Theory
Climatic Modernism
Explore in the Atlas →Barber's revisionist history of modern architecture as a climate-mediating, envelope-based design culture displaced by mechanical air-conditioning.
Climate Tectonics Knowledge
Details
- Introduced
- 2020
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- Observation
- Subject
- More than human
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Referenced by
- Daniel A. Barber proposed
- Modern Architecture and Climate articulates
Sources
- Princeton UP. n.d.. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691170039/modern-architecture-and-climate.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Climatic Modernism." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/theory/climatic-modernism/. Accessed July 17, 2026.