The Architect and the Academy Essays on Research and Environment

This book presents an expansive overview of the development of architectural and environmental research, with authoritative essays spanning Dean Hawkes’ impressive 50-year academic career. The book considers the relationship between the technologies of the environment and wider historical and theoretical factors, with chapters on topics ranging from the origins of modern ‘building science’ in Renaissance England to technology and imagination in architecture. It includes numerous architectural examples from renowned architects such as Christopher Wren, Peter Zumthor, Alvar Aalto, Robert Venturi and Carlo Scarpa. Aimed at students, scholars, and researchers in architecture and beyond, this illustrated volume collates important and wide-ranging essays tracing the definition, scope and methodologies of architectural and environmental studies, with a foreword by Susannah Hagan.

Foreword bySusannah Hagan Acknowledgements Introduction Essay 1. The centre and the periphery: Some reflections on the nature and conduct of architectural research Essay 2. The architect and the academy Essay 3. The shaping of architectural research Essay 4. Bridging the cultures: Architecture, models and computers in 1960s Cambridge Essay 5. The environment of the Elizabethan house: Hardwick Hall Essay 6. The origins of building science in the architecture of Renaissance England Essay 7: The measureable and the unmeasureable of daylight design Essay 8. The selective environment: Environmental design and cultural identity Essay 9. The technical imagination: Thoughts on the relation of technique and design in architecture Essay 10. Typology versus invention: Acoustics and the architecture of music performance Essay 11. Musical affinities: Aalto and Kokkonen, Scarpa and Nono Bibliography Index

Dean Hawkes has been a teacher, researcher and practitioner of architecture for over half a century. For 30 years he taught and researched in the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge and, between 1995 and 2002, was professor of architectural design at the Welsh School of Architecture at Cardiff University. Following his retirement, he returned to Cambridge as a fellow of Darwin College, where he continues to research and teach. He retired from architectural practice in 2010. His research focusses on the relationship between technics and poetics in architecture and is principally concerned with questions of environmental design. The essays collected in this book range across this broad field, covering two distinct themes: The Culture and Origins of Architectural Research and Themes in the Architecture of Environment. Together these complement the author’s series of Routledge books: The Environmental Tradition (1996), The Selective Environment (2001), The Environmental Imagination (1st ed. 2008, 2nd ed. 2019) and Architecture and Climate (2012).