Title & Author:

Intelligent Buildings / [presented by] Mike Davies (Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners).

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1987.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (27 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Mike Davies -- Top: Egyptian Fresco. Bottom: The Moon Seen From Apollo Spacecraft -- Top: Electric Micrometer. Bottom: Sonic Tape -- Solar Furnace In Pyrenees -- Chateau Chinon -- Top: Meaux Chocolate Factory At Noisiel, France. Bottom: Palm House, Kew Gardens, London -- Bristol Railway Station By Isambard Kingdom Brunel -- Villa Savoie At Poissy, France, By Le Corbusier -- Chareau House, Paris -- Glass Tower Drawing By Mies Van Der Rohe -- Top: Fiat Building, Paris. Bottom: Hyatt Hotel, Dallas, By John Portman -- Willis Faber Building, Ipswich, UK, By Foster Associates -- Pompidou Centre, Paris, By Richard Rogers Partnership -- Left: Katsura Imperial Palace, Japan. Right: Lloyds Of London, By Richard Rogers Partnership -- Top: Inmos Building, Newport, Wales. Bottom: PA Technology Center, Princeton, New Jersey. Both By Richard Rogers Partnership -- Top: Billingsgate Building, By Richard Rogers Partnership. Bottom: Materials -- Sophisticated Louvre Systems -- Solar Control Devices. Top: Freon Driven. Bottom: Standard Product -- Steve Baer's House, Corrales, Near Albuquerque, New Mexico -- Kitt Peak Solar Telescope, By Myron Goldstein, SOM -- Lloyds Of London. West Side & Section -- Building Energy Management -- Electrochromic Glass & Its Effect On A Building Facade.

Summary:

The British architect Mike Davies studied architecture at the AA School of Architecture and at UCLA. While in Los Angeles, he was a partner in Chrysalis, a multi-disciplinary design practice. In 1972 he joined Piano & Rogers to work on the Centre Pompidou and Pierre Boulez's IRCAM. He has remained with Rogers and is a director of the Richard Rogers Partnership in London. He has taught at many schools of architecture in Europe, Asia and America. His passion is astronomy and making telescopes and visiting the world's largest ones. His speciality in the partnership being the impact of technology on buildings, he describes its development through time, leading to the sophisticated building energy management systems of today (as in the Lloyds of London building). The climax is a new development for façades of building, an electrochromic panel which changes its transparency and transmission properties under the control of a very small electric current. He envisages that its use, combined with the present energy management systems will lead to the production of the intelligent building.

Subject:

Architecture and technology.
Architecture et technologie.

Added entries:

Davies, Michael, 1957- narrator.