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PROVENCE, NORMAN FOSTER'S BELOVED -WITH A CRITIQUE ON HIGH-TECH AND ITS CONSIDERATION ON CLIMATE

2000; Routledge; Linguagem: Inglês

1002-4832

Wang Pen,

Architecture, Modernity, and Design

Since the energy crisis in the 1970s the sustainable ideology, such as preserving energy and resources reducing pollution, has become the cruciol consideration in architecture design, High-Tech, whose main character was monifesting modern technology is in scarch of the integration with native culture and local climate, cud forms a set of special views on climate, that is a way from High-Tech to Eco-Tech. The Carre d'Art in Nimes and the Regional Secondary School in Frejus designed by British architect Norman Foster were located in Provence. France. where there is extraordinary native custom and vivid local climate, Besided paying much attention to the harmony with urban context and natural environment the architect made many aspiring explorations in the fields of architectural lighting, shading, natural venfilation and so on, All these ottempts provided substantial groundwork for the later world known projects. the Commerzbank Headquarters in Frankfurt and the New German Parlliament in Berlin.