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How long does it take to read The Architecture of the Well-tempered Environment?

Reyner Banham

The Architecture of the Well-tempered Environment by Reyner Banham takes about 5 hours 51 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 51 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1969. 319 pages, about 87,725 words.

12 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 9 hours 45 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 51 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 39 minutes

The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

"Reyner Banham was a pioneer in arguing that technology, human needs, and environmental concerns must be considered an integral part of architecture. No historian before him had so systematically explored the impact of environmental engineering on the design of buildings and in the minds of architects. In this revision of his classic work, Banham has added considerable new material on the use of energy, particularly solar energy, in human environments. Included in the new material are discussions of Indian pueblos and solar architecture, the Centre Pompidou and other high-tech buildings, and the environmental wisdom of many current architectural vernaculars."--From back cover.

Subjects: Architecture, Modern, Buildings, Environmental engineering, Modern Architecture, Architecture, history

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