Dustin Valen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5943762 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dustin Valen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dustin |
| FAMILY NAME | Valen |
| SIGNATURE | VALEN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Corner Windows and Cul-de-sacs
Toward an Architecture of Air and Steam
This essay highlights how nineteenth-century epidemic diseases catalyzed environmental thinking in architecture by examining air and vapor bathing technologies and their role in transmitting environmental medical principles into British building culture. Vapor baths were popular medical devices used to fortify a patient’s health by passing hot or cold air charged with steam over the skin, a vital membrane through which impurities were thought to …
Imperial Atmospheres
This essay explores how nineteenth-century environmental technologies rendered climates mobile through an examination of a British-led mission to the Niger River in West Africa in 1841. To protect white sailors from the tropical African climate, expedition authorities invited Scottish ventilation engineer David Boswell Reid to consult on the design of three iron steam ships. Using a centralized air intake connected to a wind sail, Reid created a …
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Imperial Atmospheres
This essay explores how nineteenth-century environmental technologies rendered climates mobile through an examination of a British-led mission to the Niger River in West Africa in 1841. To protect white sailors from the tropical African climate, expedition authorities invited Scottish ventilation engineer David Boswell Reid to consult on the design of three iron steam ships. Using a centralized air intake connected to a wind sail, Reid created a …
Toward an Architecture of Air and Steam
This essay highlights how nineteenth-century epidemic diseases catalyzed environmental thinking in architecture by examining air and vapor bathing technologies and their role in transmitting environmental medical principles into British building culture. Vapor baths were popular medical devices used to fortify a patient’s health by passing hot or cold air charged with steam over the skin, a vital membrane through which impurities were thought to …
Corner Windows and Cul-de-sacs
History (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Architectural engineering (1 work) · Architecture (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Bathing (1 work) · Canadian Identity and History (1 work) · Civilization (1 work)