Buildings are non-isolated, transient structures of dissipation : a reckoning in the form of an introduction -- A history of heat transfer in buildings -- A material history of insulation in modernity -- Physiology, insulation, climate, and pedagogy -- The architecture of dissipation -- A dissipative epilogue : breathing walls / by Salmaan Craig -- Conclusion : the metabolic rift, gift & shift of architecture's necessary excess.
