Différens projets relatifs au climat : et a la maniere la plus convenable de bâtir dans les pays chauds, et plus particulierement dans les Indes Occidentales
An 18th-century French architectural treatise by d'Albaret and Claude René Gabriel Polleau, published in Paris in 1776, on designing buildings suited to hot climates, especially the West Indies. Its engraved plates show plans, elevations and sections of colonial houses with their rooms, walls and openings laid out in precise line work. A designer could take from them the clean orthographic drawing style, with cross-sections revealing interior volumes, and the open colonnaded porches and ventilated layouts meant to cool a tropical dwelling.
