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Author : Kristin Feireiss
Publisher : Die Gestalten Verlag
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3899552113
Outstanding architectural projects that contribute to an environmentally sustainable future.
Author : Sofie Pelsmakers,Nick Newman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000375435
Want to keep up with emerging design thinking and issues worldwide? Design Studio is a new thematic series that distils the most topical work and ideas from schools and practices globally. The first volume launches with a statement: Everything Needs to Change. Exploring architecture and the climate emergency, editors Sofie Pelsmakers (author of Environmental Design Sourcebook) and Nick Newman (climate activist and Director at Studio Bark), are channelling the message of Greta Thunberg to inspire, enthuse and inform the next generation of architects. Featuring articles, building profiles and case studies from a range of leading voices, it explores solutions to climatic, environmental and social challenges. It urges readers to radically rethink what it means to be an architect in an era of climate crisis, and what the role of the architect is or can be. Discover how using local materials, working with nature, radical design processes, transformative learning and activism can help us find hope in the burning world. Together, we can force change for a more sustainable and equitable tomorrow. This first volume is produced in four unique fluorescent colours – green, red, yellow and purple – to be your own poster for change.
Author : Dr Dean Hawkes,Dean Hawkes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136741081
This text brings together a unique collection of writing by a leading researcher and critic which outlines the evolution of the environmental dimension of architectural theory and practice in the past twenty-five years. It deals with the transformation of the environmental design field which was brought about by the growth of energy awareness in the 1970s and 1980s, and places environmental issues in the broader theoretical and historical context in architecture.
Author : Elsa Lam,Graham Livesey
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781616898830
Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) President's Medal Award (multi-media representation of architecture). Canada's most distinguished architectural critics and scholars offer fresh insights into the country's unique modern and contemporary architecture. Beginning with the nation's centennial and Expo 67 in Montreal, this fifty-year retrospective covers the defining of national institutions and movements: • How Canadian architects interpreted major external trends • Regional and indigenous architectural tendencies • The influence of architects in Canada's three largest cities: Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver Co-published with Canadian Architect, this comprehensive reference book is extensively illustrated and includes fifteen specially commissioned essays.
Author : Reyner Banham
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780226825885
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 on 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.
Author : David Lloyd Jones
Publisher : Bilimsel Eserler
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015047125748
'Green' architecture has commonly been seen as separate from mainstream architecture and has been accorded the status of worthy but dull design. David Lloyd Jones seeks to correct this judgement, as he showcases 44 contemporary projects.
Author : Koen Steemers,Mary Ann Steane
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architectural Design
ISBN : 9780415314787
This book takes the position that the dynamic of the architectural environment is a key aspect of good design, yet one which is not well anticipated or understood. Environmental variety is a design characteristic closely related to our experience of architecture - an architecture of the senses. Each chapter demonstrates how an understanding of a particular context or environmental characteristic in dynamic terms informs design. The book is an antidote to the misconceptions of 'optimum' environmental performance or fixed criteria, instead embracing the richness of environmental variety.
Author : Daniel A. Barber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691248653
How climate influenced the design strategies of modernist architects Modern Architecture and Climate explores how leading architects of the twentieth century incorporated climate-mediating strategies into their designs, and shows how regional approaches to climate adaptability were essential to the development of modern architecture. Focusing on the period surrounding World War II—before fossil-fuel powered air-conditioning became widely available—Daniel Barber brings to light a vibrant and dynamic architectural discussion involving design, materials, and shading systems as means of interior climate control. He looks at projects by well-known architects such as Richard Neutra, Le Corbusier, Lúcio Costa, Mies van der Rohe, and Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, and the work of climate-focused architects such as MMM Roberto, Olgyay and Olgyay, and Cliff May. Drawing on the editorial projects of James Marston Fitch, Elizabeth Gordon, and others, he demonstrates how images and diagrams produced by architects helped conceptualize climate knowledge, alongside the work of meteorologists, physicists, engineers, and social scientists. Barber describes how this novel type of environmental media catalyzed new ways of thinking about climate and architectural design. Extensively illustrated with archival material, Modern Architecture and Climate provides global perspectives on modern architecture and its evolving relationship with a changing climate, showcasing designs from Latin America, Europe, the United States, the Middle East, and Africa. This timely and important book reconciles the cultural dynamism of architecture with the material realities of ever-increasing carbon emissions from the mechanical cooling systems of buildings and offers a historical foundation for today’s zero-carbon design.
Author : Dean Hawkes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0415561876
This book traces the evolving relationship between the architecture and climate of Britain from the late sixteenth century to the twentieth century. Through detailed studies of buildings by major architects it explores how the unique character of the climate of the British Isles has had a fundamental influence on the nature of buildings of all kinds and periods, in both country and city. The discussion connects architectural history to the developing field of climate history and makes further connection with the representation of the climate in literature and fine art. The book is copiously illustrated with drawings and photographs.
Author : Stamatina Th. Rassia,Panos M. Pardalos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781441907455
Over the last few decades, there have been dramatic improvements in the understanding and research of environmental design. Numerous methods have been developed to enhance architectural design in order for it to be more energy efficient, sustainable and health enhancing. This book presents several theories and techniques that can be used to improve how buildings are engineered and designed in order to utilize more sustainable construction methods while promoting the health of the building's occupants. Contributions to the study of environmental design have come from a diversity of fields including applied mathematics, optimization, computer science, medical research, psychology, management science, architecture, and engineering. The techniques developed in these areas of research can be used to increase building performance, occupant satisfaction, productivity, and well being, and reducing the incidence of health conditions and chronic diseases related to the use of a designed space. This book provides architectural practitioners, civil engineers as well as other interdisciplinary researchers with the techniques needed to design, implement, and test for sustainability and health promotion in new or existing structures.
Author : Mary Ann Steane,Koen Steemers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134378661
This book takes the position that the dynamic of the architectural environment is a key aspect of good design, yet one which is not well anticipated or understood. Environmental variety is a design characteristic closely related to our experience of architecture - an architecture of the senses. Each chapter demonstrates how an understanding of a particular context or environmental characteristic in dynamic terms informs design. The book is an antidote to the misconceptions of 'optimum' environmental performance or fixed criteria, instead embracing the richness of environmental variety.
Author : Randall Thomas,Trevor Garnham
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134236077
This well-illustrated 'think piece' provides a much needed and topical philosophical introduction to the place of environmental design in architecture. The Environments of Architecture sets out a range of considerations necessary to produce appropriate internal environments in the context of a wider discussion on the effect of building decisions on the broader environment. The authors, from architecture and engineering, academia and practice, provide a rounded and well-balanced introduction to this important topic. Starting from a belief that the built environment can contribute more positively to the planet and the pleasure of places as well as answering the practical demands of comfort, they cover site planning, form, materials, construction and operation as well as looking at design on a city level. Presenting a thoughtful and stimulating approach to the built environment, this book forms an excellent guide for practitioners, students and academics concerned with our built environment.
Author : Nick Baker,Koen Steemers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135811181
This technical guide deals with environmental issues facing every architect at the concept stage of designing a building. This includes determining the energy use for lighting, heating, cooling and ventilation.
Author : Stamatina Th. Rassia
Publisher : Springer
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319534442
This concise volume analyzes the potential for the workplace environment—where so many people spend so much of their day—to improve workers’ capacity for health and wellness. It pinpoints the link between sedentary lifestyles and poor health, and explores the role of office spatial design in encouraging physical activity to promote physical activity, health and prevent disease. The featured research study tracks workers’ movement in a variety of office layouts, addressing possible ways movement-friendly design can co-exist with wireless communication, paperless offices, and new corporate concepts of productivity. From these findings, the author’s conclusions extend public health concepts to recognize that influencing population-wide levels of activity through office architectural design alone may be possible. This SpringerBrief is comprised of chapters on : Physical activity and disease: Theory and practice Space-use and the history of the office building Identifying factors of the office architectural design that influence movement, Interdisciplinary research methods in studying worker physical activity, decision-making and office design characteristics The KINESIS model for simulating physical activity in office environments The questions and potential for solutions in Workplace Environmental Design in Architecture for Public Health will interest and inform researchers in interdisciplinary topics of public health and architecture as well as graduate and post-graduate students, architects, economists, managers, businesses as well as health-conscious readers.
Author : Derek Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136428678
This well illustrated text forms a critical appraisal of the place and direction of architecture and urban design in a new world order at the start of the 21st century. The book defines architectural and environmental goals for the New Age by analysing recent contemporary work for its responsiveness to important social and environmental issues and comparing it to successful precedents in architecture. It argues that this new sustainable approach to architecture should be recognised as a new development of mainstream architectural history. This practical guide illustrates current social and natural resource issues to aid architects in their approach to future design. Environmental economics is presented as a potential bridge over the divide between the expectations of the business sector and the concerns of environmental lobbies. Through examples and case studies, an accessible analysis of carefully researched data, drawn from primary sources over four continents, allows the author to outline the current urgency for architects and urban designers to respond with real commitment to current and future changing contexts. This book expresses a holistic vision and proposes a value system in response to the diagnosis. It includes: sound architectural and environmental ethics; end user involvement in the design process and technological advances aimed at sustainable resource use. Includes international case studies from Europe, North America, the Developing world including South Africa, South America and Central Asia.