Architecture And The Urban Environment

Author : Derek Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136428661

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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.

Author : MR Derek Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 062057755X

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Architecture and the Urban Environment - Holistic Design, forms a critical appraisal of the place and direction of architecture and urban design in the new world order, a decade into the 21st Century. This philosophical and practical source book highlights current social, cultural, natural and technological resource issues and aims to assist architects, urban designers and landscape architects - and those in training - to synthesise the elements of holistic and sustainable design.

Author : Susan Larson
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789384893

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Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film by Susan Larson Pdf

The first edited collection in English on urban space and architecture in Spanish film from 1896 to the present. Building on existing film and urban histories, this collection examines Spanish film through contemporary interdisciplinary theories of urban space, the built environment, visuality, and mass culture from the industrial age to the digital present. Architecture and Urbanism in Spanish Film brings together innovative scholarship from an international and interdisciplinary group of film, architecture, and urban studies scholars as they explore the reciprocal relationship between the seventh art and the built environment. The contributors explore a wide range of topics, including the role of film in the shifting relationship between private and public; the ways cinema as a new technology reshaped how cities and buildings are built and inhabited; the question of the mobile gaze; film and everyday life; monumentality and the construction of historical memory for a variety of viewing publics; and the effects of the digital and the virtual on filmmaking and spectatorship. This engaging collection will interest anyone researching, teaching, and studying Spanish film, international film studies, urban, and cultural studies.

Author : Martin Krampen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCSC:32106007170928

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Meaning in the Urban Environment by Martin Krampen Pdf

Author : Shaimaa Kamel,Hanan Sabry,Ghada F. Hassan,Mostafa Refat,Abeer Elshater,Ahmed S. Abd Elrahman,Doaa K. Hassan,Rowaida Rashed
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030525842

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Architecture and Urbanism: A Smart Outlook by Shaimaa Kamel,Hanan Sabry,Ghada F. Hassan,Mostafa Refat,Abeer Elshater,Ahmed S. Abd Elrahman,Doaa K. Hassan,Rowaida Rashed Pdf

This proceedings addresses the challenges of urbanization that gravely affect the world’s ecosystems. To become efficiently sustainable and regenerative, buildings and cities need to adopt smart solutions. This book discusses innovations of the built environment while depicting how such practices can transform future buildings and urban areas into places of higher value and quality. The book aims to examine the interrelationship between people, nature and technology, which is essential in pursuing smart environments that optimize human wellbeing, motivation and vitality, as well as promoting cohesive and inclusive societies: Urban Sociology - Community Involvement - Place-making and Cultural Continuity – Environmental Psychology - Smart living - Just City. The book presents exemplary practical experiences that reflect smart strategies, technologies and innovations, by established and emerging professionals, provides a forum of real-life discourse. The primary audience for the work will be from the fields of architecture, urban planning and built-environment systems, including multi-disciplinary academics as well as professionals.

Author : Jean-Claude Marsan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1990-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773580374

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Montreal in Evolution by Jean-Claude Marsan Pdf

Montreal in Evolution presents the rich and complex history of Montreal's architectural and environmental development from the first fort of Ville-Marie to the skyscrapers of today. It also examines the forces which shaped the city during the past three hundred and fifty years.

Author : Kevin Thwaites,Sergio Porta,Ombretta Romice,Mark Greaves
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134157686

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Urban Sustainability Through Environmental Design by Kevin Thwaites,Sergio Porta,Ombretta Romice,Mark Greaves Pdf

Urban Sustainability through Environmental Design provides the analytical tools and practical methodologies that can be employed for sustainable and long-term solutions to the design and management of urban environments.

Author : Mir M. Ali,Paul J. Armstrong
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : MINN:31951D01176553Z

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Architecture of Tall Buildings by Mir M. Ali,Paul J. Armstrong Pdf

Author : Paul L. Knox
Publisher : Virginia Tech Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781949373325

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Better By Design? by Paul L. Knox Pdf

The design professions—architecture, city planning, landscape architecture, and urban design—share a great deal in terms of intellectual antecedents, professional ideals, and praxis. In particular, they share a commitment to creating better cities—whether at the scale of buildings, neighborhoods, or city-regions. But who decides what constitutes a “good” city, and how should such an ideal be implemented? In Better by Design? Paul Knox explores the intellectual roots of the design professions, showing how architects, planners, and other designers have traditionally interpreted their roles and implemented their ideas in cities across North America and the UK. Drawing on his long record of research and award-winning publications on the social production of the built environment, Knox offers a critical appraisal of their ultimate effectiveness in achieving the goal of creating and sustaining good cities.

Author : Mat Santamouris
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781849771160

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Environmental Design of Urban Buildings by Mat Santamouris Pdf

The importance of an integrated approach in urban design is becoming increasingly apparent. This book explains how to overcome related challenges in environmental design of urban buildings and offers guidance on the use of new materials and techniques and the integration of new philosophies. Supported by the EC's SAVE 13 programme, Environmental Design of Urban Buildings includes contributions from experts at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, the Hellenic Open University, Greece, Cambridge Architectural Research, UK and REHVA/University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. A free CD-ROM containing multi-media software tools and climatic data accompanies the book. CONTENTS Environmental Urban Design * Architectural Design, Passive Environmental and Building Engineering Systems * Environmental Issues of Building Design * Sustainable Design, Construction and Operation * Intelligent Controls and Advanced Building Management Systems * Urban Building Climatology * Heat and Mass Transfer Phenomena in Urban Buildings * Applied Lighting Technologies for Urban Buildings * Case Studies * Guidelines to Integrate Energy Conservation * Indoor Air Quality * Applied Energy and Resources Management in the Urban Environment * Economic Methodologies * Integrated Building Design * Bibliography, Index Published with SAVE

Author : Kevin Lynch
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1964-06-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262620014

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The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch Pdf

The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.

Author : Aldo Rossi
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1984-09-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262680432

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The Architecture of the City by Aldo Rossi Pdf

Aldo Rossi was a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza and one of the most influential theorists of the twentieth century. The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a protest against functionalism and the Modern Movement, in part an attempt to restore the craft of architecture to its position as the only valid object of architectural study, and in part an analysis of the rules and forms of the city's construction, the book has become immensely popular among architects and design students.

Author : Davide Ponzini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351847230

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Transnational Architecture and Urbanism by Davide Ponzini Pdf

Transnational Architecture and Urbanism combines urban planning, design, policy, and geography studies to offer place-based and project-oriented insight into relevant case studies of urban transformation in Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East. Since the 1990s, increasingly multinational modes of design have arisen, especially concerning prominent buildings and places. Traditional planning and design disciplines have proven to have limited comprehension of, and little grip on, such transformations. Public and scholarly discussions argue that these projects and transformations derive from socioeconomic, political, cultural trends or conditions of globalization. The author suggests that general urban theories are relevant as background, but of limited efficacy when dealing with such context-bound projects and policies. This book critically investigates emerging problematic issues such as the spectacularization of the urban environment, the decontextualization of design practice, and the global circulation of plans and projects. The book portends new conceptualizations, evidence-based explanations, and practical understanding for architects, planners, and policy makers to critically learn from practice, to cope with these transnational issues, and to put better planning in place.

Author : Pier Vittorio Aureli
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262515795

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The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture by Pier Vittorio Aureli Pdf

Architectural form reconsidered in light of a unitary conception of architecture and the city. In The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Pier Vittorio Aureli proposes that a sharpened formal consciousness in architecture is a precondition for political, cultural, and social engagement with the city. Aureli uses the term absolute not in the conventional sense of “pure,” but to denote something that is resolutely itself after being separated from its other. In the pursuit of the possibility of an absolute architecture, the other is the space of the city, its extensive organization, and its government. Politics is agonism through separation and confrontation; the very condition of architectural form is to separate and be separated. Through its act of separation and being separated, architecture reveals at once the essence of the city and the essence of itself as political form: the city as the composition of (separate) parts. Aureli revisits the work of four architects whose projects were advanced through the making of architectural form but whose concern was the city at large: Andrea Palladio, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Étienne Louis-Boullée, and Oswald Mathias Ungers. The work of these architects, Aureli argues, addressed the transformations of the modern city and its urban implications through the elaboration of specific and strategic architectural forms. Their projects for the city do not take the form of an overall plan but are expressed as an “archipelago” of site-specific interventions.

Author : Eberhard H. Zeidler
Publisher : New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015008058466

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Architecture Multifonctionnelle : 34 Exemples Internationaux by Eberhard H. Zeidler Pdf