Buildings Culture And Environment

Author : Richard Lorch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780470758816

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Buildings, Culture and Environment by Richard Lorch Pdf

With accelerating change towards globalisation, the efficacy of design solutions not embedded within regional culture has been prone to failure - technically, socially and economically. Environmental problems and questions surrounding how to achieve a sustainable built environment are now posing urgent challenges to built environment practitioners and researcher. However, international cooperation in setting targets and standards as well as an increasing exchange of environmental information and practices present designers, clients and occupants with new problems that comprise local needs and the built environment. This book addresses the role regional culture play in the successful (or otherwise) process of exchanging and adapting environmental practices and standards in the built environment. Using the specific case of the design of environmentally sound buildings, the book identifies a number of issues from different perspectives: The conflict between regionally appropriate environmental building practices within a global technical and economic context. How human, social and cultural expectations limit technological advances and performance improvements. To what extent information on environmentally progressive buildings can be transferred across cultures without compromising regional and local practices. Which ideas travel successfully between regions – generic principles, specific ideas or specific solutions? How the idea of regional identity is being redefined as the process of globalisation both widens and accelerates.

Author : Ulrich Pfammatter
Publisher : Dom Pub
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3869222824

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Building for a Changing Culture and Climate by Ulrich Pfammatter Pdf

The author of this book aims to encourage an awareness of sustainability as it is implemented across all areas of planning and design, and the ability to think and act on this knowledge. This book will explore in genuine depth the sustainable strategies that could be applied, along with the practical work of key figures in the built environment, setting these against historical experiences and traditional cultures. It also aimes to revive the discourse around these subjects. Achieving this will require the involvement of architects and structural, energy and environmental engineers, construction businesses and specialists, research institutes and universities. The five chapters and 333 show-cased projects reflect important stages in the architectural and engineering-based design process, stages which need to be addressed when dealing with sustainable strategies in the built environment.

Author : Anthony D. King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781135795283

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Buildings and Society by Anthony D. King Pdf

Buildings are essentially social and cultural products. They result from social needs and accommodate a variety of functions - economic. social. political. religious. Their size. appearance. location and form result not simply from physical factors such as mat­erials. climate or technology. nor from architects· designs. but from a society's ideas. its forms of economic and social organisation. and the beliefs and values which prevail at any one time. Society produces its buildings and the buildings help to maintain many of its social forms.

Author : Donald E. Mulligan,Kraig Knutson
Publisher : Stipes Publishing Company
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1588743470

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Construction And Culture by Donald E. Mulligan,Kraig Knutson Pdf

Author : Amos Rapoport
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0816511764

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The Meaning of the Built Environment by Amos Rapoport Pdf

The Meaning of the Built Environment is a lively illustrated study of the meanings of everyday buildings for their users. Professor Rapoport uses examples and vignettes, drawn from many cultures and historical eras as well as contemporary America, to explicate a new framework for understanding how the built environment comes to have meaning, both for individual people and whole societies.

Author : David Oakley
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781483279428

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The Phenomenon of Architecture in Cultures in Change by David Oakley Pdf

The Phenomenon of Architecture in Cultures in Change focuses on the study of architectural design and its impact in the developing world. The book first elaborates on architectural function and problems and building problems. Discussions focus on a unified form of classification to characterize building context, architecture and society, development process and the building process, understanding of architectural form, and exploring architecture. The text then ponders on economy, intentions, ideas, and method in design. Topics include method in design work, formal articulation and architectural expression, synthesis of critical approaches, architectural ideas, search for system in design work, and economy and the design process. The manuscript examines education and architecture and community, as well as urbanizing rural region, residential urban renewal, and town design service. The book is a dependable source of data for architects and researchers interested in the phenomenon of architecture.

Author : Sim Van der Ryn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134632961

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Culture, Architecture and Nature by Sim Van der Ryn Pdf

Gathering his most compelling essays and addresses from the last fifty years in one accessible volume, this book looks at the pioneering ideas that underpin Sim Van der Ryn’s ecological design philosophy. It offers a unique decade-by-decade retrospective of the key issues in environmental design, beginning with the most recent years and looking back to the 1960s. With an introductory chapter and further recommended reading for each decade, this book is key reading for any architect or designer practising today, and students will find a wealth of knowledge with which to support their studies. The author’s beautiful illustrations, painted in a corresponding timescale to the chapters, offer further insight into the way he understands the challenges of humanity’s stewardship of our planet.

Author : Koç, Gül?ah,Christiansen, Bryan
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781522569961

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Reusable and Sustainable Building Materials in Modern Architecture by Koç, Gül?ah,Christiansen, Bryan Pdf

Designing buildings and physical environments depends on social structure, social needs, economic data, environment, and technological development. Planning these environments is heavily influenced by cultural and regional need, the existing environment, and the materials available. Reusable and Sustainable Building Materials in Modern Architecture is an essential reference source that discusses the shaping of building design through culture and materials as well as the influence of environment on building design. Featuring research on topics such as passive design, ecological design, and urban design, this book is ideal for academicians, specialists, and researchers seeking coverage on culture, environment, and building design.

Author : Norman Crowe,Richard Economakis,Michael Lykoudis
Publisher : Artmediaco
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015049542346

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Building Cities by Norman Crowe,Richard Economakis,Michael Lykoudis Pdf

Examines the social and environmental problems of our time, offering a holistic way of thinking about human interaction and its relationship to the built environment. The book outlines how traditional principles of urbanism support and sustain human cultures in cities, bringing together the issues of how we build and live together from architectural, political and technical perspectives. It contains eight essays and 62 projects.

Author : Howard Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780195305937

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The Culture of Building by Howard Davis Pdf

"In this book of thirteen chapters, Howard Davis uses historical, contemporary, and cross-cultural examples to describe the nature and influence of these cultures. He shows how building cultures reflect the general cultures in which they exist, how they have changed over history, how they affect the form of buildings and cities, and how present building cultures, which are responsible for the contemporary everyday environments, may be improved."--Jacket.

Author : Nick Heffernan,David A. Wragg
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527551329

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Culture, Environment and Ecopolitics by Nick Heffernan,David A. Wragg Pdf

Culture, Environment and Ecopolitics brings together a series of new reflections on historical and current ecological and environmental predicaments. By way of critical interventions in environmental thought, and through engagements with literary, visual, architectural, philosophical, and more general cultural studies scholarship, this collection of essays by an international panel of writers breaks new interpretative ground. While techno-science has in some quarters been elevated to a master discourse of humanity’s salvation, charged with providing a magical ‘fix’ for planetary ecological dilemmas, the focus of our volume is on the importance of cultural reflection for bringing matters of local and global import to light. Moving from the abstractions of eco-critical utopianisms to the concrete identity of the land in the poetry of John Clare, from British Petroleum’s attempts to re-brand climate change to examples of eco-architecture, and much more besides, these essays exemplify ways in which eco-political thought and practice might now be theorized. The collection is framed by a substantial editors’ introduction which offers but one contextualization of the ideas and critical trajectories that follow. Culture, Environment and Ecopolitics will allow readers to discover original intersections and argumentative cross-references across contested terrains in a world increasingly troubled by ecological crises.

Author : Tom Collier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135822736

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Design, Technology and the Development Process in the Built Environment by Tom Collier Pdf

This second book in the BEST (the Built Environment Series of Textbooks) series explores the fundamental generators and contextual issues - philosophical, physical and political - that influence built environments.

Author : Sebastian Macmillan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134376995

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Designing Better Building by Sebastian Macmillan Pdf

Design is widely recognised as the key to improving the quality of the built environment. This well-illustrated book comprises 15 chapters written by leading practitioners, clients, academics and other experts, and presents the latest thinking on what design quality is and how to achieve it. For design practitioners and their clients alike, the book provides evidence to justify greater focus on, and investment in, design. It summarises the benefits that arise from good design - such as, civic pride in the urban environment, the stimulation of urban regeneration, corporate identity, occupant productivity and health in offices, improved learning outcomes in schools, better patient recovery rates in hospitals, as well as reduced environmental impact. And it illustrates these benefits through case study examples. Eight chapters focus on case studies of exemplary buildings in particular sectors - offices, schools, housing, and hospitals - and explain why and how they came to be designed, and the design qualities they exhibit.

Author : Fariborz Haghighat,Jong-Jin Kim
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781848260610

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Sustainable Built Environment - Volume II by Fariborz Haghighat,Jong-Jin Kim Pdf

Sustainable Built Environment is a component of Encyclopedia of Technology, Information, and Systems Management Resources in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. Environmental conservation and technological innovation are two principal forces that drive the building industry toward the future. Technological innovation offers many opportunities to make buildings more dynamic and comfortable, and occupants more comfortable and productive. The necessity of environmental conservation, on the other hand, compels all types of developments and human activities to be environmentally responsive. The content of the Theme on Sustainable Built Environment is organized with state-of-the-art presentations covering several topics: Urban Design ; Emerging Issues in Building Design; Environment, Energy and Health in Housing Design; Culture, Management Strategies, and Policy Issues in the Sustainable Built Environment; Using Technology to Improve the Quality of City Life; Urban and Regional Transportation, which are then expanded into multiple subtopics, each as a chapter. These two volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.

Author : Sharon B. Jaffe,Rob Fleming,Mark Karlen,Saglinda H Roberts
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781119443735

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Sustainable Design Basics by Sharon B. Jaffe,Rob Fleming,Mark Karlen,Saglinda H Roberts Pdf

An accessible, climate-diverse guide that transforms readers from sustainable design novices to whole-solution problem solvers. Sustainable Design Basics is a student-friendly introduction to a holistic and integral view of sustainable design. Comprehensive in scope, this textbook presents basic technical information, sustainability strategies, and a practical, step-by-step approach for sustainable building projects. Clear and relatable chapters illustrate how to identify the factors that reduce energy use, solve specific sustainable design problems, develop holistic design solutions, and address the social and cultural aspects of sustainable design. Requiring no prior knowledge of the subject, the text’s easy-to-follow methodology leads readers through the fundamental sustainable design principles for the built environment. Sustainably-constructed and maintained buildings protect the health and improve the productivity of their occupants, as well as help to restore the global ecosystem. The authors, leading practitioners and educators in sustainable design, have created a resource that provides a solid introduction to broad level sustainability thinking that students can take forward into their professional practice. Topics include space planning for sustainable design, integrative and collaborative design, standards and rating systems, real-world strategies to conserve energy and resources through leveraging renewable natural resources and innovative construction techniques and their impact on our environment. Usable and useful both in and beyond the classroom, this book: Covers building location strategies, building envelopes and structures, integration of passive and active systems, green materials, and project presentation Examines cultural factors, social equity, ecological systems, and aesthetics Provides diverse student exercises that vary by climate, geography, setting, perspective, and typology Features a companion website containing extensive instructor resources Sustainable Design Basics is an important resource aimed at undergraduate architecture and interior design students, or first-year graduate students, as well as design professionals wishing to integrate sustainable design knowledge and techniques into their practice.