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Author : Fred Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134370696
In his new text, Fred Scott brings together ideas of what might constitute a theory of interior, or interventional design.
Author : Sofie Pelsmakers,Nick Newman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Peter Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135139766
Focusing on the recently introduced compulsory course element on sustainability in architecture, the book outlines all of the arguments and provides a comprehensive source of information. The author's insider knowledge of the curriculum structure provides you with an invaluable companion to the new section of the course work. An outline seminar is included allowing the student to relate the theories of sustainability to the practice of study. The professional will also benefit from its focus on the practical translation of sustainable theory. He calls for changes in the way we build. For change to be widely accepted there have to be convincing reasons why long established practices should be replaced. In the first part of the book he sets out those reasons by arguing that there is convincing evidence that climate changes now under way are primarily due to human activity in releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Buildings are particularly implicated in this process and so it is appropriate that the design and construction process should be a prime target in the war against catastrophic climate change. The book is designed to promote a creative partnership between the professions to produce buildings which achieve optimum conditions for their inhabitants whilst making minimum demands on fossil based energy. Peter Smith has written extensively on the subject and is well known in the field. He is responsible for introducing the compulsory sustainable element of the course in the UK. He is Chairman of the RIBA Environment and Energy Committee, the RIBA Sustainable Features Committee and Vice Chairman of the Sustainable Development Committee.
Author : Jerilou Hammett,Maggie Wrigley
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780826353863
The Architecture of Change: Building a Better World is a collection of articles that demonstrates the power of the human spirit to transform the environments in which we live. This inspiring book profiles people who refused to accept that things couldn’t change, who saw the possibility of making something better, and didn’t esitate to act. Breaking down the stereotypes surrounding “socially engaged architecture,” this book shows who can actually impact the lives of communities. Like Bernard Rudofsky’s seminal Architecture Without Architects, it explores communal architecture produced not by specialists but by people, drawing on their common lives and experiences, who have a unique insight into their particular needs and environments. These unsung heroes are teachers and artists, immigrants and activists, grandmothers in the projects, students and planners, architects and residents of some of our poorest places. Running through their stories is a constant theme of social justice as an underlying principle of the built environment. This book is about opening one’s eyes to new ways of interpreting the world, and how to go about changing it.
Author : Lisa Findley
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0415318750
This book focuses on the role architects and architecture are playing in the process of political and cultural negotiation.
Author : Christoph Grafe,Baukultur Nordrhein-Westfalen
Publisher : Kettler Verlag
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3862068056
-Conversion as an environmentally friendly alternative to new buildings -The new standard reference work in the field -Presentation and illustration of 30 pioneering case studies Conversion, adaptation, reuse - these techniques are as old as construction itself. However, since the industrialization of the building industry and the emergence of modernism in architecture, newly constructed buildings have dominated our idea of good and progressive architecture. For decades, conversion did not play a significant role in architectural practice. Today, things have changed. The industrialization of the construction industry has led to environmental degradation, and the reform potential of modernism has been exhausted. Consequently, the existing building stock is one of the resources - perhaps even the most important resource - for the transformation of our cities. Against this backdrop, the architecture of conversion has made an unexpected comeback. Young architects in particular are providing surprising answers to the environmental and social questions of our time with their conversion projects. This book introduces 30 examples that illustrate how seemingly everyday conversions can be turned into groundbreaking architecture, while eight essays shed light on the important role of conversion in history and the theory of architecture. With contributions by 51N4E, Arno Brandlhuber, Assemble, BeL, Bovenbouw, Christoph Grafe, Lacaton & Vasall, NL Architects, noA architecten, Muck Petzet, Tim Rieniets, de Vylder Vinck Tailieu, and many others.
Author : Susan Macdonald,Kyle C. Normandin,Bob Kindred
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317704904
The importance of protecting significant buildings from decay and destruction would seem to be undeniable. Yet whilst the majority of buildings of merit constructed before the Second World War have been highlighted as worthy of protection there is much indifference, and in some cases hostility towards many important post-war buildings. These deserve to receive wider formal recognition but in many cases continue to be mistreated or even demolished.This book examines many of the philosophical and practical issues surrounding the conservation of modern buildings and also the problems faced by building practitioners in dealing with buildings constructed in a wider range of styles and materials than at any other time. Climate change in particular has forced change in the way in which we think about buildings, with the pressures to address issues of energy efficiency becoming more urgent and likely to have consequences that may alter the perceived architectural and historic interest of modern and traditional buildings alike.
Author : Kristin Feireiss
Publisher : Die Gestalten Verlag
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3899552113
Outstanding architectural projects that contribute to an environmentally sustainable future.
Author : Michael Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000402100
Reality Modeled After Images: Architecture and Aesthetics after the Digital Image explores architecture’s entanglement with contemporary image culture. It looks closely at how changes produced through technologies of mediation alter disciplinary concepts and produce political effects. Through both historical and contemporary examples, it focuses on how conventions of representation are established, maintained, challenged, and transformed. Critical investigations are conjoined with inquiries into aesthetics and technology in the hope that the tensions between them can aid an exploration into how architectural images are produced, disseminated, and valued; how images alter assumptions regarding the appearances of architecture and the environment. For students and academics in architecture, design and media studies, architectural and art history, and related fields, this book shows how design is impacted and changed by shifts in image culture, representational conventions and technologies.
Author : Katie Puckett,William Gethering
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000708066
Ford architects, contractors, engineers and specialists in the field, this book uses real-world evidence from a Technology Strategy Board-funded research project to develop a set of tools for architects and other building designers to meet a growing need to anticipate future climate change. Built on in his seminal future climate change report for the TSB, identifies three broad categories of climate change impacts on building design – comfort and energy performance, construction, and managing water.
Author : Jeremy Till
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262518789
Polemics and reflections on how to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be. Architecture depends—on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this engaging, sometimes pugnacious book, cannot help itself; it is dependent for its very existence on things outside itself. Despite the claims of autonomy, purity, and control that architects like to make about their practice, architecture is buffeted by uncertainty and contingency. Circumstances invariably intervene to upset the architect's best-laid plans—at every stage in the process, from design through construction to occupancy. Architects, however, tend to deny this, fearing contingency and preferring to pursue perfection. With Architecture Depends, architect and critic Jeremy Till offers a proposal for rescuing architects from themselves: a way to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be. Mixing anecdote, design, social theory, and personal experience, Till's writing is always accessible, moving freely between high and low registers, much like his suggestions for architecture itself.
Author : David Kronenburg
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1856694615
Flexible architecture adapts to new uses, responds to change rather than stagnating, and is motive rather than static. Understanding how it has been conceived, designed, made, and used helps us understand its potential in solving current and future problems associated with technological, social, and economic change. This book explores the whole genre of fl exible architecturebuildings that are intended to respond to evolving situations in their form, operation, or location. Crossing the boundaries between architecture, interior design, product design, and furniture design, this innovative book is the first to deal with the entire scope of the topic.
Author : Bie Plevoets,Koenraad van Cleempoel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Buildings
ISBN : 1138062758
Historical background -- Intervention strategies -- Adaptive reuse for urban regeneration -- Diocletian Palace, Split -- Attocha Station, Madrid -- Neues Museum, Berlin -- Former Prison, Hasselt -- St Joseph church, Ghent.
Author : Beatriz Colomina
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015079262971
An illustrated collection of essays analyzing the work and cultural politics of the influential twentieth-century American architect Philip Johnson.
Author : Francis D. K. Ching
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1784 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781118004821
A superb visual reference to the principles of architecture Now including interactive CD-ROM! For more than thirty years, the beautifully illustrated Architecture: Form, Space, and Order has been the classic introduction to the basic vocabulary of architectural design. The updated Third Edition features expanded sections on circulation, light, views, and site context, along with new considerations of environmental factors, building codes, and contemporary examples of form, space, and order. This classic visual reference helps both students and practicing architects understand the basic vocabulary of architectural design by examining how form and space are ordered in the built environment.? Using his trademark meticulous drawing, Professor Ching shows the relationship between fundamental elements of architecture through the ages and across cultural boundaries. By looking at these seminal ideas, Architecture: Form, Space, and Order encourages the reader to look critically at the built environment and promotes a more evocative understanding of architecture. In addition to updates to content and many of the illustrations, this new edition includes a companion CD-ROM that brings the book's architectural concepts to life through three-dimensional models and animations created by Professor Ching.