Author: Richard Lorch
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470758813
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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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
ISBN: 9783869222820
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 583
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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: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0710202342
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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First Published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Donald E. Mulligan
Publisher: Stipes Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781588743473
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Author: Architecton Ltd
Publisher: Images Publishing
ISBN: 1864705663
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Founded in 2001 by Dr. Alexander Zusik, Architecton has become one of Moscow’s leading design firms for both residential and commercial developments. With a focus on urban planning projects, Architecton delivers innovative design on a global level. With over 30 projects from around Europe, South America, and Southeast Asia, this monograph highlights the design direction and global cultural context that help illustrate Dr. Zusik’s vision: a firm that focuses on environmental and social responsibility while still maintaining a connection to the traditional. Featuring a combination of completed and proposed projects, Architecton: Architecture as Ecology of Culture provides a fascinating insight into a leading Russian architectural firm.
Author: Amos Rapoport
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architectural design
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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The three basic questions of EBS are (1) What bio-social, psychological, and cultural characteristics of human beings influence which characteristics of the built environment?; (2) What effects do which aspects of which environments have on which groups of people, under what circumstances, and when, why, and how?; and (3) Given this two-way interaction between people and environments, there must be mechanisms that link them. What are these mechanisms?Focusing on answers to these and other questions, "Culture, Architecture, and Design" discusses the relationship between culture, the built environment, and design by showing that the purpose of design is to create environments that suit users and is, therefore, user-oriented. Design must also be based on knowledge of how people and environments interact. Thus, design needs to respond to culture. In discussing (1) the nature and role of Environment-Behavior Studies (EBS); (2) the types of environments; (3) the importance of culture; (4) preference, choice, and design; (5) the nature of culture; (6) the scale of culture; and (7) how to make culture usable, Amos Rapoport states that there needs to be a ?change from designing for one?s own culture to understanding and designing for users? cultures and basing design on research in EBS, anthropology, and other relevant fields. Such changes should transform architecture and design so that it, in fact, does what it claims to do and is supposed to do ? create better (i.e., more supportive) environments.?
Author: Sim Van der Ryn
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134632967
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 235
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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: Amos Rapoport
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816511761
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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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: Aggregate
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822977893
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Governing by Design offers a unique perspective on twentieth-century architectural history. It disputes the primacy placed on individuals in the design and planning process and instead looks to the larger influences of politics, culture, economics, and globalization to uncover the roots of how our built environment evolves. In these chapters, historians offer their analysis on design as a vehicle for power and as a mediator of social currents. Power is defined through a variety of forms: modernization, obsolescence, technology, capital, ergonomics, biopolitics, and others. The chapters explore the diffusion of power through the establishment of norms and networks that frame human conduct, action, identity, and design. They follow design as it functions through the body, in the home, and at the state and international level. Overall, Aggregate views the intersection of architecture with the human need for what Foucault termed “governmentality”—societal rules, structures, repetition, and protocols—as a way to provide security and tame risk. Here, the conjunction of power and the power of design reinforces governmentality and infuses a sense of social permanence despite the exceedingly fluid nature of societies and the disintegration of cultural memory in the modern era.
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ISBN: 1563676796
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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