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Taking Shape: A New Contract Between Architecture and Nature

Author : Susannah Hagan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136360344
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Taking Shape: A New Contract Between Architecture and Nature written by Susannah Hagan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-08-22 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Taking Shape' explores the evolution of scientific and academic theories that have resulted in the concept of sustainability. Susannah Hagan uses this as a basis to argue for developments in the future and argues that these theories are not 'just an intellectual and aesthetic regression' as they are often perceived to be. By focusing on the impact of the new theories of sustainable technology and new materials in architecture, Hagan moves the discourse and practice of environmental sustainability within architecture towards a greater degree of awareness of both its cultural significance and cultural potential. In short, it demonstrates the capacity of sustainable architecture to embrace cultural and technical innovation.

Design Education

Author : Robin Vande Zande
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 147582016X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Design Education written by Robin Vande Zande and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design Education: Creating Thinkers to Improve the World is a curricular resource that offers theoretical concepts and practical advice for teaching lessons in design to PreK-12 grade students. The book is for art educators at the preK-12 level in schools, museums, and enrichment programs, and university professors in teacher preparation programs. Design education is about problem-solving, learning through objects of our daily lives, and the role design plays in social responsibility and the creative economy. Designers utilize research methods, technology, sketching, and the construction of prototypes. The basis of these techniques, systems, and tools may be taught to Prek-12 students. Students need lifelong skills that build their creativity and problem-solving capabilities to better understand the world and themselves and use visual communication to advance their abilities to express ideas. Design is a study about life and can touch on all school subjects, making it a valuable interdisciplinary study. Students are able to directly apply thinking strategies and learning about facts, figures, and concepts at the same time they are crafting meaningful ideas about the importance, influence, and social implications of everyday items and the potential to improve the world.

Understanding Sustainable Architecture

Author : Helen Bennetts
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1134455593
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Sustainable Architecture written by Helen Bennetts and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Sustainable Architecture is a review of the assumptions, beliefs, goals and bodies of knowledge that underlie the endeavour to design (more) sustainable buildings and other built developments. Much of the available advice and rhetoric about sustainable architecture begins from positions where important ethical, cultural and conceptual issues are simply assumed. If sustainable architecture is to be a truly meaningful pursuit then it must be grounded in a coherent theoretical framework. This book sets out to provide that framework. Through a series of self-reflective questions for designers, the authors argue the ultimate importance of reasoned argument in ecological, social and built contexts, including clarity in the problem framing and linking this framing to demonstrably effective actions. Sustainable architecture, then, is seen as a revised conceptualisation of architecture in response to a myriad of contemporary concerns about the effects of human activity. The aim of this book is to be transformative by promoting understanding and discussion of commonly ignored assumptions behind the search for a more environmentally sustainable approach to development. It is argued that design decisions must be based on both an ethical position and a coherent understanding of the objectives and systems involved. The actions of individual designers and appropriate broader policy settings both follow from this understanding.

Modernity, Nation and Urban-Architectural Form

Author : Shireen Jahn Kassim
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319661310
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Modernity, Nation and Urban-Architectural Form written by Shireen Jahn Kassim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how Malaysia, as a multicultural modern nation, has approached issues of nationalism and regionalism in terms of physical expression of the built environment. Ever since the nation’s post-Colonial era, architects and policy makers have grappled with the theoretical and practical outcomes of creating public architecture that effectively responds to traditions, nationhood and modernity. The authors compile and analyse prevailing ideas and strategies, present case studies in architectural language and form, and introduce the reader to tensions arising between a nationalist agenda and local ‘regionalist’ architectural language. These dichotomies represent the very nature of multicultural societies and issues with identity; a challenge that various nations across the globe face in a changing environment. This topical and pertinent volume will appeal to students and scholars of urban planning, architecture and the modern city.

The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory

Author : C. Greig Crysler
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1412946131
Total Pages : 777 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory written by C. Greig Crysler and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory documents and builds upon some of the most innovative developments in architectural theory over the last two decades. Bringing into dialogue a range of geographically, institutionally and historically competing positions, the book examines and explores parallel debates in related fields. The book is divided into eight sections: Power/Difference/Embodiment Aesthetics/Pleasure/Excess Nation/Spectacle/Modernity History/Memory/Tradition Design/Practice/Production Technology/Science/Virtuality Nature/Landscape/Sustainability City/Metropolis/Territory Creating openings for future lines of inquiry and establishing the basis for new directions for education, research and practice, the book organizes itself around specific case studies to provide a critical, interpretive and speculative enquiry into the relevant debates in architectural theory. A methodical, authoritative and comprehensive addition to the literature, the Handbook is suitable for academics, researchers and practitioners in architecture, urban geography, cultural studies, sociology and geography.

EDRA40

Author : Environmental Design Research Association. Conference
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0939922355
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book EDRA40 written by Environmental Design Research Association. Conference and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nature Inside

Author : Penny Sparke
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300244029
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Nature Inside written by Penny Sparke and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how plants and flowers have shaped interior design for over 200 years From ferns in 19th-century British parlors to contemporary "living walls" in commercial spaces, plants and flowers have long been incorporated into the design of public and private spaces. Spanning two centuries, Nature Inside explores the history and popularity of indoor plants, revealing the close relationship between architecture, interior design, and nature. Studying the international modern interior through the lens of plants in the human environment, author Penny Sparke attributes a degree of the interest in indoor plants to urbanization, and, more recently, the climate crisis, which serve as ongoing reminders that people must maintain a connection to, and respect for, the natural world. While architectural and interior design styles have evolved alongside the popularity of various plant species, the human need to bring nature indoors has remained constant.

The Elements of Architecture

Author : Scott Drake
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317973283
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book The Elements of Architecture written by Scott Drake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Elements of Architecture is a clear and well structured introduction to sustainable architecture, which concentrates on general principles to make an accessible and comprehensive primer for undergraduate students. The author takes a fresh and logical approach, focusing on the way aspects of the built environment are experienced by the occupants and how that experience is interpreted in architectural design. He works through basic elements and senses (sun; heat; light; sound; air; water and fire) to explain and frame effective environmental architectural design - not only arguing that the buildings we inhabit should be viewed as extensions of our bodies that interact with and protect us from these elements, but also using this analogy to explain complex ideas in an accessible manner.

Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism

Author : Dominique Gauzin-Müller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783764366599
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (665 download)

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Book Synopsis Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism by : Dominique Gauzin-Müller

Download or read book Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism written by Dominique Gauzin-Müller and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the mid-1980s, and in particular the 1992 environmental summit in Rio de Janeiro, sustainability has become a global issue and the subject of international debate. In the context of architecture sustainability implies the use of intelligent technology, innovative construction methods, ecologically friendly materials and use of environmentally-friendly energy resources. This book begins with an overview of the various approaches and developments in sustainable architecture, followed by an in-depth section on urbanism looking at several European towns. In the third section the technologies, materials and methods of ecological architecture are examined. Concluding the volume are 23 sophisticated and innovative European case studies. The author and architect Dominique Gauzin-Müller has specialised on energy and environmental issues and ecological architecture for over 15 years.

Modern Architecture and Climate

Author : Daniel A. Barber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691248656
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Modern Architecture and Climate written by Daniel A. Barber and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Technonatures

Author : Damian F. White
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554581761
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book Technonatures written by Damian F. White and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmentalism and social sciences appear to be in a period of disorientation and perhaps transition. In this innovative collection, leading international thinkers explore the notion that one explanation for the current malaise of the “politics of ecology” is that we increasingly find ourselves negotiating “technonatural” space/times. International contributors map the political ecologies of our technonatural present and indicate possible paths for technonatural futures. The term “technonatures” is in debt to a long line of environmental cultural theory from Raymond Williams onwards, problematizing the idea that a politics of the environment can be usefully grounded in terms of the rhetoric of defending the pure, the authentic, or an idealized past solely in terms of the ecological or the natural. In using the term “technonatures” as an organizing myth and metaphor for thinking about the politics of nature in contemporary times, this collection seeks to explore one increasingly pronounced dimension of the social natures discussion. Technonatures highlights a growing range of voices considering the claim that we are not only inhabiting diverse social natures but that within such natures our knowledge of our worlds is ever more technologically mediated, produced, enacted, and contested.

Between Dream Houses and "God's Own Junkyard": Architecture and the Built Environment in American Suburban Fiction

Author : Stefanie Strebel
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3772057519
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Between Dream Houses and "God's Own Junkyard": Architecture and the Built Environment in American Suburban Fiction written by Stefanie Strebel and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American suburb is a space dominated by architectural mass production, sprawl, as well as a monotonous aesthetic eclecticism, and many critics argue that it has developed from a postwar utopia into a disorienting environment with which it is difficult to identify. The typical suburb has come to display characteristics of an atopia, that is, a space without borders or even a non-place, a generic space of transience. Dealing with the representation of architecture and the built environment in suburban literature and film from the 1920s until present, this study demonstrates that in its fictional representations, too, suburbia has largely turned into a place of non-architecture. A lack of architectural ethos and an abundance of "Junkspace" define suburban narratives, causing an increasing sense of disorientation and entropy in fictional characters.

The Compendium of Poetic Machines Volume 1

Author : Ted Shelton
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557226570
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book The Compendium of Poetic Machines Volume 1 written by Ted Shelton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes Poet Tech, a seminar offered at the University of Tennessee College of Architecture and design in the fall of 2009. Students were charged with designing poetic machines.

Constructing Place

Author : Sarah Menin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134379080
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Constructing Place written by Sarah Menin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-02-24 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a cutting edge study examining the attitudes to both nature and the built environment of the designer, the client and the society in which an intervention (be it architecture, landscape design or a piece of art) is made. The legacy of the Modernist view of nature and the environment is also addressed, and the degree to which such ideas continue to impinge on contemporary interventions is assessed.

Deleuze and Architecture

Author : Helene Frichot
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748674667
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Deleuze and Architecture written by Helene Frichot and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critiques the legacy and ongoing influence of Deleuze on the discipline and practice of architecture. This collection looks critically at how Deleuze challenges architecture as a discipline, how architecture contributes to philosophy and how we can come to understand the complex politics of space of our increasingly networked world. Since the 1980s, Deleuze's philosophy has fuelled a generation of architectural thinking, and can be seen in the design of a global range of contemporary built environments. His work has also alerted architecture to crucial ecological, political and social problems that the discipline needs to reconcile.

Cultures of Glass Architecture

Author : Hisham Elkadi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317155688
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Cultures of Glass Architecture written by Hisham Elkadi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When designing, architects are responding to and creating a relationship between identity, culture and architectural style. This book discusses whether the extent of the use of glass facades has increased, or indeed enhanced, the creation of meaningful place-making, thereby creating a cultural identity of 'place'. Looking at the development of perceptions of glass facades in different cultures, it shows how modernist 'glass' buildings are perceived as an expression of technical achievement, as symbols of global economic success and as setting a neutral platform for multi-cultural societies - all of which are difficult for urban developers and policy makers to resist in our era of globalization. Drawing on a number of modern and heritage design projects from Europe, the USA, the Middle East and South East Asia, the book reviews efforts of some regional towns and local places to move up the economic ladder by adopting a more 'global' aesthetic.

Architecture & Sustainable Development (vol.2)

Author : Magali Bodart
Publisher : Presses univ. de Louvain
ISBN 13 : 2874632775
Total Pages : 669 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Architecture & Sustainable Development (vol.2) written by Magali Bodart and published by Presses univ. de Louvain. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of Proceedings presents the latest thinking and research in the rapidly evolving world of architecture and sustainable development through 255 selected papers by authors coming from over 60 countries.