Buildings Culture And Environment

Author : Richard Lorch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470758813
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buildings, Culture and Environment written by Richard Lorch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 13 : 9783869222820
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building for a Changing Culture and Climate written by Ulrich Pfammatter and published by Dom Pub. This book was released on 2014 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 13 : 0710202342
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buildings and Society written by Anthony D. King and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Donald E. Mulligan
Publisher : Stipes Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781588743473
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Construction And Culture written by Donald E. Mulligan and published by Stipes Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004-08-31 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amos Rapoport
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816511761
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of the Built Environment written by Amos Rapoport and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Amos Rapoport
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture, Architecture, and Design written by Amos Rapoport and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 13 : 1134632967
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture, Architecture and Nature written by Sim Van der Ryn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1563676796
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Author : Howard Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195305937
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Building written by Howard Davis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-08 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Dr Simon Richards
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409456595
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architect Knows Best written by Dr Simon Richards and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that buildings could be used to reform human behaviour and improve society was fundamental to the 'modernist' architecture and planning of people like Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier and José Luis Sert in the first half of the 20th century. Their proposals for functional zoning, multi-level transport, high-rise living, and machine-inspired aesthetics came under attack from the 1950s onwards, and many alternative approaches to architecture and planning emerged. It was thought that the environmental determinist strand of the discourse was killed off at this time as well. This book argues that it was not, but on the contrary, that it has deepened and diversified. Many of the most prominent architect-planners continue to design with a view to improving the behaviour of individual people and of society at large. By looking at - and interviewing - major figures and movements of recent years in Britain, Europe and America, including Léon Krier, Peter Eisenman, Andrés Duany, Jane Jacobs, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, it demonstrates the myriad ways that architect-planners seek to shape human behaviour through buildings. In doing so, the book raises awareness of this strand within the discourse and examines its different purposes and manifestations. It questions whether it is an ineradicable and beneficial part of architecture and planning, or a regrettable throwback to a more authoritarian phase, discusses why is it seldom acknowledged directly and whether it could be handled more responsibly and with greater understanding. Richards does not provide any simple solutions but in conclusion, is critical of architect-planners who abuse the rhetoric of social reform simply to leverage their attempts to secure building commissions, while being more sympathetic towards those who appear to have a sincere desire to improve society through their buildings.