Construction is vital both to Gross Domestic Product and to todaya s politics. Prime Minister Tony Blair himself chairs a cabinet committee on the Thames Gateway development, to the east of London. Housing has proved a big factor in Chancellor Gordon Brown's worries about the Euro. But the construction sector is one of the world's weakest in innovation. Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott's target of just 4000 homes to be made through prefabrication shows how building remains a 19th century affa...
Drifting by Intention (Design Research Foundations)
by Peter Gall Krogh and Ilpo Koskinen
Constructive design research, is an exploratory endeavor building exemplars, arguments, and evidence. In this monograph, it is shown how acts of designing builds relevance and articulates knowledge in combination. Using design acts to build new knowledge, invite reframing of questions and new perceptions to build up. Respecting the emergence of new knowledge in the process invite change of cause and action. The authors' term for this change is drifting; designers drift; and they drift intentio...
The Production of Houses (Center for Environmental Structure, #4)
by Christopher Alexander
As an innovative thinker about building and planning, Christopher Alexander has attracted a devoted following. His seminal books--The Timeless Way of Building, A Pattern Language, and The Oregon Experiment--defined a radical and fundamently new process of environmental design. Alexander now gives us the latest book in his series--a book that puts his theories to the test and shows what sort of production system can create the kind of environment he has envisioned.The Production of Houses center...
This book continues the unique approach to designing successful paediatric health care facilities, which has made Bruce King Komiske one of the industry's most in-demand design and management consultants. Following the success of the first volume of "Designing the World's Best Children's Hospitals", this new publication is intended as an additional reference guide for teams of healthcare and design professionals, and parents, who engage in the exciting journey of creating a 'healing environment'...
Guidebook to the Leed Certification Process (Wiley Series in Sustainable Design, #2)
by Michelle Cottrell
Proven Strategies for Getting a Project LEED (R) Certified Here is the ideal guide for architects, engineers, interior designers, project managers, facility managers, and building owners for understanding the project certification process for the Leadership for Energy and Environmental Design (LEED (R)) for New Construction and Major Renovations (LEED NC), LEED for Core & Shell (LEED CS), and LEED for Commercial Interiors (LEED CI) rating systems of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC (R))....
Even the most inventive and revolutionary architects of today owe debts to the past, often to the distant past when architecture really was being invented for the first time. Architects depend on their own imaginations for personal insights and originality but their ideas may be stimulated (consciously or subliminally) by particularly powerful buildings from history. The Ten Most Influential Buildings in History: Architecture's Archetypes identifies ten architectural archetypes that have been so...
Proposals for urban improvement often neglect to consider that the urban environment is in fact designed by architects and planners. This book explores their world view and changing careers to show how these factors affect their work.
