Unified Design

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-72331-9
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, gebunden, Format (B × H): 217 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 1082 g

Is the present obsession with the icon and the promotion of image over substance symptomatic of a general trend in contemporary architecture? Arup Associates provides the alternative: unified design. This straightforward, critical reflection on contemporary architecture -- a manifesto of sorts, polemical in parts, philosophical; and determined to set an honest agenda -- is divided into three sections. First, an explanation of unified design. Next, a demonstration of the sustainable agenda that is a the heart of this practice. Finally, a complementary series of essays by respected commentators outside of the practice place the vision of people-focused design in the context of other critical social thought.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brislin, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword (Gary Lawrence).

Introduction (Jonathan Glancey).

ONE: UNIFIED THINKING.

Unified Design: A Radical Wholeness (Jay Merrick in conversation with Declan O'Carroll)

Plantation Lane: Time and Tide (Arup Associates: Dialogue with Memory)

Sustaining Design (Herbert Girardet n conversation with Michael Beaven)

Vauxhall Cross Transport Interchange, London (Arup Associates: Sustainable Regeneration.

TWO: THE WORLD OF THE SENSES.

Unifying the Senses: Architecture as Lived Experience (Juhani Pallasmaa)

Druk White Lotus School, Ladakh, Northern Himalayas (Arup Associates: Holistic Design in a Climate Extremes).

Spatial Intelligence and Place-Making (Leon van Schaik).

THREE: DESIGNING THE WHOLE.

Collaborative Engineering (Arup Associates).

Arup Associates: Themes and Ideas.

Picture Credits and Acknowledgements.

Arup Associates 2000-08.

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Brislin is a principal at Arup Associates, the London-based architectural design studio of Arup Group, the multinational consulting engineering company. Arup Associates is internationally renowned for its multidisciplinary approach to design: architects work alongside structural and environmental engineers in integrated teams.?
The book includes contributions from: Jonathan Glancey, the architectural correspondent of The Guardian; Jay Merrick the architectural correspondent of The Independent; architectural authors Juhani Pallasmaa and Leon van Schaik; as well as from Mike Bevan and Declan O'Carroll, principals of Arup Associates.