This book explores urban renewal in post-industrial regional cities through an in-depth study of Geelong. While architecture is key to change, an intersectional perspective reveals contested pasts, from the dispossession of First Nations people to the exploitation of immigrants.
A must-read for professionals and advocates of historic preservation, this volume is a compendium of powerful essays by thought-leaders in the field first presented in 2016 as part of the fiftieth anniversary observation of the US National Historic Preservation Act.
Critical Practices in Architecture
Inspired by Jane Rendell’s critical spatial practice, this book shows how socially engaged architects, designers, and artists work to change the world. Bridging global perspectives, it explores urgent themes of equality, ethics, pedagogy, and representation.
This book examines the psycho-social factors of depression in the elderly: sudden retirement, loss, poverty, and social isolation. It will appeal to professionals and families willing to help their ageing relatives avoid depression.
This book explores the preservation of the urban historical environment. It covers improving and strengthening building structures, construction technology, geotechnics, and energy efficiency, detailing developments in pile structures using discharge-pulse technology.
Doctoral Education in Architecture
Doctoral Education in Architecture: Challenges and Opportunities deals with a topic on which there is currently little literature available. Containing data from a pilot study and contributions on European schools, this volume provides insight for future challenges.
Leading experts discuss the ecological and salutogenic design principles for creating a healthy built environment. This book explores how to provide clean air, water, and land, intertwining these principles to support human health and wellbeing globally.
The teaching of architecture and urbanism is in crisis, unable to respond to current problems like the human right to housing. This book of essays by international experts presents historical analyses, manifestos, and new objectives to address the challenge.
Evolving Transcendentalism in Literature and Architecture
This book shows how architects Frank Furness, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright read Transcendentalists like Emerson and Whitman and transformed their philosophy into physical substance. It is the first to analyze their iconic work from this perspective.
This book explores the window’s transformation in Early Modern Europe. Driven by a classical revival and the climate change of the Little Ice Age, builders created new traditions that rivalled Italy, culminating in the iconic French casement and the English sash window.
This book promotes formal methods for problem-solving in architecture and urbanism. It presents theoretically driven techniques, from millennial geometry to current shape grammars, to produce better solutions with less testing time in direct confrontation with reality.
This volume explores the application of formal methods from mathematics to architecture and urbanism. From geometry to shape grammars, it examines the potential of these tools to create new problem-solving languages and advance the digitalization of the field.
From Martyr to Monument
After the great Abbey of Cluny was destroyed, its memory was resurrected. This study follows the discursive history of the site, investigating the role of memory in constructing the past and the concept of heritage in France.
A UNESCO World Heritage site, Hōryūji includes the world’s oldest wooden buildings and marked Buddhism’s introduction to Japan. These interdisciplinary essays shed new light on the complex, examining new materials and incorporating computer analysis.
Housing the Environmental Imagination
For writers like Thoreau, Jeffers, and Snyder, the writing project is inseparable from the living project. This book examines how their houses shaped their work, asking a larger question: How shall we live the best lives we can, every day?
Housing the Poor on the African Continent
This book uses Ubuntu philosophy to address low-cost housing in Africa. It argues that reciprocity and collective solidarity are key to housing rights, informing policy and practice while raising red flags about the challenges of implementing these ideals.
This book proposes a new way to measure housing unaffordability from a resident’s point of view: the mismatch between where one can afford to live and where they would prefer to live. Written for all, it helps residents, academics, and practitioners make wiser decisions.
In the Place of Sound
This book presents thirteen essays and seven graphic works from a conference of artists, researchers, and architects. The chapters explore the fraught relationship between sound and space, presenting a provocative collection of ideas and designs.
Intelligent Systems in Buildings
This book explores how intelligent systems can enhance the performance of the traditional courtyard house. It identifies key features of these homes and shows how knowledge of intelligent systems is crucial to fulfilling occupants’ needs.
This book examines the political role of architecture through a study of Tehran’s bazaar. Going beyond conventional discourse, it considers architecture as an event, using concepts from Foucault to analyze how it transforms individuals through the act of exchange.