Unified design / Arup Associates ; editor, Paul Brislin ; contributors, Gary Lawrence ... [et al.]

Brislin, Paul. Lawrence, Gary. Arup Associates

2008, First Edition. Chichester, England : John Wiley & Sons. Fine copy in the original color printed boards. Particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #241792

Physical description; 207 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; 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. Summary; 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, a radical pan-disciplinary approach that focuses on people from the outset, through the united vision of architects, engineers, artists and social scientists. Arup Associates rejects the imposition of an external image: there can be no standard solutions and no predefined styles. Instead, design must evolve from fundamental research and experiential goals, to form a holistic architecture entirely driven by a "whole life" sustainability that maintains human culture - tradition, religion, the intangible components of humanity - in the face of modernity. Subjects; Arup Associates. Architecture — Human factors. Architecture and society. Architectural design. Architectural structure & design. Architecture / Reference. Architecture and society ; Architectural design ; Arup Associates. Genre; Illustrated.

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