Buildings, Culture and Environment: Informing Local and Global Practices - Couverture rigide

Lorch, Richard

 
9781405100045: Buildings, Culture and Environment: Informing Local and Global Practices
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1405100044 ISBN 13 : 9781405100045
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2003

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Raymond J. Cole is Professor of Architecture at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Richard Lorch is an architect and editor of the international journal, Building Research and Information.

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Éditeur
Wiley-Blackwell
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1405100044
ISBN 13 
9781405100045
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
416
Éditeur
Cole Raymond J.
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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