Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Chichester, Eng. : John Wiley & Sons, ©2008.

Description:

207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Unified design : a radical wholeness / Jay Merrick in conversation with Declan O'Carroll -- Plantation lane : time and tide / Arup Associates -- Sustaining design / Herbert Girardet in conversation with Michael Beaven -- Vauxhall cross transport interchange, London / Arup Associates -- Unifying the senses : architecture as lived experience / Juhani Pallasmaa -- Druk White Lotus School, Ladakh, Northern Himalayas / Arup Associates -- Spatial intelligence and place-making / Leon van Schaik -- Collaborative engineering / Arup Associates -- Arup Associates : themes and ideas.

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"--Back cover

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description
Publisher description
Table of contents only

ISBN:

0470723319 (paperback)
9780470723319 (paperback)

Subject:

Arup Associates.
Architecture Human factors.
Architecture and society.
Architectural design.
Architecture Facteurs humains.
Architecture et société.
Design architectural.

Added entries:

Brislin, Paul.
Lawrence, Gary.
Arup Associates.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 258417
Call No.: BIB 189186
Status: Available