Main entry:

Bertram, Nigel.

Title & Author:

Furniture, structure, infrastructure : making and using the urban environment / Nigel Bertram.

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2013]

Description:

xxiv, 267 pages ; 22 cm.

Series:

Design research in architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- 1. Openings -- 2. Division and multiplication -- 3. Intersections -- 4. By-product-Tokyo -- 5. Appropriations -- 6. Elwood House -- 7. Thresholds -- 8. Fitzroy Apartments -- 9. Plans -- 10. Somers House & North Fitzroy House -- 11. Details -- 12. RMIT Building 45 -- 13. Materials -- 14. Pioneer Museum Plaza & Lyons Office -- 15. Furniture -- 16. Conversations.

Summary:

"Observation and analysis are types of invention. They make things apparent which perhaps were invisible. By noticing, drawing and naming something we bring it into being. On the other hand, building and making can be thought of as analytical observations, pointing out what had not been so clear before and revealing the potential for other actions yet to occur. This book is a collection of urban research and architectural projects by award-winning architect Nigel Bertram, using observation as a design tool and design as an observational method. Through this process, a position on the making of architecture and on the role of architecture within the wider urban environment is established; embracing the full messy reality of the present, finding delight in the everyday and developing sensitivity to a range of found environments."--PUBLISHER.

ISBN:

9781409449270 (paperback ; alk. paper)
1409449270 (paperback ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9781409449287
(epub)
9781409471950

Subject:

Bertram, Nigel.
City planning.
Architectural design.
Design architectural.
Architecture and Planning.
Australian

Added entries:

Design research in architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 299318
Call No.: BIB 245420
Status: Available