Design, Technology and the Development Process in the Built Environment (Built Environment Series of Textbooks)

✍ Scribed by Tom Collier

• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 218
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This second book in the BEST series explores the fundamental generators and contextual issues - philosophical, physical and political - that influence built environments. It draws on international examples to show how societies and cultures in different parts of the world react to similar problems. It contrasts dramatically different types of buildings and enclosures from primitive shelters to space laboratories. They show how mankind endeavours to control the environment - whatever it is.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series Title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Content......Page 7
Contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Introduction......Page 13
Part 1 The fundamental challenges......Page 18
1 Vision and intervention......Page 20
2 The social challenge......Page 35
3 The challenge of technology......Page 54
Part 2 The process of development......Page 79
4 Building together......Page 81
5 UK development processes in an international context......Page 101
6 Influences on design......Page 125
Part 3 The design and construction of buildings......Page 140
7 Concepts of structure and space......Page 142
8 The building skin......Page 161
9 Aspects of engineering services in design and development......Page 176
10 Individual and collective responsibilities......Page 192
Index......Page 209