Crime Prevention Through Housing Design

Crime Prevention Through Housing Design

Edited by Paul Stollard

This book provides specific guidance for architects, planners, and housing managers on designing to deter crime. While every estate and neighbourhood has different problems which require unique solutions, the process which leads to the solutions will be the same.

The first three chapters review the various theories of crime prevention through design, and abstract from them a series of six key principles which can be applied to all housing projects. The remaining five chapters outline the practical application of these principles in the assessment, design and construction processes.

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Architectural Thought : the design process and the expectant eye

Architectural Thought : the design process and the expectant eye

Michael Brawne

An introduction to architectural thought, this text is a thorough and accessible discussion in search of the principles of the design process.

Documenting the non-verbal processes and decisions that architects and designers make is a difficult task, but one that is important when trying to understand the development of architectural design through the ages. Michael Brawne uses his experience as a practicing architect, academic and educator to provide an overview of the subject. By looking at the practices and buildings of architects past and present he incorporates history and philosophy in the search for a theory of design.

* Provides a well-rounded look at the development of architectural thought. 

* Written at a level that is accessible for professionals and students. 

* Illustrates how the design process has developed from antiquity to the present day.

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Architectural Design and Ethics - Tools for Survival

Architectural Design and Ethics - Tools for Survival

Thomas Fisher

Architectural Design and Ethics offers both professional architects and architecture students a theoretical base and numerous suggestions as to how we might rethink our responsibilities to the natural world and design a more sustainable future for ourselves. 

As we find ourselves on the steep slope of several exponential growth curves – in global population, in heat-trapping atmospheric gases, in the gap between the rich and poor, and in the demand for finite resources, Fisher lays down a theory of architecture based on ethics and explores how buildings can and do provide both social and moral dimensions. The book also has practical goals, demonstrating how architects can make better and more beautiful buildings whilst nurturing more responsible, sustainable development. 

Architectural Design and Ethics will prove an invaluable text not only to those in the architecture field, but to anyone simply interested in the ethical issues surrounding our built environment.

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Analysing Architecture

Analysing Architecture

Simon Unwin

209 pages

Clear and accessible, Analysing Architecture opens a fresh way to understanding architecture. It offers a unique ‘notebook’ of architectural strategies to present an engaging introduction to elements and concepts in architectural design. Beautifully illustrated throughout with the author’s original drawings, examples are drawn from across the world and many periods of architectural history (from prehistoric times to the recent past) to illustrate analytical themes and to show how drawing can be used to study architecture. Since its first edition appeared in 1997, Analysing Architecture has established itself internationally as one of the key texts in architectural education.

This third edition includes a new section discussing the ways analyzing examples cultivates a capacity for design. Original chapters have been expanded, new case studies added, and the format rearranged for additional clarity. The bibliography of recommended supplementary reading has also been extended.

In Analysing Architecture, Simon Unwin clearly identifies the key elements of architecture and conceptual themes apparent in buildings and relevant to other works of architecture such as gardens and cities. He describes ideas for use in the active process of design. Breaking down the grammar of architecture into themes and ‘moves’, Unwin exposes its underlying patterns to reveal the organizational strategies that lie beneath the superficial appearances of buildings.

Exploring buildings as results of the interaction of people with the world around them, Analysing Architecture offers a definition of architecture as ‘identification of place’ and provides a greater understanding of architecture as a creative discipline. This book presents a powerful impetus for readers to develop their own capacities for architectural design. It will also be of use to all those with an interest in the human occupation of and involvement with space – anthropologists, archaeologists, film-makers, installation artists, planners, urban designers, politicians.

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Geometries Sacrees - Tome 1

Geometries Sacrees - Tome 1

Stephane Cardinaux

Trajectoire | 2004-01 | djvu | 281 pages | 23 Mb

Tous les édifices construits par les bâtisseurs sont basés sur des tracés géométriques rigoureux. Le livre a comme objectif de vous donner les outils nécessaires pour retrouver leurs tracés (lorsqu'ils ont disparus) ou de comprendre les lieux sacrés existants : menhirs, mégalithes, dolmens, cromlechs, villas gallo-romaines, temples égyptiens, chapelles, autels, cathédrales, collégiales, églises...

Près de 300 illustrations (dont beaucoup sont en couleur) retracent les fondements géométriques et les grands chemins des forces telluriques de tous ces monuments. Car ils émettent des énergies " éthériques " subtiles, de nature tellurique. La capacité de chacun d'entre nous à ressentir ces énergies est proportionnelle à sa sensibilité radiesthésique et à son niveau de conscience.

Tous les bâtisseurs concevaient, plaçaient et orientaient leurs constructions. Avec un minimum d'intuition, d'observation, de ressenti, il est possible aujourd'hui de créer un lieu sacré : c'est ce que démontre l'auteur tous les jours avec les groupes qu'il anime.

En ayant compris comment les bâtisseurs s'y sont pris, vous pouvez faire la même chose qu'eux. Avec un cheminement spirituel, car votre oeuvre sera le résultat d'une démarche intérieure.

Créer un lieu sacré, aussi simple soit-il, est un acte qui contribue à bâtir votre temple intérieur et à démontrer votre respect des forces de la Terre.

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Grammaire de l'architecture

Grammaire de l'architecture

sous la direction de Emily Cole.

238 pages en français.

La Grammaire de l'architecture rend accessible aux étudiants comme au grand public un large éventail de termes architecturaux qui ont servi à décrire les constructions à travers le monde et à travers les âges. De l'Egypte ancienne, Babylone, la Grèce antique au Roman, Gothique, la Renaissance et le Baroque.

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Details of Victorian Architecture

Details of Victorian Architecture

book

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Courtyard Housing: Past, Present, Future

Courtyard Housing: Past, Present, Future

By Brian Edwards

Spon Press | 2005-11-14 | 248 pages | PDF | 10 Mb

Courtyard housing is one of the oldest forms of domestic development spanning at least 2000 years and occurring in distinctive form in many regions of the world. Traditionally associated with the Middle East where climate and culture have given shape to a particular type of courtyard housing, other examples exist in Latin America, China and in Europe where the model has been reinterpreted. This book demonstrates, through discussions on sustainability and regional identity, and via a series of case studies, that she courtyard housing form has a future as well as a past 

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Civilizatii - Patrimoniul Cultural Universal UNESCO

Civilizatii - Patrimoniul Cultural Universal UNESCO

Romanian 

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Architecture as Experience - Radical Change in Spatial Practice

Architecture as Experience - Radical Change in Spatial Practice

Dana Arnold & Andrew Ballantyne

Architecture as Experience investigates the perception and appropriation of places across intervals of time and culture. The particular concern of the volume is to bring together fresh empirical research and animate it through contact with theoretical sophistication, without overwhelming the material.

The chapters establish the continuity of a particular physical object and show it in at least two alternative historical perspectives, in which recognisable features are shown in different lights. The results are often surprising, inverting the common idea of a historic place as having an enduring meaning. This book shows the insight that can be gained from learning about earlier constructions of meaning which have been derived from the same buildings that stand before us today.

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Domus - projets

Domus - projets

TASCHEN’s twelve-volume reprint features selected highlights from the years 1928 to 1999.

Reproducing the pages as they originally appeared, each volume is packed with articles that bring to light the incredible history of modern design and architecture. A truly comprehensive lexicon of styles and movements, the volumes are accompanied by specially commissioned introductory texts that not only outline the history of the magazine but also describe what was happening in design and architecture during each era covered.

These texts have been written by many of the magazine’s renowned past editors: Mario Bellini, François Burkhardt, Cesare Maria Casati, Stefano Casciani, Germano Celant, Manolo De Giorgi, Fulvio Irace, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Alessandro Mendini, Lisa Licitra Ponti, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Luigi Spinelli, and Deyan Sudjic.

The volumes have also been thoroughly indexed, allowing the reader easy access to key articles —many of which have been translated into English for the first time.

Taschen's DOMUS collection is a major publishing achievement and an important must-have for all design and architecture teaching institutions, practicing architects, designers, collectors, students, and anyone who loves design.

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