Sustaining architecture in the anti-machine age / Ian Abley and James Heartfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abley, Ian.

Contributor:

Heartfield, James.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable architecture.

Architecture--Environmental aspects.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex ; New York : Wiley-Academy, 2001.

Summary:

In this age of ever-increasing environmental awareness, the issue of sustainability is set to become the dominant factor in architectural design. At a time when, like most professions, architectural practice is increasingly governed by legal guidelines and requirements, competing policy demands require architects to aim for economic, social and environmental sustainability whilst also trying to effect social progress. Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-Machine Age asks whether these two ambitions can be reconciled. Featuring contributions from architects, journalists, academics and legal consultants, the book takes a balanced look at the subject, giving the full range of sometimes opposing views. Examining all the key issues, it considers why the industrial development of town and country is considered unsustainable rather than socially imperative, and whether the aim of raising the level, standard and performance of architectural production conflicts with the promotion of sustainability. Over the last decade the profession and practice of architecture has changed rapidly. Sir Michael Latham's 'Constructing the Team' and Sir John Egan's 'Rethinking Construction' attempted to turn the building industry from labour-intensive trade contracting to the capital intensity of manufacturing. Paul Hyett, the current President of the Royal Institute of British Architects, has a mandate to establish an environmental duty of care. Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-Machine Age considers what these initiatives mean for architects.

Contents:

Chapter 1 If Sustainable Design isn't a Moral Imperative, What is? / Paul Hyett 22

Case Study: ISO 14001 and the Architectural Imagination, The Eden Centre, Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners 32

Case Study: Phase Changes, Explore at Bristol, Wilkinson Eyre Architects 36

Case Study: Beautifully Simple, Gateshead Millennium Bridge, Gateshead, Wilkinson Eyre Architects 38

Case Study: The Undulations of the Surrounding Landscape The Great Glasshouse, National Botanic Garden of Wales, Carmarthenshire, Foster and Partners 40

Chapter 2 Zen and the Art of Life-Cycle Maintenance / Austin Williams 42

Chapter 3 The Popular Legal Fiction / Daniel Lloyd 52

Case Study: Minimal in the Extreme, Royal Victoria Dock Demountable Transporter Bridge, Techniker and Lifschutz Davidson 63

Chapter 4 Ecological Frequencies and Hybrid Natures / Pamela Charlick, Natasha Nicholson 64

Chapter 5 Design Tokenism and Global Warming / Helene Guldberg, Peter Sammonds 72

Case Study: Challenging Assumptions about Cities of the Future Millennium Tower, Tokyo, Foster and Partners 84

Chapter 6 Sustainable Development and Everyday Life / Phil Macnaghten 86

Chapter 7 The Economics of Sustainable Development / James Heartfield 94

Chapter 8 Engaging the Stakeholder in the Development Process / Miffa Salter 104

Case Study: Lightness and Span, Stratford Market Depot, London, Wilkinson Eyre Architects 111

Case Study: The Well Tempered Environment, Stratford Regional Station, London, Wilkinson Eyre Architects 112

Chapter 9 The Trouble with Planners / Alan Hudson 114

Case Study: A Fly-by-Light Architecture, Airlander 1999 Jonathan Schwinge 121

Chapter 10 Why it is No Longer Appropriate to Underestimate the Opposition / Margaret Casely-Hayford 130

Chapter 11 Reinvigorating the English Tradition of Architectural Polemic / Miles Glendinning, Stefan Muthesius 134

Chapter 12 Town and Country in Perspective / James Heartfield 142

Chapter 13 The Sand-Heap Urbanism of the Twenty-First Century / Martin Pawley 152

Case Study: Advanced Technology Beyond Mere Styling 162

Chapter 14 Revolutionary Energy / Shane Slate, Ben Madden, Duncan Price 164

Chapter 15 Smalltowne / Sean Stanwick 170

Case Study: Lost Exchange, Liverpool and Birkenhead 2000, Jonathan Schwinge 178

Case Study: If Only Houses Were Designed and Made to this Standard 184

Part 1 Changes to Basic Duties for Architects in the Law / David Lloyd

Part 2 Partnering Agreements / Deborah Brown 203

Chapter 17 From Strategic Adviser to Design Subcontractor and Back Again / Peter Walker 194

Case Study: The British Airways London Eye 202

Case Study: Beyond Conventional Construction, NatWest Media Centre, Lord's Cricket Ground, Future Systems 204

Case Study: Unlike Any Office Building So Far Conceived Swiss Re Headquarters, City of London, Foster and Partners 206

Case Study: Industrial Pastimes, The Magna Project, Rotherdam 208

Chapter 18 Development Rights for the Hydrogen-Fuelled Future / Ian Abley 210

Case Study: Economy of Scale Required, Murray Grove and Shepherdess Walk, London, Cartwright Pickard Architects, Yorkon and The Peabody Trust 216.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-240).

ISBN:

0471486604

OCLC:

50198944