Designing better buildings : quality and value in the built environment / edited by Sebastian Macmillan.

Title & Author:

Designing better buildings : quality and value in the built environment / edited by Sebastian Macmillan.

Publication:

New York : Spon, 2004.

Description:

xx, 220 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Challenges for designers / Robin Nicholson -- Design as a value generator / Sebastian Macmillan -- Clients and quality / Tony Pollington -- Learning more from what we build / Bill Bordass -- Clients' perspective on the value of good design / Dickon Robinson -- The long-term costs of owning and using buildings / Raymond Evans [and others] -- Measuring value or only cost : the need for new valuation methods / John Rouse -- Measuring and improving functionality and performance / Terry Wyatt -- Design quality in new schools / Richard Feilden -- Assessing benefits in the health sector / Bryan Lawson -- Making special places for health care / Susan Francis -- Adding value through better urban design / Matthew Carmona -- Design quality needs conscious values / Giles Oliver -- Flexibility and adaptability / Adrian Leaman, Bill Bordass -- Managing design and construction / Peter Trebilcock -- Inclusive maps / Sunand Prasad -- Achieving quality in building design by intention / Michael Dickson -- Building indicators of design quality / Jennifer Whyte, David Gann, Ammon Salter -- Housing quality indicators in practice / Paul Wheeler.

Summary:

Design is widely recognized as the key to improving the quality of the built environment. This well-illustrated book comprises 15 chapters written by leading practitioners, clients, academics and other experts, and presents the latest thinking on what design quality is and how to achieve it.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description
Table of contents

ISBN:

0415315255 (hb)
9780415315258 (hb)
0415315263 (pb)
9780415315265 (pb)

Subject:

Architectural design.
Design architectural.
Architecture, Modern

Added entries:

Macmillan, Sebastian.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 243916
Call No.: NA2750 .D4168 2004
Status: Available

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