Title & Author:

AD, urban environments.

Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Academy, 2001.

Description:

223 pages ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Urban Environments / Elisabetta G. Mapelli -- About the House, Levi-Strauss and Beyond / Janet Carsten and Stephen Hugh-Jones -- The Dilapidated Dwelling / Patrick Keiller -- Urban Sense / Richard Economakis and H.R.H. the Prince of Wales -- The New Town of Windsor, Florida / Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk -- Authenticity and Otherness / Sarah Chaplin -- The Myth of High-Tech / Forum -- More with Less / Alberto Campo Baeza -- Garcia Marcos House, Valdemoro, Madrid / Alberto Campo Baeza -- Riverside One Apartment, London / Claudio Silvestrin -- On Minimalism in Architecture / Clare Melhuish -- Table Manners / Sarah Wigglesworth and Jeremy Till -- Ost/Kuttner Apartments, Vienna / Kolatan/Macdonald Studio -- Raybould House Addition, Sherman, Connecticut / Kolatan/Macdonald Studio -- Living, 1990 / Archigram Group -- The Mobius House Study / Stephen Perrella and Rebecca Carpenter -- The Interactivator / John H. Frazer, Manit Rastogi and Peter Graham -- Virtual House: Potential Beyond the Future / Foreign Office Architects -- Pallas House / Decoi Architects with Objectile -- War and Peacefare at the Loaf House / Ben Nicholson -- Loaf House / Ben Nicholson -- GIFU -- Reversible Destiny / Arakawa Gins and Madeline Gins -- Modal Space: the Virtual Anatomy of Hyperstructures / Karl S. Chu Xkavya -- Against the Technological Interpretation of Virtuality / Giovanna Borradori -- The Green Apocalypse -- Environmentally Friendly Houses: the Reality / Exedra ds -- Hope House, East Molesey, England / Bill Dunster -- Earth as a British Building Material / Linda Watson -- Down to Earth Buildings / Sumita Sinha -- When is a Door Not a Door? / Neil Spiller -- Tree House Project, Lakeland, Florida / Pugh + Scarpa -- Project 222, Druidstone Haven, Wales / Future Systems -- Villa Malraux Artists' Residences and Studios, Maido Road, Reunion Island / Francois Roche -- Ephemeral Architecture / Robert Kronenburg -- Intensity / Mark Prizeman -- In Conversation with Klaar van de Lippe / Joep van Lieshout -- Everyday in the Life of a Caravan / Gillian Horn -- Depicting the Drive-in-House / Michael Webb -- From Priority Zones to Urban Community / Francis Nordemann -- Towards Cosmopolis / Leonie Sandercock -- Space, Time and Sprawl / Robert Fishman -- Order Out of Chaos / Alejandro Zaera Polo -- The Design of Sustainable New Towns / Battle McCarthy -- The Fractal City / Michael Batty and Paul Longley -- Soft Cities / William Mitchell -- Soft Cities 1: Flatscapes: Jane Harrison and David Turnbull / A. Topos / AA Diploma Unit 12 -- Space Resort / Howard Wolff -- Space Architecture / The Bartlett Discussion -- Challenging Paradigms / Katharina Ledersteger-Goodfriend.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Discusses the influence of the latest technology on contemporary living and possible future developments. * Comprehensively illustrated with many beautiful color photos, as well as plans and drawings. * Focuses on three principle areas: human action as design pattern, technological implementation, and the relationship between art and space in homes.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0471498068
9780471498063

Subject:

Architectural design Environmental aspects.
Design architectural Aspect de l'environnement.
Architecture, Domestic Environmental aspects.
Architecture Technological innovations.
City planning Technological innovations.
Architecture Forecasting.

Added entries:

Mapelli, Elisabetta G.
Mapelli, Elisabetta G., 1968-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 224999
Call No.: NA7117.5 .A3 2001
Status: Available