Buildings, culture and environment : informing local and global practices / / edited by Raymond J. Cole & Richard Lorch

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910876604803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, UK ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., c2003
• ISBN: 1-280-19941-5; 9786610199419; 0-470-75881-3; 0-470-75906-2; 1-4051-2838-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (418 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): ColeRaymond <1948->; LorchRichard
• Disciplina: 720
• Soggetti: Construction industry - Appropriate technology; Architecture and society; Sustainable architecture
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Contributors; 1 Introduction: Knowledge, Values and Building Design; Section I: Understanding Context; 2 Section introduction Understanding Context; 3 Globalisation - Entangled Places, Interface Buildings, Generic Design; 4 Trading Places - Sharing Knowledge about Environmental Building Techniques; 5 Green Buildings - Reconciling Technological Change and Occupant Expectations; 6 Cultural Issues for a Sustainable Built Environment; 7 Section commentary; Section II: Understanding Expectations; 8 Section introduction; 9 The Role of the Client in Shaping the Satisfactory Outcome of the Construction Process10 User Needs and Expectations; 11 Historical and Cultural Influences on Comfort Expectations; 12 BEQUEST - an International Cross-cultural Cooperation and Information Exchange; 13 Section commentary Reconciling Expectations; Section III: Understanding Process; 14 Section introduction Understanding Process; 15 Technology Transfer - a Vernacular View; 16 Social and ; Organisational Understanding of Stakeholder Interests; 17 Contemporary Chinese Architectural and Planning Practice - Aspirations and Challenges; 18 A Bio-regional Approach to Environmental Building - a Case Study of the KST House19 Cultural Aspects of Environmental Housing in Japan; 20 Section commentary Understanding Delivery Processes; Section IV: Afterword; 21 Afterword: Towards a New Social Contract?; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: TThe book focuses on key issues for present and future practice and research needs related to advancing the environmental performance of buildings and addresses the role regional culture plays in the successful (or otherwise) process of exchanging and adapting environmental practices and standards in the built environment.