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This book examines the social and spatial dimensions of dwelling from the perspective of sustainability. This publication avoids the traditional energy and technological dimensions of sustainability to position the notion of sustainable dwelling at the crossroads of spatial polyvalence and residents' empowerment. In the field of housing, this publication identifies the recurrent properties of 'sustainable space’ and the variety of the socio-cultural practices that can embody them. Its purpose is to comprehend how the concept of sustainability is reflected in housing spaces as well as to analyse how inhabitants put those spaces to the test.
How has Covid-19 changed society and ways to live urban environment? How has it changed the understanding of urban space and urban lifestyles? How has it changed education and research and how pre-Covid research goals could be put under discussion in the post-Covid City? The book illustrates research fundings and investigations on how Covid-19 contingency has changed nowadays society and the ways we make research. The book is divided in three parts: Part One is trying to give some answers on how research priorities have been changed during the lockdown and how pre-Covid research goals could be put under discussion within the post-Covid City. Part Two explores contemporary attitudes regarding theoretical and practice-based research in urbanism and architecture. Part Three is dealing with Higher Education.
Cette thèse a pour finalité l'élaboration d'un modèle (analytico)systémique du processus de (co)conception qui vise l'architecture. Sans modéliser l'intrapsychisme du (co)concepteur, ce modèle théorique général consiste en un outil pédagogique heuristique
Cet ouvrage interdisciplinaire s'ouvre sur une question philosophique: quels modes de réflexivité pour penser – ou repenser? – l’architecture, ce vaste et complexe domaine, tendu entre hier et demain. Les chapitres qui suivent abordent les rapports de l’architecture avec la poétique, la technique et enfin l’éthique. En effet, si l’architecture aujourd’hui n’a de sens qu’en partant des préoccupations des architectes eux-mêmes, les questions qu’elle soulève doivent faire l’objet d’un débat avec d’autres praticiens et théoriciens, dans le double but de garantir le recul critique et d’ouvrir l’imagination créatrice.
Les défis auxquels l'environnement bâti doit répondre sont de plus en plus nombreux. Entre contextes sociaux complexes, programmes économiques sous pression et nécessité de construire et d'habiter de manière performante et durable, les attentes qui r
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This book offers a deep insight into the genesis and development of the European Commission's energy and climate legislation, focusing on the interplay of politics and science. How does the Commission react when confronted with knowledge? According to the author, the Commission functions as catalyst transforming knowledge into politics.