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Programming for Health and Wellbeing in Architecture presents a new approach to architectural programming that includes sustainability, neuroscience and human factors. This volume of contributions from noted architects and academics makes the case for rethinking the practices of programming and planning to incorporate evidence-based design, systems thinking and a deeper understanding of our evolutionary nature. These 18 original essays highlight how human and environmental health are closely related and should be incorporated as mutually reinforcing goals in every design project. Together, these chapters describe the framework for a new paradigm of building performance and design of the huma...
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Tsoi/Kobus & Associates was established in 1983 with a focus on technology in architecture. This 25-year monograph celebrates their philosphy and diverse body of work
This book offers advice on working with an architect to rebuild or remodelour home. It features prominent architects and their philosophies andidebars including planning checklists and a directory of architects. Anyoneho has endeavored to remodel or build a home from the ground up knows thathe process can be trying at best, infuriating at worst. That process can beade infinitely more enjoyable when you have the benefit of a professionalrchitect's expertise at the ready. In "How to Work with an Architect", notedrchitect and Taliesin Fellow Gerald Lee Morosco, AIA, reveals the essentialriteria for a successful architect/client relationship, explaining not onlyhat the benefits of working with an architect are, but also showing how anrchitect adds immeasurable value to a project. "How to Work with anrchitect" offers a brief history of the profession, with features onrominent architects and their philosophies. In addition, there are sidebarseaturing the American Institute of Architects, NCARB, state licensing boards, directory of Taliesin fellows, a step-by-step planning checklist, and much
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The Architecture of Persistence argues that continued human use is the ultimate measure of sustainability in architecture, and that expanding the discourse about adaptability to include continuity as well as change offers the architectural manifestation of resilience. Why do some buildings last for generations as beloved and useful places, while others do not? How can designers today create buildings that remain useful into the future? While architects and theorists have offered a wide range of ideas about building for change, this book focuses on persistent architecture: the material, spatial, and cultural processes that give rise to long-lived buildings. Organized in three parts, this book...
The purpose of this Special Issue “Nutrition in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)” is to increase knowledge regarding the role of dietary composition and effects in IBD, describing the prevalence of malnutrition in IBD and the effect on clinical outcomes, discussing methods of nutrition risk screening and assessment in IBD, and reviewing mechanisms through which diet and dietary components may affect disease severity. The articles focus on the following areas: Dietary Composition/Therapy Interventions in Ulcerative Colitis and effects on outcomes; Dietary Composition/Therapy Interventions in Crohn’s Disease and effects on outcomes; Nutrition Risk Screening and Assessment in IBD; Mechanisms of Diet in the pathogenesis of IBD.