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The Victorian Art School
The Victorian Art School documents the history of the art school in the nineteenth century, from its origins in South Kensington to its proliferation through the major industrial centres of Britain. Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art, together with earlier examples in Manchester and Birmingham demonstrate an unprecedented concern for the provision of plentiful light and air amidst the pollution of the Victorian city. As theories of design education and local governance converged, they also reveal the struggle of the provincial city for cultural independence from the capital. Examining innovations in the use of new technologies and approaches in the design of these buildings,...
Architecture and Resilience
Resilience will be a defining quality of the twenty-first century. As we witness the increasingly turbulent effects of climate change, the multiple challenges of resource depletion and wage stagnation, we know that our current ways of living are not resilient. Our urban infrastructures, our buildings, our economies, our ways of managing and governing are still too tightly bound to models of unrestrained free-market growth, individualism and consumerism. Research has shown that the crises arising from climate change will become increasingly frequent and increasingly severe. It is also known that the effects of climate change are not evenly distributed across places and people, and neither are...
Cultural Climates
This thesis seeks to document the architectural history of the Victorian art school building and its relationship to the environment of the city, from its genesis in the complex of museum and school buildings at South Kensington to the construction of examples in the major industrial centres of Britain. While there is much historical work focusing on the influence of art schools on society in the nineteenth century, there is no comprehensive written history of art school buildings in Britain. This research addresses this gap in the literature. The design processes for three case studies - in Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow - and the environmental considerations that affected their form an...
Scroope 20
This should be architecture's finest hour. The leap in our understanding of the earth's systems has profound implications for the built environment and presents huge opportunities. The breadth of intellectual, emotional and moral grasp that is presented in this edition of Scroope seems to offer the right instruments for the mission. Sunand Prasad Scroope is the annual journal produced by students of Architecture at Cambridge University. Scroope 20 celebrates the reinstatement of the RIBA Part 2 course at Cambridge as an MPhil in Environmental Design, and features several projects of the first graduating cohort. The journal includes contributions from Peter Clegg and Sunand Prasad. It seeks to inform and widen the debate into what the future of our built environment might look like; how it might work; and how it might be lived in. From Alistair Donald's provocative call to expand the human footprint, to Kevin Fellingham's plea for a more holistic way of thinking about the environment, a wide range of views are encompassed that sometimes build upon and sometimes challenge a range of existing orthodoxies.
Studies in the History of Services and Construction
Building services are often overlooked in the history of architecture and engineering. This volume presents 41 papers presented at the Fifth Annual Conference of the Construction History Society held at Queens' College Cambridge from 6-8 April 2018 which cover a wide variety of topics on aspects of construction history and building services.
Precedented Environmental Futures
This book addresses the built environment through the lens of environmental architecture, and in a holistic manner. It moves gradually from psychophysiology and thinking-doing-feeling modalities, through environmental criteria to environmental modulation, concluding with a debate around mitigation and adaptation. Much use is made of re-interpreting past quotations seen as relevant for environmental architecture. No definitive conclusions are reached, but rather broad discursive messages are offered. The text will have lasting luminance for new generations involved with the built environment.
The Architect and the Academy
This book presents an expansive overview of the development of architectural and environmental research, with authoritative essays spanning Dean Hawkes’ impressive 50-year academic career. The book considers the relationship between the technologies of the environment and wider historical and theoretical factors, with chapters on topics ranging from the origins of modern ‘building science’ in Renaissance England to technology and imagination in architecture. It includes numerous architectural examples from renowned architects such as Christopher Wren, Peter Zumthor, Alvar Aalto, Robert Venturi and Carlo Scarpa. Aimed at students, scholars, and researchers in architecture and beyond, this illustrated volume collates important and wide-ranging essays tracing the definition, scope and methodologies of architectural and environmental studies, with a foreword by Susannah Hagan.
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Critical Care
How architecture and urbanism can help to care for and repair a broken planet: essays and illustrated case studies. Today, architecture and urbanism are capital-centric, speculation-driven, and investment-dominated. Many cannot afford housing. Austerity measures have taken a disastrous toll on public infrastructures. The climate crisis has rendered the planet vulnerable, even uninhabitable. This book offers an alternative vision in architecture and urbanism that focuses on caring for a broken planet. Rooted in a radical care perspective that always starts from the given, in the midst of things, this edited collection of essays and illustrated case studies documents ideas and practices from a...
The Urban Refugee
The presence of the refugee in the contemporary metropolis is marked by precarity, a quality that has become a characteristic feature of the neoliberal urban milieu. Bringing together essays from diverse disciplines, from architectural history to cultural anthropology and urban planning, this collection sheds light on both the specificities of the contemporary urban condition that affects the refugees and the multi-dimensional impact that the refugees have on the city. The authors propose investigating this connection through three interlinked themes: identity (informality, imagination and belonging); place (transnational homemaking practices); and site (the navigation of urban space). In re...
