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This text presents a comprehensive analysis of emerging office design practice to support and enhance the performance of knowledge workers. It explains how the office is being reinvented to respond to the imperatives of knowledge work, as well as the changing social imperatives and technology of the new millennium.
Zaha Hadid's highly inventive and seemingly unbuildable designs have defied conventional ideas of architectural space and construction. The BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany, is no exception. It is the heart of the BMW factory complexthe dynamic focal point of the entire plant that visually, physically, and experientially sustains a sense of animation and motion. With an audacious and abstracted geometry of forms and lines, the BMW Central Building challenges the notion of building as static and is definitive evidence of architecture as art. Zaha Hadid: BMW Central Building, the seventh volume in the Source Books in Architecture series, provides a comprehensive look at this instant modern masterpiece.
Even in her very early work, Zaha Hadid made innovative use of graphic techniques such as penetration, distortion, curvature, strongly reduced perspectives, to portray her architectural designs from a refreshing new angle. In this way her unmistakeable concepts of architectural space originated, and it is no surprise that the London architect makes full use of the full range of possibilities afforded by today's electronic design tools to create her inimitable forms. This present publication documents the most important of her recent projects, revealing how Zaha Hadid has risen to the digital challenge. Patrik Schumacher teaches at the Architectural Association in London.
Zu Beginn einer Krankenhausplanung sollte eine sorgfältige Analyse und Planung aller Faktoren stehen, die einen effizienten und zukunftsfähigen Krankenhausbetrieb ermöglichen. Dem Architekten und Planer kommt hierbei eine Schlüsselfunktion zu. Diese Fachbuch setzt genau dort an und zeigt Methoden und Werkzeuge auf, um im frühesten Planungsstadium durch aktive Vernetzung aller beteiligten Disziplinen und Interessengruppen integrale Planungskonzepte zu entwickeln.
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"What would you do to advance the cause of peace in this mad world?" An outstanding group of professionals in psychology, psychiatry, sociology, political science, law, education, journalism, philosophy, and the arts answer this question, working with the concepts and tools of their fields to build a plan or model for behaviours that are likely to advance man toward peace and nonviolent change. They provide a rich sampling of the new ideas for human life that are needed if we are, in fact, ever to evolve into a more peaceful species. The book grew out of a series of sessions organized and chaired by Israel Charny at the annual meetings of the American Ortho-psychiatric Association and the Am...
Traditional office work, characterized by repetitive clerical tasks, is rapidly giving way to "knowledge work," characterized by the creative application and exchange of information. In response, architects around the world are leaving aside the old cubicle grid to design innovative, high-tech offices that foster knowledge work and, at the same time, help workers balance the competing demands of colleagues, customers, and family. The forty-three exceptional workplaces profiled in this timely volume were all completed within the last six years and serve a wide variety of organizations both private and public, small and large. Examples range from the headquarters of an advertising firm where o...
Die Krankenhauslandschaft in Deutschland befindet sich in einem tiefgreifenden Wandel. Seit Jahren ist die Anzahl der Häuser rückläufig und viele zentrale Indikatoren haben sich deutlich verändert. Als Ursachen für den Wandel sind Megatrends zu erkennen, die eine Herausforderung für die Zukunftsentwicklung darstellen. Die bauliche Bedarfsplanung ist in diesem Zusammenhang ein wichtiges Steuerungselement für die Entwicklung von Krankenhausimmobilien. Auf Basis der Ergebnisse von Experteninterviewserien und einer Literaturanalyse werden in diesem Buch Methoden für spezielle Anwendungsfälle abgeleitet und erste Ideen zur Anpassung von Bedarfsplanungsmethoden an konkrete Bauvorhaben im Krankenhausbau entwickelt. Das Buch bietet somit eine Hilfestellung für Klinikbetreiber und Bedarfsplaner für die Vorgehensweise und Schwerpunktsetzung bei Baumaßnahmen an Krankenhausgebäuden. Gleichzeitig ist das Buch auch für die Forschung relevant, das es eine Grundlage für die zukünftige Anpassung und Weiterentwicklung von Bedarfsplanungsmethoden ist.