Senses of Architecture
Senses of Architecture is a groundbreaking book that challenges the traditional approach to design by emphasizing the often overlooked senses. It explores how engaging all our senses-touch, smell, sound, and even taste-can enhance our experience of spaces, sparking a new wave of inspiration and intrigue among architects and designers. The book urges architects and designers to awaken these dormant senses, often neglected in modern design, to unlock a deeper understanding and appreciation of spaces. By moving beyond a purely visual approach, Senses of Architecture offers innovative solutions that make structures more dynamic and captivating. Senses of Architecture is not just a theoretical exploration, but a practical guide that empowers architects and designers. Through insightful guidance and practical examples, the book equips them with valuable tools for incorporating sensory experiences into architectural projects. It encourages a holistic approach to design and invites clients to consider designs that engage all the senses.
Historic Ornament, Treatise on Decorative art and Architectural Ornament
The London and Country Builder's Vade Mecum, or, The Complete and Universal Estimator
Designing Trans-Generational Urban Communities
This book examines the inclusiveness of city planning and design to address gaps in policies, strategies and design guidelines for developing trans-generational urban communities in India.
Indigenous Architecture in India
This volume focuses on socio-spatial practices of indigenous communities in India. It explores the interrelation between the built environments and lifeworlds, i.e. practices, patterns, and structures of everyday life.
Earth 2035
Earth2035 is a compelling and visionary nonfiction work exploring humanity's role in the survival of Earth and its ecosystems. Through a philosophical and scientific lens, the book presents the challenges facing our planet-climate change, overpopulation, unsustainable growth, pollution, and biodiversity loss-while proposing intelligent, actionable solutions through global cooperation. Using the unique concept of the "Logic of Scale," the author urges readers to understand their role in succession, sustainability, and intelligent choice-making. This is not just a book; it is a call to action for the sake of future generations and the survival of life as we know it.
Post-War Public Housing and Well-Being
This collection illustrates the evolving role of housing as a symbol of modernity, a tool for economic recovery, and a response to societal transitions. It argues that understanding earlier efforts to integrate well-being in the 20th century can provide valuable insights for contemporary actors in the built environment who are working to address these issues today. As such, it explores and shines light on this lesser-known history, drawing on case studies it focuses on the intersection of public housing, well-being, and social change in the aftermath of the Second World War. With case studies from the UK, US, Singapore, Japan, Germany, China, and Spain, this volume provides insights into how these countries have shaped the values, designs, and institutions of their dwellings. By incorporating diverse cultural contexts, it contributes to a nuanced understanding of housing dynamics and well-being. Through a multidisciplinary lens, this volume encourages a re-evaluation of living conditions and fundamental values, emphasizing the dynamic interplay between humans, their social environment, and diverse living environments.This book is essential for scholars, researchers, professionals, students, policymakers, and practitioners in cultural history, architecture, planning, urban studies, sociology, education, and public policy.
Digital Twin Technology for Better Health
"Digital twin technology for Better Health: A Healthcare Odyssey " explores the cutting-edge intersection of healthcare and digital twin technology. In today's rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, the integration of digital twin technology is poised to revolutionize patient care, medical research, and healthcare operations. Digital innovations have the potential to reshape patient care, streamline clinical processes, and enhance medical research. Among these innovations, the concept of "Digital twin" has emerged as a game-changer, offering unprecedented opportunities for personalized and data-driven healthcare. This book is a comprehensive guide that delves into the principles, applications, challenges, and future prospects of digital twin technology within the healthcare sector. The book begins with an introduction to the concept of Digital twin and their historical evolution, followed by an exploration of their adaptation and implementation in healthcare. It presents case studies and real-world examples, showcasing how Digital twin are being used to replicate and simulate patient-specific conditions, medical devices, and entire healthcare ecosystems. It will cover a wide range of topics, including: Introduction to Digital twin: An overview of what Digital twin are and how they work in healthcare. Applications in Clinical Care: Exploring how Digital twin are used in the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of patients. Healthcare Operations: Discussing how Digital twin are optimizing healthcare operations, including hospital management and supply chain logistics. Personalized Medicine: Examining how Digital twin enable personalized treatment plans and drug discovery. Data Security and Ethics: Addressing the critical issues of data privacy and ethical considerations in healthcare Digital twin. Future Directions: Speculating on the future of Digital twin in healthcare and their potential to transform the industry further. Readers will gain insights into the diverse applications of Digital twin in healthcare, including personalized treatment plans, predictive diagnostics, surgical simulations, and the optimization of hospital operations. The integration of Digital twin in healthcare is an evolving phenomenon that promises to redefine patient care and clinical research. However, there is currently a significant gap in the literature on this subject. This book aims to bridge that gap by providing an in-depth analysis of the concept and its real-world applications. Ethical considerations and data security in the healthcare-digital twin ecosystem are also discussed. The book delves into the role of emerging technologies such as IoT, AI, and data analytics in enhancing the efficacy of Digital twin. It addresses the unique challenges and regulatory aspects associated with implementing Digital twin technology in healthcare, offering readers a balanced perspective.
Faith Buildings in the City of London
The square mile of the City of London today has 46 Faith Buildings; each a treasure-house of art and architecture and each with its own distinct character and story. Through previously unpublished archival images and a compelling narrative that demystifies their architectural history, this book asks what do we want these buildings to be, what and who are they for, and why should we care about them? By exploring them through the seasons, we are invited to get to know these precious places better and to consider the fundamental question, what is it that makes space sacred? The most elusive and emotive of architectural qualities, atmosphere, is used uniquely here to address this question, and to better understand the significance of this fascinating group. Uncovering their personalities, histories and architectural qualities, the reader is invited to take a journey of reflection and discovery, and to see through fresh eyes a set of spaces handed to us by the ancestors, that reside in and encapsulate our shared collective memories, and that have been there all along, hidden in plain sight and waiting for you, just one step away from the busy city streets.
Urban Landscape Priorities, Opportunities and Prospect
Cities and towns continue to evolve and are utilizing a range of planning and design strategies in urban landscapes that focus on climate change, social accommodation and livability. All of the strategies are potential influences on future urban experience and identity. In order to produce positive results, communities are applying urban planning and design concepts based on current and future environmental prospects. The result is a range of concepts aligned with numerous planning and design standards for urban viability, now and in the future. Urban Landscape Priorities, Opportunities and Prospect is unique in addressing current priorities and opportunities as standards for the future quality of urban landscape initiatives. A key standard is inductive, bottom-up context applications that produce livable and sustainable urban landscape contexts. Current participants in this vision are planners, designers and fine artists. The result is a text that emphasizes priorities, opportunities and potential prospects as interrelated planning and design influences on current and future urban landscapes.
Project Development & Documentation (PDD) ARE 5.0 Exam Guide (Architect Registration Examination)
The Expressway World
In the demonology of the contemporary city, is there anything more toxic than the expressway? Dividing neighbourhoods, depressing land values, concentrating atmospheric pollutants, the mammoth infrastructure of the expressway is now increasingly crumbling into the ground. How did we build the expressway world in the first place? And what are we going to do now with it now? This eye-opening book explores these questions partly through the great expressway abolitions of recent years, such as Boston's Central Artery (buried and covered by a park) and Seoul's Cheonggyecheon (replaced with an artificial river). But the book also uncovers the hidden stories of expressways that have become weird attractions in their own right, from London's Westway to S瓊o Paulo's Minhoc瓊o, celebrated in art and literature. Above all, the book proposes, counterintuitively, that we find ways to live with the expressway world and to adapt it to a different future, inspired by the many examples where people have already reinvented this challenging legacy on their own terms. Engaging with case studies across the world and recent thinking in the environmental humanities and architectural theory, this is a thought-provoking invitation to reconsider the most maligned structures of the recent urban past.
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