arq: Architectural Research Quarterly: Volume 5, Part 2

by Peter Carolin (Editor)

Overview

This ground-breaking quarterly publication acts as an international forum for practitioners and academics by publishing cutting-edge research covering all aspects of architectural endeavour. Fully illustrated throughout, it includes sections on design, history, theory, environmental design, construction, information technology, and practice. Other features include occasional reports, letters pages and an "end feature", Insight. There is also the Architectural Research Quarterly Directory—a listing of specialist research and consultancy with an online, cumulative version.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521001533
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/04/2001
Series:	Architectural Research Quarterly , #5
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	11.73(w) x 8.35(h) x 0.28(d)

Table of Contents

1. The writing on the wall; 2. The grid as generator … the debate continues; 3. Ad majorem gloria me: order out of the chaos of architectural education Andres Duany; 4. Critical issues for architectural practice Robert Gutman; 5. The diagram of the house Hans van der Heijden; 6. Architecture as instauration George Dodds; 7. Our architectural conception of space E. G. Asplund; 8. Energetic geometries: the Dymaxion Map and the skin/structure fusion of Buckminster Fuller's Geodesics Thomas W. Leslie; 9. A true south for design? the new international division of labour in architecture Paolo Tombesi; 10. Writing technicalities Andrew Watts.