Title Loose-fit architecture : designing buildings for change / guest-edited by Alex Lifschutz

Published Oxford : John Wiley & Sons, 2017

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Description 1 online resource ( 144 pages) : color illustrations, color plans Series Profile ; number 249 Architectural design ; volume 87, number 05 Profile (Chichester, England) ; no. 249 Architectural design (London, England : 1971) ; v. 87, no. 5 Contents About the guest-editor / Alex Lifschutz -- Long life, Loose fit, low energy / Alex Lifschutz -- Back to the future: the everyday built environment in a phase of transition / John Habraken -- Learning from the West Coast: Long-Termism and Change: an interview with Stewart Brand / Peter Murray -- NEUBAU: Flexible self-build cities in German / Anne-Julchen Bernhardt and Jörg Leeser -- Japanese innovation in adaptable homes / Kazunobu Minami -- Adaptability: a low-carbon strategy / Simon Sturgis -- Four decades of open building implementation: realising individual agency in architectural infrastructures designed to last / Stephen Kendall -- The fetish of flexibility: Farrell/Grimshaw Partnership, 125 Park Road, London / Edwin Heathcote -- Flexible architecture for evolving work practices / Despina Katsikakis -- System separation: a fitting strategy for future development / Giorgio Macchi -- Dead and dying shopping malls, re-inhabited / Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson -- Shaping Mexico City: evolutionary housing for low-income urban families / Andrea Martin and Jorge Andrade -- Educational innovation through building adaptation / Alexi Marmot -- Revolution and evolution: the Architectural Association / Clare Wright -- Continuity and change: challenging the disposable Chinese city / Renee Y. Chow -- Self-build and change: Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong / Ian Lambot -- Designing landscapes for change: Albertopolis / Kim Wilkie -- Mixing up the Mediterranean model: architecture amid urban flux / Luca Molinari Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record Subject Brand, Stewart. Architectural design. Motion in architecture. Architecture and technology. Architecture and society. Sustainable buildings -- Designs and plans. Architecture, Modern -- Designs and plans. Genre/Form Architectural drawings. Form Electronic book Author Lifschutz, Alex, editor, author Habraken, N. J., author Brand, Stewart, interviewee Murray, Peter, 1944- interviewer, author Bernhardt, Anne, author Sturgis, Simon, author Heathcote, Edwin, author Dunham-Jones, Ellen, 1959- author Williamson, June, author Martín, Andrea (Martín Chávez), author Andrade Narvaez, Jorge, author Marmot, Alexi, author Chow, Renee Y., 1955- author Lambot, Ian, author Wilkie, Kim, author Molinari, Luca, author ISBN 9781119152651 (electronic bk.) 1119152658 (electronic bk.)

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