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Imrie, Rob; Street, Emma - Architectural Design and Regulation - 9781405179669 - V9781405179669
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Architectural Design and Regulation

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Description for Architectural Design and Regulation Governments are placing increasing emphasis on design codes, building regulations, and planning statements to guide the conduct of architects, and to fashion much more of the design process but there has been little research on what architects feel and think about this, and how it is affecting what they do and their daily patterns of work. Num Pages: 376 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 178 x 24. Weight in Grams: 970.

From the earliest periods of architecture and building, architects’ actions have been conditioned by rules, regulations, standards, and governance practices. These range from socio-cultural and religious codes seeking to influence the formal structure of settlement patterns, to prescriptive building regulations specifying detailed elements of design in relation to the safety of building structures. In Architectural Design and Regulation the authors argue that the rule and regulatory basis of architecture is part of a broader field of socio-institutional and political interventions in the design and development process that serve to delimit, and define, the scope of the activities of architects.

The book explores how the practices of architects are embedded in complex systems of rules and regulations. The authors develop the understanding that the rules and regulations of building form and performance ought not to be counterpoised as external to creative processes and practices, but as integral to the creation of well-designed places. The contribution of Architectural Design and Regulation is to show that far from the rule and regulatory basis of architecture undermining the capacities of architects to design, they are the basis for new and challenging activities that open up possibilities for reinventing the actions of architects.

Product Details

Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405179669
SKU
V9781405179669
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Imrie, Rob; Street, Emma
Rob Imrie is Professor of Geography at King's College London. He is author and co-author of five books, and has written widely in international journals on issues ranging from urban policy and regeneration to disability and the built environment. His background is in geography, sociology, and planning studies and he has a doctorate in industrial sociology. Emma Street has recently completed a doctorate in urban geography at King's College London. Her background is in geography, and she has a masters' degree in public policy. Her research interests include, urban planning and politics, the role of the private sector in place-shaping, and architecture and the built environment.

Reviews for Architectural Design and Regulation
"These are minor points about an excellent and ground-breaking book, which will be essential reading for those researching architectural practice, regulation, design professions and planning, and also for those with an interest in discourses of creativity and cultural production. Architectural design and regulation contributes much to our understanding of the practices and situated knowledges of architects vis-à-vis regulation and so in turn about the ways in which the urban fabric is shaped." (Area, 15 August 2013) "In some ways the excellently researched Architectural Design and Regulation is about this tension between unfettered creativity and a more predictable world prescribed and circumscribed by a system of join-the-dots and colour-by-numbers regulation." (Urban Studies, 22 May 2015)

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