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  • Performance-Oriented Architecture

    Rethinking Architectural Design and the Built Environment

    by Michael Hensel ...
    Series series Architectural Design Primer
    Architecture is on the brink. It is a discipline in crisis. Over the last two decades, architectural debate has diversified to the point of fragmentation and exhaustion. What is called for is an overarching argument or set of criteria on which to approach the design and construction of the built environment. Here, the internationally renowned architect and educator Michael Hensel advocates an ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Emergent Technologies and Design

    Towards a Biological Paradigm for Architecture

    by Michael Hensel, Achim Menges, Michael Weinstock ...
    Emergence - the process by which new and coherent structures, patterns and properties ‘emerge’ from within complex systemsTraditional architecture starts from the premise that architectural structures are singular and fixed, and however well integrated are separate from their environment and context. Emergence requires that the opposite is true – that those structures are complex energy and ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Grounds and Envelopes

    Reshaping Architecture and the Built Environment

    by Michael U. Hensel, Jeffrey P. Turko ...
    Providing a source of vision for the revitalisation of ground and envelope as spatial elements that can inform the search for embedded locally specific architectures, this book collects essays and projects that each contributes a particular element to what might constitute an integrated and richly nuanced approach to spatial organisation. Projects include:Paulo Mendes da Rocha; Brazilian Pavilion, ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Urban-Rural Dialogue in Green City Design

    Advancing Urban Social-ecological Systems

    Edited by Alessandra Battisti, Michael U. Hensel, Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Urbanization and construction are primary drivers of land cover and land use change, climate change and environmental degradation. Sustainable development seeks to counteract the negative impact of cities and urbanization. Shifting away from the still prevailing human-nature dialectic, social-ecological systems view humans as part of nature, thereby linking biophysical and social factors into a ... Read more

    $280.99 CAD

  • Introduction to Designing Environments

    Paradigms & Approaches

    Edited by Michael U. Hensel, Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel, Claudia R. Binder, Ferdinand Ludwig ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The Designing Environments book series addresses questions regarding necessary environmental transformation in the context of the fast-unfolding environmental crisis. This is done from a broad interdisciplinary perspective, examining the negative impact of human transformations of the environment and providing different inroads towards sustainable environmental transformation with net positive ... Read more

    $204.99 CAD

  • The Changing Shape of Architecture

    Further Cases of Integrating Research and Design in Practice

    Edited by Michael U. Hensel, Fredrik Nilsson ...
    The discipline of architecture is currently undergoing a significant change as professional practice and academia seem to be transforming one another specifically through succinct research undertakings. This book continues the discussion started in The Changing Shape of Practice – Integrating Research and Design in Architecture on architectural offices’ modes of research and lines of inquiry in ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Informed Urban Environments

    Data-Integrated Design for Human and Ecology-Centred Perspectives

    Edited by Ata Chokhachian, Michael U. Hensel, Katia Perini ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book collects ground-breaking works on the actual and potential impact of big data and data-integrated design for resilient urban environments, including human- and ecology-centred perspectives. Comprehending and designing for urban social, demographic and environmental change is a complex task. Big data, data structuring, data analysis (i.e. AI and ML) and data-integrated design can play a ... Read more

    $153.99 CAD

  • Design Innovation for the Built Environment

    Research by Design and the Renovation of Practice

    Edited by Michael Hensel ...
    Today architecture and other fields in the built environment face the steep task of answering complex questions pertaining to sustainability, performance, and adaptability.How are these disciplines to accomplish these difficult tasks at such an immense pace?How might architectural practice renovate itself accordingly?Worldwide it is becoming increasingly clear that different modes of research are ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • The Changing Shape of Practice

    Integrating Research and Design in Architecture

    Edited by Michael U. Hensel, Fredrik Nilsson ...
    Architectural practices worldwide have to deal with increasingly complex design requirements. How do practices acquire the ability to do so?The Changing Shape of Practice provides a handbook of examples for practices that wish to integrate more research into their work and a reference book for students that seek to prepare themselves for the changing shape of practice in architecture.It addresses ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

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    Dimensions of Circularity for Healthy Metabolisms

    Edited by Libera Amenta, Michelangelo Russo, Arjan van Timmeren ...
    Series Book 128 - GeoJournal Library
    This open access book provides new perspectives on circular economy and space, explored towards the definition of regenerative territories characterised by healthy metabolisms. Going beyond the mere reuse/recycle of material waste as resources, this work aims to understand how to apply circularity principles to, among others, the regeneration of wastescapes. The main focus is the development over ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Sustainability Towards a Regenerative Economy

    Edited by Maria Beatrice Andreucci, Antonino Marvuglia, Milen Baltov, Preben Hansen ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This open access book is based on work from the COST Action “RESTORE - REthinking Sustainability TOwards a Regenerative Economy'', and highlights how sustainability in buildings, facilities and urban governance is crucial for a future that is socially just, ecologically restorative, and economically viable, for Europe and the whole planet. In light of the search for fair solutions to the climate ... Read more

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  • Data Journeys in the Sciences

    Edited by Sabina Leonelli, Niccolò Tempini ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This groundbreaking, open access volume analyses and compares data practices across several fields through the analysis of specific cases of data journeys. It brings together leading scholars in the philosophy, history and social studies of science to achieve two goals: tracking the travel of data across different spaces, times and domains of research practice; and documenting how such journeys ... Read more

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