Buildings, Culture and Environment: Informing Local and Global PracticesISBN: 978-1-4051-0004-5
Hardcover
416 pages
October 2003, Wiley-Blackwell
Other Available Formats: E-book
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With accelerating change towards globalisation, the efficacy of
design solutions not embedded within regional culture has been
prone to failure - technically, socially and economically.
Environmental problems and questions surrounding how to achieve a
sustainable built environment are now posing urgent challenges to
built environment practitioners and researcher. However,
international cooperation in setting targets and standards as well
as an increasing exchange of environmental information and
practices present designers, clients and occupants with new
problems that comprise local needs and the built environment.
This book addresses the role regional culture play in the
successful (or otherwise) process of exchanging and adapting
environmental practices and standards in the built environment.
Using the specific case of the design of environmentally sound
buildings, the book identifies a number of issues from different
perspectives:
- The conflict between regionally appropriate environmental building practices within a global technical and economic context.
- How human, social and cultural expectations limit technological advances and performance improvements.
- To what extent information on environmentally progressive buildings can be transferred across cultures without compromising regional and local practices.
- Which ideas travel successfully between regions – generic principles, specific ideas or specific solutions?