arq: Architectural Research Quarterly: Volume 4, Part 3

An international forum for practitioners and academics, publishing research covering all aspects of architectural endeavour.

Peter Carolin (Edited by), Thomas Fisher (Edited by)

9780521794121, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 23 November 2000

96 pages, 80 b/w illus.
29.8 x 21 x 0.7 cm, 0.303 kg

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, Architectural Research Quarterly 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 which aims to provide a lasting and invaluable resource for all. Articles in this issue include: The aesthetics of gravity; The individual and mass housing: the delicate balance; The Atacama desert's last nitrate cities; Following the crowd: spatial layout and crowd behaviour; Building methods in the architecture of Aalvaro Siza.

The needs of sustainability
Cleaning the space syntax spectacles
Research and practice in architecture 2000, Helsinki Anni Vartola
Hillier's visitor's centre, Romsey: a project by David Lea Peter Blundell Jones and Jan Woudstra
On the establishment of new communities: Allerton Bywater and Osbaldwick Fields Doug Clelland
The aesthetics of gravity Pierre von Meiss
The individual and mass housing: the delicate balance Michael Trencher
The Atacama desert's last nitrate cities Eugenio Garcés Feliú
Following the crowd: spatial layout and crowd behaviour Mark David Major and Alan Penn
Building methods in the architecture of Aalvaro Siza Vicenzo Riso.

Subject Areas: Architecture [AM]