Designing Better Building: Quality and Value in the Built Environment - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415315255 ISBN 13: 9780415315258

Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

Design is widely recognised as the key to improving the quality of the built environment. This well-illustrated book comprises 15 chapters written by leading practitioners, clients, academics and other experts, and presents the latest thinking on what design quality is and how to achieve it. For design practitioners and their clients alike, the book provides evidence to justify greater focus on, and investment in, design. It summarises the benefits that arise from good design - such as, civic pride in the urban environment, the stimulation of urban regeneration, corporate identity, occupant productivity and health in offices, improved learning outcomes in schools, better patient recovery rates in hospitals, as well as reduced environmental impact. And it illustrates these benefits through case study examples. Eight chapters focus on case studies of exemplary buildings in particular sectors - offices, schools, housing, and hospitals - and explain why and how they came to be designed, and the design qualities they exhibit.

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About the Author

Sebastian Macmillan

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415315255
• ISBN 13: 9780415315258
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244
• Editor: Macmillan Sebastian