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Responsive environments : a manual for designers / Ian Bentley ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Butterworth Architecture, [1985]Copyright date: ©1985Description: 151 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 30 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0750605669 (pbk.)
  • 9780750605663 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 711.4 R.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note -- ch. 1 Permeability -- ch. 2 Variety -- ch. 3 Legibility -- ch. 4 Robustness -- ch. 5 Visual appropriateness -- ch. 6 Richness -- ch. 7 Personalisation -- ch. 8 Putting it all together -- Index.
Summary: Clearly demonstrates the specific characteristics that make for comprehensible, friendly and controllable places; 'Responsive Environments' - as opposed to the alienating environments often imposed today. By means of sketches and diagrams, it shows how they may be designed in to places or buildings. This is a practical book about architecture and urban design. It is most concerned with the areas of design which most frequently go wrong and impresses the idea that ideals alone are not enough. Ideals must be linked through appropriate design ideas to the fabric of the built environemnt itself.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Main library B9 Faculty of Engineering & Technology (General) 711.4 R. (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00012424

Originally published by The Architectural Press, 1985.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ch. 1 Permeability --
ch. 2 Variety --
ch. 3 Legibility --
ch. 4 Robustness --
ch. 5 Visual appropriateness --
ch. 6 Richness --
ch. 7 Personalisation --
ch. 8 Putting it all together --
Index.


Clearly demonstrates the specific characteristics that make for comprehensible, friendly and controllable places; 'Responsive Environments' - as opposed to the alienating environments often imposed today. By means of sketches and diagrams, it shows how they may be designed in to places or buildings. This is a practical book about architecture and urban design. It is most concerned with the areas of design which most frequently go wrong and impresses the idea that ideals alone are not enough. Ideals must be linked through appropriate design ideas to the fabric of the built environemnt itself.

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