{"product_id":"unified-design-isbn-9780470723319","title":"Unified Design","description":"Is the present obsession with the icon and the promotion of image over substance symptomatic of a general trend in contemporary architecture? Arup Associates provides the alternative: unified design. This straightforward, critical reflection on contemporary architecture -- a manifesto of sorts, polemical in parts, philosophical; and determined to set an honest agenda -- is divided into three sections. First, an explanation of unified design. Next, a demonstration of the sustainable agenda that is a the heart of this practice. Finally, a complementary series of essays by respected commentators outside of the practice place the vision of people-focused design in the context of other critical social thought.  Foreword (Gary Lawrence).  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction (Jonathan Glancey).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE: UNIFIED THINKING.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnified Design: A Radical Wholeness (Jay Merrick in conversation with Declan O'Carroll)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlantation Lane: Time and Tide (Arup Associates: Dialogue with Memory)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSustaining Design (Herbert Girardet n conversation with Michael Beaven)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVauxhall Cross Transport Interchange, London (Arup Associates: Sustainable Regeneration.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTWO: THE WORLD OF THE SENSES\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnifying the Senses: Architecture as Lived Experience (Juhani Pallasmaa)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDruk White Lotus School, Ladakh, Northern Himalayas (Arup Associates: Holistic Design in a Climate Extremes).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpatial Intelligence and Place-Making (Leon van Schaik).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHREE: DESIGNING THE WHOLE.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCollaborative Engineering (Arup Associates).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArup Associates: Themes and Ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePicture Credits and Acknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArup Associates 2000-08.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaul Brislin\u003c\/strong\u003e is a principal at Arup Associates, the London-based architectural design studio of Arup Group, the multinational consulting engineering company. Arup Associates is internationally renowned for its multidisciplinary approach to design: architects work alongside structural and environmental engineers in integrated teams.?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book includes contributions from: Jonathan Glancey, the architectural correspondent of \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e; Jay Merrick the architectural correspondent of \u003cem\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/em\u003e; architectural authors Juhani Pallasmaa and Leon van Schaik; as well as from Mike Bevan and Declan O'Carroll, principals of Arup Associates.   In the present obsession with the icon and the promotion of image over substance symptomatic of a general trend in contemporary architecture?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eArup Associates\u003c\/b\u003e provides the alternative: \u003cb\u003eunified design\u003c\/b\u003e, a radical pan-disciplinary approach that focuses on people from the outset, through the united vision of architects, engineers, artists and social scientists. Arup Associates rejects the imposition of an external image: there can be no standard solutions and no predefined styles. Instead, design must evolve from fundamental research and experiential goals, to form a holistic architecture entirely driven by a 'whole life sustainability that maintains  human culture - tradition, religion, the intangible components of humanity - in the face of modernity.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work is introduced by The Guardian's architecture critic \u003cb\u003eJonathan Glancey\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Independent's\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eJay Merrick\u003c\/b\u003e examines the meaning of unified design with \u003cb\u003eDeclan O'Carroll\u003c\/b\u003e of Arup Associates, while leading environmental expert and author \u003cb\u003eHerbert Girardet\u003c\/b\u003e discusses with \u003cb\u003eMichael Beaven\u003c\/b\u003e of Arup Associates the sustainable agenda that is at the heart of the practice. Author and architect \u003cb\u003eJuhani Pallasmaa\u003c\/b\u003e reprioritises the importance of the senses in the design of the built environment while Professor \u003cb\u003eLeon van Schaik\u003c\/b\u003e of RMIT explores memory and spatial intelligence in the creation of architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArup Associates\u003c\/b\u003e was started by Sir Ove Arup more than four decades ago. it is the architectural design studio of the multinational consulting engineering group Arup. The studio has always practised multidisciplinary design, where engineers and architects work side by side. Unified design takes this philosophy into the 21st century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Unified design is a way of today's iconic arms race.' - \u003cb\u003eHans Ibelings\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Unified design proclaims a vital truth for the 21st century, that our most effective designs are achieved as synchronous and synthesising acts of human will and imagination.' - \u003cb\u003eRobert Ivy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990435283173,"sku":"NP9780470723319","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780470723319.jpg?v=1761787816","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/unified-design-isbn-9780470723319","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}