Design by Competition: Making Design Competition Work - Brossura

Nasar, Jack L.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521029708 ISBN 13: 9780521029704

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Riassunto

This book looks at design competition architecture from a social, psychological and public policy perspective.

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Descrizione del libro

This innovative book looks at design competition architecture from a social science, psychological and public policy perspective. It shows the flaws of competition architecture, and highbrow architecture in general, for the consumer, and it offers a scientific approach to make design results more meaningful and functional to the public.

Contenuti

List of illustrations and tables; Introduction; Part I. Background: 1. The Wexner Center competition; 2. What do we know about architectural competitions?; 3. Meaning matters; Part II. Evaluations: 4. Managing meaning through visual quality programming; 5. Popular evaluations of the Wexner Center entries; 6. Popular evaluations of the completed building; 7. Working in a work of art: a postoccupancy evaluation of the Wexner Center; Part III. Prescriptions: 8. Model for running design competitions; 9. Toward a new democratic architecture; Appendices; References; Index.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521029708
• ISBN 13: 9780521029704
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 260
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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