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Arup Associates: UnifiedDesign
Edited by Paul Brislin. Published by Wiley.
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, a radical pan-disciplinary approach that focuses on people from the outset, through the united vision of architects, engineers, artists and social scientists.
The work is introduced by The Guardian’s architecture critic Jonathan Glancey. The Independent’s Jay Merrick examines with Declan O’Carroll of Arup Associates the meaning of unified design, while leading environmental expert and author Herbert Girardet discusses with Michael Beaven of Arup Associates the sustainable agenda that is at the heart of the practice. Author and architect Juhani Pallasmaa reprioritises the importance of the senses in the design of the built environment while Professor Leon van Schaik of RMIT explores memory and spatial intelligence in the creation of architecture.
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