Architecture beyond criticism : expert judgment and performance evaluation / edited by Wolfgang F.E. Preiser . . .[et al]
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, c2015Description: xxxiv, 285 p . : 26 cmISBN:- 9780415725323 (hbk : alk. paper)
- 9780415725330 (pbk ; alk. paper)
- 720.1 23 ARC
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Content
PART I : Introduction
1. Introduction
PART II : Evolution and role of architectural criticism
2. Identity crisis: estrangement in the evolution of architectural criticism
3. The role of editors as critics
4. Is curating the new criticism?
5. Architectural criticism and radicalism in Brazil
Etc.
PART III : Plurality of perspectives on criticism in architecture
8. Media coverage and users’ reactions: Al Azhar Park in Cairo re-examined
9. The influence of the “milieu” on architectural criticism
10. Architectural criticism and building performance evaluation in Germany
11. Urban conservation projects of Cairo: a critique of the local literature
12. Buildings and their use: the dog that didn’t bark
Etc.
PART IV : Historical review and types of building performance evaluation
14. Historical review of building performance evaluation
15. Building performance evaluation in the UK: so many false dawns
16. Mid-occupancy urbanism in Shanghai: the current state of the site of Expo 2010
17. Architectural criticism meets building evaluation in Japan
18. Architectural critics as another building stakeholder: a global perspective
PART V : Architectural analysis within building performance evaluation
19. Using scientific research methods in assessing visual aesthetic quality
20. Performing the urban form-based codes as a method of architectural critique
21. The socio-cultural context of architectural criticism and performance evaluation
22. Quality assessments in health care environments
23. Building performance evaluations and universal design
Etc.
PART VI : Epilogue
25. Talking the talk: about architecture
Includes bibliographical references and index p. 278 - 285
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