Department of Architecture
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This institution has 42 media items.
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Alex Ely "Patterns and Parameters"
ABSTRACT:
There are certain universal conditions of a city and of housing that, if codified, can help architects and planners achieve a successful outcome. 'Urbanity', by...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2010 Michaelmas Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Mon 28 Feb 2011
Charlie Peel "Facing up to rising sea levels: Retreat? Defend? Attack?"
ABSTRACT:
The work looks at the long-term future of our coastal cities, and different strategies to react positively to the problem of rising sea-levels. We took three different...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2010 Michaelmas Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Mon 28 Feb 2011
Dr Andong Lu "Cinematic Mapping: the Observation and Documentation of Urban Space"
ABSTRACT:
Since early use of its documentary power (e.g. Mumford 1939), in the 1970s film has become a primary tool for observing and analyzing the real city (e.g. Banham 1972;...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2010 Michaelmas Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Mon 28 Feb 2011
Dr Felipe Hernandez "Housing the Poor in Latin America: Changing Attitudes towards Urban Informality"
ABSTRACT:
This seminar will examine four case studies that show the innovative ways in which contemporary architects throughout Latin American are responding to the challenge of...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2010 Easter Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Sun 26 Sep 2010
Dr Haim Yacobi "From Terra Nullius to Terra Incognita and Back: Israeli Architect in Africa 1956-1973"
ABSTRACT:
This presentation will critically explore Israel’s past involvement (1956-1973) in Africa, with a special focus on the involvement of three architects in planning and...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2011 Lent Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Tue 1 Mar 2011
Dr Jason Palmer "UK Housing Policy: Putting Carbon to the Fore?"
ABSTRACT:
For forty years the Government has tried to cut energy use in UK homes. Energy efficiency in housing has always jockeyed with other priorities, but recent concerns...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2010 Michaelmas Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Mon 28 Feb 2011
Dr Karl Kropf "Urban Morphology and Design Theory: open up from the inside out"
ABSTRACT:
We have reached a point where the whole of the built environment has been claimed as the historic environment and all development is subject to the standards of...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2010 Michaelmas Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Mon 28 Feb 2011
Dr Ken Yeang "Ecological Design and Planning"
ABSTRACT:
The premise is that there is no one single best approach to achieving green design, but a number of ways to arrive at the same goal. The presentation presents five...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2010 Easter Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Sun 26 Sep 2010
Dr Kiril Stanilov "Tracing the Growth of Cities: Investigations of Spatial Patterns and Determinant Forces"
ABSTRACT:
The presentation discusses methods of investigating urban growth patterns illustrated with a number of case studies from the UK, USA and Europe. These studies rely on...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2011 Easter Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Fri 26 Aug 2011
Dr Patrick Malone "A Future for Urban Design"
ABSTRACT:
This paper will examine how urban design might be defined, and how the current confusion of architectural and elemental approaches might be reformed as theorists...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2011 Lent Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Tue 1 Mar 2011
Dr Peter Kellett "Constructing the Contemporary City: Informal Housing Processes in Latin America"
ABSTRACT:
Our understanding of how cities are planned and produced is being challenged by the expanding cities of Latin America. Here the majority of new construction is in the...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2010 Easter Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Sun 26 Sep 2010
Dr Runming Yao "Urban Microclimate Studies - Numerical and Experimental"
ABSTRACT:
This presentation introduces a research project involving numerical and experimental studies carried out at the University of Reading, UK, which is funded by the UK...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2010 Michaelmas Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Mon 28 Feb 2011
Emily So "Lessons from Earthquakes"
Abstract: Tremendous progress has been made in earthquake science and engineering in the past decades. However, fatalities and injuries due to earthquakes continue to dominate...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2012 Lent Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Tue 24 Apr 2012
Geometry and Atmosphere: the conundrum of building for the Arts
A film exploring the issues involved in the design and delivery of recent UK theatres, including the Contact, Manchester; the Lowry, Salford; Poole Arts Centre; Curve, Leicester;...
Collection: Designing Dynamic Environments for the Performing Arts
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Thu 3 Feb 2011
James Keirstead "Modelling Approaches to Urban Energy Systems: Optimization, Simulation, and More"
Abstract: Cities account for approximately two-thirds of global primary energy demand and accordingly, there has been an increased focus on modelling urban energy supply and...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2012 Lent Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Tue 24 Apr 2012
John Sergeant "Platforms and Displacement as Design Strategy"
ABSTRACT:
All buildings modify their sites, some radically. There will be other sites from which material came and to which it goes. Carbon and other costs now reward a strategy...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2011 Lent Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Tue 1 Mar 2011
Katie Jenkins "An Integrated Approach to Modelling the Direct and Indirect Impacts of Heatwaves in London"
Abstract: Heatwaves are associated with large impacts on human health and mortality, as well as having economic repercussions. The direct impacts of heatwaves can subsequently...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2012 Lent Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Tue 24 Apr 2012
Kevin Fellingham "Forgetting Architecture"
Abstract: The Woodland Cemetery was designed and constructed over a period of 25 years, by Sigurd Lewerentz and Gunnar Asplund and in its completed form bears very little...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2012 Lent Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Tue 24 Apr 2012
Mary Ann Steane "Dark thoughts: light and architecture since electricity"
Abstract: In 1924, during the decade in which electricity first became readily available throughout Europe and the U.S., and accompanying the rise of international modernism, Le...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2011 Michaelmas Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Fri 13 Jan 2012
Peter Clegg "Pushing the Environmental Boundaries of Architecture: Three Recent Projects"
ABSTRACT:
Theory · Research · Practice · Evaluation
As a practice we have always been interested in blurring the distinctions between research and practice, and in learning from...
Collection: Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 2011 Easter Term
Institution: Department of Architecture
Created: Wed 31 Aug 2011
