Loose-Fit Architecture : Designing Buildings for Change.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the Guest-Editor -- Introduction: Long Life, Loose Fit, Low Energy -- Environmental Legislation, Building Regulations and Tax Credits -- Large-Scale Speculative Urbanisation -- Grass-Roots Urbanisation -- The Architecture of Time -- Notes -- Back to the Future: The Everyday Built Environment in a Phase of Transition -- ARCHITECT AS HERO -- LEARNING FROM THE PAST -- WORKING WITH THE EVERYDAY ENVIRONMENT -- CHALLENGING ACADEMIA -- Notes -- Learning from the West Coast: Long-Termism and Change: An Interview with Stewart Brand -- Falling Out of Love with Buckminster Fuller -- Working for Governor Jerry Brown -- Shifting to the Larger Scale -- Notes -- NEUBAU: Flexible Self-Build Cities in Germany -- THE HAMBURG PROTOTYPE -- THE CITY OF ASSEMBLY -- A SOLUTION FOR THE HOUSING CRISIS? -- Notes -- Japanese Innovation in Adaptable Homes -- Tax Incentives to Promote Longevity -- Technical Innovations Promoting Adaptability -- Loose-Fit and a Declining Workforce -- Notes -- Adaptability: A Low-Carbon Strategy -- Adaptation versus New Build -- Adaptability and Circularity -- Valuing Choices -- Notes -- Four Decades of Open Building Implementation: Realising Individual Agency in Architectural Infrastructures Designed to Last -- Pioneering Projects -- Open Building Enters Public Policy -- The Next Stage -- Notes -- The Fetish of Flexibility: Farrell/Grimshaw Partnership, 125 Park Road, London -- Notes -- Flexible Architecture for Evolving Work Practices -- The Social Workplace -- Embracing Incompleteness -- Notes -- System Separation: A Fitting Strategy for Future Development -- INO: A UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BUILDING -- VONROLL UNIVERSITY BUILDING -- A FLEXIBLE AND SUSTAINABLE BUILT ENVIRONMENT -- Dead and Dying Shopping Malls, Re-Inhabited -- MEDICAL MALLS AND OFFICE SPACE.

MEGACHURCHES AND ETHNIC MALLS -- SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY COLLEGES -- THINKING INSIDE THE BOX -- Notes -- Shaping Mexico City: Evolutionary Housing for Low-Income Urban Families -- The Rise and Stall of Vecindades -- The Act of 'Building' while 'Dwelling' -- Success Story? -- Notes -- Educational Innovation through Building Adaptation -- Continuing Growth and Change in Global Education -- Place Matters -- The Adaptation Ladder -- Long Life, Loose Fit, Low Energy -- Visionary Architects and Clients -- Notes -- Revolution and Evolution: The Architectural Association -- Historical Development -- Building the Future: the Wright &amp -- Wright Masterplan -- Continuing Relevance -- Notes -- Continuity and Change: Challenging the Disposable Chinese City -- Loose-Fit as an Urban Strategy for Change -- Recent Reuse and Revitalisation -- Designing Loose-Fit -- Lessons in Loose-Fit -- Notes -- Self-Build and Change: Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong -- Rising Higher -- Taking Control -- Note -- Designing Landscapes for Change: Albertopolis -- A New Axis and Approach to Existing Civic Buildings -- A Landscape for People and Nature -- Counterpoint: Mixing Up the Mediterranean Model: Architecture Amid Urban Flux -- The Archizoom Alternative -- Radical International Interpretations -- Rethinking Urban Real Estate -- The Edges of Mediterranean Modernity -- Contributors -- ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN: LOOSE-FIT ARCHITECTURE -- What is Architectural Design? -- ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN: FORTHCOMING AD TITLES -- EULA.

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