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Christopher Platt

Architects on Dwelling

Christopher Platt

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English
Park Books
01 February 2022
Architectural structure & design; Residential buildings, domestic buildings
An inspirational reader that highlights how profoundly the place we live in matters to our well-being and what social responsibility architects have in creating the built environment. While most books on architecture focus on the architectural outcome itself, Architects on Dwelling takes a close look at how that outcome is created. To design any kind of dwelling, architects draw on both their reservoir of ideas as well as their own experiences as fellow inhabitants of such structures. This book explores how architects design the places we inhabit and how those places in turn inform the manner in which we live, in ways beyond lifestyle and personal taste. Through contributions by Stephen Hoey, Henry McKeown & Ian Alexander, James Mitchell, Stacey Philips, Christopher Platt, Adrian Stewart, and Miranda Webster - most of whom are Scotland-based practitioners as well as teachers in The Glasgow School of Art - it reveals the unique values and qualities that inform their design processes. In their essays, they focus mostly on one exemplary building, explaining how and why they design the way they do. Dick van Gameren, Simon Henley, and Graeme Hutton, distinguished experts and themselves architect-educators, place this work within an international context and provide insightful comment about what these design approaches inform us about contemporary design in Scotland. Complemented with a wide range of images, these essays both illuminate the architects' motivations and inspirations and celebrate their featured works. Taken as a whole, Architects on Dwelling reminds us how profoundly the place we live in matters to our well-being, and of the social responsibility architects have in creating the built environment in general and dwellings in particular. AUTHOR: Christopher Platt is an architect and co-founder of Glasgow-based firm Studio KAP. He is also Chair of Architecture at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art. SELLING POINTS: . Ten Scotland-based architects and teachers of architecture write about how and why they design the way they do . An inspirational reader that also highlights how profoundly the place we live in matters to our wellbeing, and what social responsibility architects have of the built environment 35 colour, 205 b/w illustrations
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Imprint:   Park Books
Country of Publication:   Switzerland
Dimensions:   Height: 249mm,  Width: 170mm, 
Weight:   446g
ISBN:   9783038602385
ISBN 10:   3038602388
Pages:   144
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Unspecified

Christopher Platt is an architect and co-founder of Glasgow-based firm Studio KAP. He is also Chair of Architecture at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art.

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