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Architecture
Providing care quality by design
Rosica Pachilova discusses a new single measure called Spaces for Communication Index (SCI). Pachilova assesses communication opportunities arising…
Rethinking Intergenerational Housing
Matter Architecture has been working with a grant from Innovate UK over a 12-month period to rethink intergenerational…
Enhancing the Liveability and Resilience of Multi-Unit Residential Buildings
Ted Kesik discusses a framework for guiding the design of multi-unit residential buildings in a Canadian climate, specifically…
Cork Construction Kit
Oliver Wilton discusses the research and development of a new form of solid, dry-jointed construction made of expanded…
Enter the Surface-Interface
Sabina Andron uses the concept of interface to discuss the vertical surfaces of the built environment as interactive…
Shaping Cities in an Urban Age
2.5 billion more people will be living in cities by 2050. Nearly 90 per cent of this growth…
Negotiated modernism: British suburbia between the wars
Barry Curtis Curtis describes the many ways in which forms of tradition infused the design and inhabitation of the…
Public urban management and architectural design
Oscar Brito Gonzalez discusses his work and research into public urban management, planning models, urban and architectural design…
The Temporary City
Most of the professional training, thinking and strategies of architects, urban designers and planners, are strictly three-dimensional. In…
Approaches to Regeneration
Planning in the capital is at a watershed. Development has become almost entirely market-driven and the government’s localism…
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