With accelerating change towards globalisation, the efficacy of
design solutions not embedded within regional culture has been
prone to failure - technically, socially and economically.
Environmental problems and questions surrounding how to achieve a
sustainable built environment are now posing urgent challenges to
built environment practitioners and researcher. However,
international cooperation in setting targets and standards as well
as an increasing exchange of environmental information and
practices present designers, clients and occupants with new
problems that comprise local needs and the built environment.
This book addresses the role regional culture play in the
successful (or otherwise) process of exchanging and adapting
environmental practices and standards in the built environment.
Using the specific case of the design of environmentally sound
buildings, the book identifies a number of issues from different
perspectives:
The conflict between regionally appropriate environmental building
practices within a global technical and economic context.
How human, social and cultural expectations limit technological
advances and performance improvements.
To what extent information on environmentally progressive buildings
can be transferred across cultures without compromising regional
and local practices.
Which ideas travel successfully between regions - generic
principles, specific ideas or specific solutions?How the idea of
regional identity is being redefined as the process of
globalisation both widens and accelerates.
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