Since its foundation in 1987, Bennetts Associates has won numerous awards for its work and has established itself in the UK as one of the leading architecture practices of its generation. This is the first book to examine the firm's ethos and the themes behind its buildings. Four aspects of Bennetts Associates' work are considered in depth-Perception, Form, Construction and Process-drawing on over 30 built projects in detail, as well as many others in various stages of design and construction. These projects, include Hampstead Theatre, the Wessex Water Headquarters, Brighton Central Library and the New Street Square development in the City of London.
Each of the underlying themes is examined in turn by four well-known writers or commentators - academics Richard Weston and Peter Carolin, design process theorist Frank Duffy and art consultant Vivien Lovell.

Mathematische Modellierung erhalt als Gegenstand des Unterrichts an Schulen und Hochschulen ein immer starkeres Gewicht. Hierfur gibt es gute Grunde: Fragestellungen der Natur-, Technik- und Gesellschaftswissenschaften ebenso wie Aufgaben in Industrie, Wirtschaft und Verwaltung werden zunehmend - und in vielen Bereichen bereits uberwiegend - unter Verwendung mathematischer Modelle unterschiedlichster Komplexitatsstufen bearbeitet. Modellierung, also die Herstellung eines formalen Abbilds eines Teilaspekts der Wirklichkeit, und die anschliessende Simulation des realen Prozesses zumeist auf dem Computer gehoeren heute zu den Standardwerkzeugen einer hochtechnisierten Gesellschaft. Das Buch bietet eine Einfuhrung in dieses komplexe Gebiet. In zwoelf Fallstudien werden mathematische Modelle unterschiedlichen Schwierigkeitsgrades entwickelt, mathematisch analysiert und hinsichtlich der Relevanz fur den jeweiligen realen Gegenstandsbereich untersucht.

This ground-breaking quarterly aims to act as an international forum for practitioners and academics by publishing cutting-edge work covering all aspects of architectural endeavour. Generously illustrated throughout, Architectural Research Quarterly is edited with busy practitioners and academics in mind. Contents include building design, urbanism, history, theory, environmental design, construction, materials, information technology, and practice. Reviews of significant buildings are published at a length and in a detail matched today by few other architectural journals. Articles in arq 6:3 include: Letters: Research and the RIBA; Lea's Pottery; The 2001 RAE dissected: some facts and figures; No hope, no fear; Clearwater Garden: a study in design research and collaboration; Digital canopy: high-end computation/low-tech construction; Archigram's invisible university; Richard Neutra's Venetian lecture; (Re)examining the Citicorp case: ethical paragon or chimera?; Sligo Air; Book reviews.