Architecture when weighed against economic analysis, the design steers towards a sound approach. Like many enterprises, the profession of architecture is very much driven by the market’s laws of demands and supply. An architect produces services towards production of goods which is based on client’s expectation and is supported by financial and other means. [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2013
What is the real Capital?
While the economics is concerned with making choices in the wake of scarcities and attempts to answer the three fundamental questions of what goods and services are to be produced, how to produce these goods and services and for whom. Being part of the agents for change and ensuring sustainability, Architects have a vital role [...]
Posted in Economics of Sustainability, Hriday Siddarth Saini Comments closed
After the 50th in the USSR begins large-scale company against the excesses and architecture returns to the utilitarianism holding just the engineering status. Since then in the dwelling the tendencies of technological oversimplification are set. Widespread predominance of the typical planning and design (if I can use this term) formed special urban policy. It is characterized by massive construction [...]
Posted in Economics of Sustainability, Elena Mitrofanova Comments closed
React on the growth
To work with the complexity of the city we (as architects) have to know the value of all the underlying layers of the building environment; social, economic, political, and legal structure and related public policies, to make sure that our building and design are as powerful statements as possible. It is a fact that the [...]
Posted in Economics of Sustainability, Tobias Grumstrup Lund Øhrstrøm Tagged complexity, Economics of Sustainability, growth, sao paulo Comments closed
Sustainability – Win or Win Situation
Often a building is only thought as an equipment inside the area that it’s implemented, but it is impossible to separate it from it’s surroundings. The construction of any building directly influences the infrastructure of cities.
Posted in Economics of Sustainability, Raphael Teixeira Libonati Comments closed