Property Development and Progressive Architecture
The New Alliance
Architectural Design (Series Nr. 167)
1. Edition January 2004
128 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Short Description
Progressive building design in projects as diverse as multifamily buildings, hotels, and offices is being championed by the surprising new alliance of architects and for-profit building developers. Property Development and Progressive Architecture describes the "new alliance" forged by architects better prepared to take a proactive role in property development and property developers mindful of the value of memorable architecture. Contributors will explore the economic and demographic influences that are driving the architect-developer alliance in Tokyo and Melbourne and the rise of "celebrity" architecture in New York and Tokyo. With eye-catching photographs, high-profile interviews with leading figures in architecture and property development as well as entertaining criticism, this stimulating book poses-then validates-this central question: Are we better off for this new alliance?
Today, a 'new alliance' is being forged between designers and commercial property developers who are championing progressive design, in projects as diverse as apartment blocks, houses, hotels and offices.
While some architects are taking a proactive role in property development, other firms are hammering out a new position for themselves as designer-developers. Simultaneously, property developers are starting to recognise the added value that an architect can bring to a project in terms of planning, design quality and creativity.
This issue takes a truly international look at the projects architects and developers are achieving together. It explores the opportunities that are driving the architect-developer alliance in Hong Kong, London, Tokyo and Melbourne, as well as the marketing potential of design excellence in New York.
'Property development has to be market driven and certainly not product driven. The architect can creatively add great value to the developers' commercial objectives by design - in doing so he can achieve his architectural agenda at the same time." Ken Yeang.
"Thank goodness the old guard is dying of obsolescence. Our cities will revel for the evolution." Gregg Pasquarelli, SHoP/Sharples Holden Pasquarelli
Architecture in Developer Land (Jayne Merkel).
Calculated Risk (Sara Moss).
Building Design (David B Sokol).
A Tower of Damnation (Aimee Molloy).
Brit in the Big City (David B Sokol).
Risky Business (Eddie Jones).
Calibrating the Commercial Potential: An Interview with John Ritblat (Jeremy Melvin).
Reconciling the Irreconcilable? The Architecture of Ken Yeang (Helen Castle).
A Housing Boom Embraces High Design (Masaaki Takahashi).
Melbourne (Low) Rising (Leon van Schaik).
Inter(Nation)al (Stephen Varady).
Homes for China (Laurent Gutierrez and Valérie Portefaix).
In the Kingdom of the Netherlands: A Province of Architecture (Hans Ibelings).
How Swede Is It? (Patrick Amsellem).
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Interior Eye Architectural Bias Crimes (Craig Kellogg).
Building Profile Peace Memorial Park Bowling Pavilion, Wigston, Leicestershire (Jeremy Melvin).
Some Place Like Home: Using Design Psychology to Create Ideal Places Toby Israel
Engineering Exegesis A Digital Pedagogy for Learning Structures (Shahin Vassigh ).
Practice Profile estudio teddy cruz (Denise Bratton).
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Site Lines Light (Leon van Schaik).
