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   Globalisation or Regionalism? Friday 27th April 2012

   Friday 27th April 2012  - 10am-1pm

   A panel discussion around the publication of Liane Lefaivre and Alexander Tzonis, Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization: Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World (London/New York: Routledge, 2012)

   This half-day symposium will debate some key ideas around the issues of globalization and regionalism, using the presence of Liane Lefaivre and Alexander Tzonis to discuss their latest book about the subject. The event will be chaired by Murray Fraser, Professor of Architecture and Global Culture at the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture, and among the other contributors will be Dr Yat Ming Loo and Dr Tania Sengupta, both of whom also teach at the Bartlett, and Ricardo Agarez, PhD candidate >>> http://bit.ly/JXuE6M
   
   To book, please send an email to Nadia O’Hare on: n.ohare@ucl.ac.uk  
   
   Entry is free, but tickets must be booked in advance.

   G.04, Wates House
   22 Gordon Street
   London
   WC1H 0QB

   
    

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   Le Corbusier: Beton Brut and Ineffable Space - Interview with author

   Roberto Gargiani, author of Le Corbusier: Beton Brut and Ineffable Space (1940 – 1965): Surface Materials and Psychophysiology of Vision, has been interviewed about his 2011 book, about Switzerland's most famous architect.
    

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   Dewey Thorbeck writes about his new book, ‘Rural Design’

   Take a look at the Rural Futures Lab blog, where author, Dewey Thorbeck, writes about his new book, Rural Design: A New Design Discipline (Routledge, 2012).

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   Routledge Architecture - FREE Newsletter!

   Sign up to our FREE monthly newsletter today and you'll receive information about new books publishing within your area of interest.  What's more, you'll be the first to hear about special offers, promotions and competitions that we're running and you'll gain access to exclusive content from our authors and editors.

5. 

   Featured Author: Professor Simon Unwin

   Professor Simon Unwin is a freelance writer and lecturer based in Cardiff, UK. He is a registered architect but concentrates on writing about architecture and teaching architectural analysis and design. His publications include five books: Analysing Architecture, Third Edition (Routledge, London, 1997, 2003 and 2009); Exercises in Architecture (2012) An Architecture Notebook: Wall (Routledge, London, 2000); Doorway (Routledge, London, 2007); and Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand (Routledge, London, 2010).
    

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   Responsive Environments wins Lifetime Achievement Award

   On Wednesday 15th February 2012, Routledge attended the Urban Design Group (UDG) Awards in London, held at the prestigious 61 Whitehall in London. Routledge were very proud to be one of the sponsers for this event, with awards presented for Best Student, Best Public Sector Project, Best Publisher, Best Practice and Lifetime Achievement. We are delighted to announce that Responsive Environments was awarded this year's Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by the Chair of the Urban Design Group, Amanda Reynolds, and our congratulations go to the authors, Alan Alcock, Paul Murrain, Sue McGlynn and Graham Smith, and editor Ian Bently.
    

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   Pressure on overseas Part II Architecture graduates

   New immigration rules, coming into place in April this year, will be enforcing that overseas Part II architecture graduates will have to be earning over £20,000 in order to stay living and working in the UK.

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   Routledge author Jeremy Till named new head of Central Saint Martins

   Architect, award winning author, and dean of the University of Westminster, Jeremy Till, has been named as the new head of Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London. Please follow this link to read more >>> http://bit.ly/x0VJik

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   Design and Ethics (March 2012)

   This multi-disciplinary books considers how to create design which is at once aesthetically pleasing and also ethically considered, with contributions from fields as diverse as architecture, fashion, urban design and philosophy. The authors also address how to teach design based subjects while instilling a desire in the student to develop ethical work practices, both inside and outside the studio.
    

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    Systemic Architecture (March 2012)

    The book investigates the subject of urban ecology from the perspective of architectural design, engaging its definition at multiple levels, the biological, the informational and the social. The book has two main goals – to discuss the contemporary relevance of a systemic practice to architectural design, and to share a toolbox of informational design protocols developed to describe the city as a territory of self-organization, a new kind of emergent "real-time world-city". Structured in the form of a manual, the authors draw on nearly a decade of design experiments from their ecoLogicStudio practice.
     

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