1st Edition

Inventing the Built Environment Planning, Science, and Control in British Architecture

By Juliana Yat Shun Kei Copyright 2024
160 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

160 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

160 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Why and how was the term ‘built environment’ first introduced? Inventing the Built Environment retrieves the origin of this ubiquitous term. The articulation of the ‘built environment,’ Kei demonstrates, coincided with the redefinition of education, research, and professional practices in architecture and town planning in 1960s Britain. Concentrating on the half-decade during which the term... Read more

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introducing the Built Environment                                                    

1 Planning the Built Environment                                         

2 Writing the Built Environment                                           

3 The Environmental Education                                            

4 Controlling the Built Environment                                                 

5 Modelling the Built Environment                                                   

6 Realising the Built Environment                                        

The Environments After        

Index                                                  

Biography

Juliana Yat Shun Kei is a Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Liverpool. Her works investigate the use and abuse of environmental notions in architecture, with a focus on 20th-century British architecture. This interest is derived from her previous research into the post-modern and preservation turn of British architecture through the career of British South-African architect Theo Crosby. Her upcoming project, building on this current research on the invention of the ‘built environment,’ examines the changes in British architecture and urbanism engendered by the establishment of the Department of the Environment in 1970. Her other research focuses on Hong Kong’s architectural and urban culture. With Daniel M. Cooper, she completed a survey of the disappeared Vietnamese refugee camps in Hong Kong in 2022. She is a co-founder of the Hong Kong Design History Network.