Construction: Essays on Architectural History, Theory & Technology

Edited by Nicholas Patricios and Stavros Alifragkis

ISBN: 978-960-9549-61-5, 350 pages

First published in 2012 by ATINER

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Gregory Papanikos		ix
Foreword Nicholas Patricios		xi
1.	Construction: An Introduction Stavros Alifragkis	1
Part A: Histories of Other Spaces
2.	Place Experience of the Sacred: The Topography of Mount Athos Christos P. Kakalis	17
3.	Fantasies of Bathing: Hotel Hamams as Orientalized Stereotypes Burkay Pasin	27
4.	British Civic Architecture in the United States of the Ionian Islands Nicholas Patricios	39
5.	Time Magazine and the Publication of Celebrity Architects Alanya Drummond	59
Part B: Design Approaches and Methodologies
6.	Architectural Technology; The Making of an Academic Discipline Norman Wienand	73
7.	Light and Sustainable Building Envelope Construction: A Meeting Point for Architects and Engineers Matt Fajkus	83
8.	Technological Advances in Design and Construction: Bridging the Gap between the Conception Stage and the Manufacturing Process Mania Aghaei Meibodi	99
9.	Developed Surfaces: Construction Logic and Geometrical Control Vincent Snyder	117
10.	Experience and Illusion: Architecture as a Perceptual Catalyser Luis Alfonso de la Fuente Suárez and Antonio Millán Gómez	137
11.	Self Build Design and Construction Processes and the Future of Sustainable Design Education Eleni Tracada	157
Part C: Sustainable Design: Advances and Case Studies
12.	Social Transformation for a Sustainable Built Environment: Problems and Prospects Matthew Kubik, Patrick J. Ashton and Regina Leffers	175
13.	Residential Design and Regulations for Sustainable Development. An Australian Perspective Marie Elise Marrier d’Unienville	187
14.	The Built-form, the Environmental Performance and the Retrofit Potential of Post-war Urban Dwellings in Greece: The Case of Thessaloniki Despoina Kapodistria	199
15.	A Case Study in Analysis and Improvement of Energy Efficiency in Data Center Xiaoshu Lü, Tao Lu and Martti Viljanen	215
16.	Passive and Active Micro-Generation Building Systems for Cooling and Dehumidification in Hot and Tropical Climates Thomas Spiegelhalter	227
17.	Unique Design and Construction Challenges for a Solar Decathlon House Camilo Rosales and Mohammed Shanti	243
Part D: Novel Building Practices and Construction Techniques
18.	Project Schedule Acceleration Considering Risk Osama Moselhi and Nazila Roofigari-Esfahan	259
19.	A UK and Australian Perspective of the Suitability of the SCL Protocol’s Provision for Dealing with Float for Adoption and Use by the Australian Construction Industry Peter Ward	269
20.	Sustainable Energy Dissipation and Evolutionary Viscous Damping in Wood-Frame Structures Kittinan Dhiradhamvitand Thomas L. Attard	283
21.	Resistance of Supersulfated Cement Concrete to Carbonation and Sulfate Attack Socrates Ioannou, Kevin Paine and Keith Quillin	293
22.	Effect of a Modified Zeolite Additive on the Alkali Silica Reaction of Mortar Bolanle Deborah Ikotun	305
List of Contributors		313
Bibliography		315