QUALITY OUT OF CONTROL by Allison Dutoit (Editor), Juliet Odgers (Editor), Adam Sharr (Editor) ( 9780415553667 )

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Title:

QUALITY OUT OF CONTROL
STANDARDS FOR MEASURING ARCHITECTURE

By:

Allison Dutoit (Editor), Juliet Odgers (Editor), Adam Sharr (Editor)

Format:

Paperback

List price:	£42.99
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ISBN 10:

0415553660

ISBN 13:

9780415553667

Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

1 January, 2010

Pages:

240

Description:

There is widespread disagreement about what quality in architecture is, and how it can be measured and achieved. This book explores issues of quality in terms of appreciation, production, belief and value. It helps architects and others understand architectural quality and consider its measurement.

Synopsis:

Formerly grounded in values of craftsmanship, in the skilled making of products, 'quality' is now associated with the management of administrative or technical processes. Its appreciation, once based in the exercise of individual judgement and taste, is now often founded on supposedly objective systems of evaluation. Practitioners of design are under pressure to quantify 'quality', but it is questionable whether it is possible or even desirable to do so. This book considers this important issue, looking at how quality is: * defined * appreciated * evaluated * managed * produced. With contributions from eminent architects and architectural critics, this book is for architects, academics, students and anyone interested in what architectural quality is, and how it may be achieved.

Illustrations:

7 black & white tables, 70 black & white halftones

Publication:

Imprint:

Routledge

Returns:

Returnable

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