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unusual facts about built environment



Will Alsop

Alsop was a tutor of sculpture at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London for several years, and has held many other academic posts, among others at the Vienna University of Technology, Universities of London and Hannover, and actively promotes the artistic contribution to built environments.


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African-American neighborhood

Shotgun houses are an important part of the built environment of some southern African American neighborhoods.

Architech

It resides within the Department of Architecture, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, under the Faculty of Built Environment.

Children's geographies

The earliest work done on children's geographies largely can be traced to William Bunge's work on spatial oppression of children in Detroit and Toronto where children are deemed as the ones who suffer the most under an oppressing adult framework of social, cultural and political forces controlling the urban built environment.

Crisis in the Built Environment: The Case of the Muslim City

Crisis in the Built Environment: The Case of the Muslim City, a book by King Faisal University professor Jamel Akbar, describes the urban environment in the Traditional Muslim city, according to form of control and submission, rather than by visual elements.

Donald Stoltenberg

In 1975 he authored two educational texts, Collagraph Printmaking and The Artist and the Built Environment, both published by Davis Publications of Worcester, Massachusetts.

Global Alliance on Accessible Technologies and Environments

The Global Alliance on Accessible Technologies and Environments (GAATES) is an international not-for-profit organization that promotes accessibility of technologies and the built environment, and the principles of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Harold McGraw III

In 1999, McGraw and his father Harold McGraw, Jr. accepted the Honor Award from the National Building Museum on behalf of the McGraw-Hill Companies, which were recognized for their contributions to the U.S.'s built environment.

Lizabeth Cohen

Building on her interests on architecture, planning, and the built environment, the book is particularly noteworthy for its engagement with earlier work on the politics of suburbanization by scholars like Kenneth T. Jackson.

Michigan Architectural Foundation

At the ceremony, the foundation commended Rocco Romano, author of Architecture: It's Elementary, a guide book for elementary school teachers who are teaching children about the built environment.

Roland Institute of Technology

Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like bridges, roads, canals, dams, and buildings.

Salvatore Dierna

He was one of the first people to diffuse in Italian culture the concepts of Environmental Sustainability and Environmental Design, but also the concepts linked to landscape-environmental requalification strategies related to the built environment.

Singapore Institute of Architects

The Singapore Institute of Architects (Abbreviation: SIA; Chinese: 新加坡建筑师学会) is a professional organization established in 1961 with the objective to promote the architectural profession and the built environment in Singapore.

Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

Research is concentrated in five Research Focus Areas: "Nanostructured Materials," "Sustainable Built Environment," "Materials for Health and Performance," "Natural Resources and Pollutants," and "Materials for Energy Technologies."