Saturday, April 28, 2007

Human Factors in Environmental Design: An Introductory Approach to Architecture, Ashraf Salama (1998)



HUMAN FACTORS IN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN: AN INTRODUCTORY APPROACH TO ARCHITECTURE

ASHRAF SALAMA

The Anglo Egyptian Publications (1998)
ISBN# 977-05-1824-7





This book presents a whole that aims at the student with little or no experience in environmental design. It emphasizes the strong relationship between human factors and environmental design. The book is based on several ideas and approaches developed by several theorists in the field, with an attempt to simplify those ideas for beginning design students. It includes four chapters: 1) Design, Culture, Architecture, and the Human Science; 2) Design Components of the Built Environment; 3) Designing Built Environments; and 4) Concepts and Principles in Architecture and Urban Design.
Architecture-Urbanism is dedicated to a) those who are interested in creating livable and sustainable environments and buildings that meet socio-cultural and socio-behavioral needs of people, environments that are responsive to historical, traditional and physical constraints, b) to those who are interested in finding panacea for the ills of our globalized world, and c) to those who are interested in regaining what cultures and societies have lost by the acts of architects. ____________________________________________________________________________