About This Book
AHMM is a premier international architectural practice. Established over 30 years ago, it has won numerous awards including the Stirling Prize. Through the contributions of journalists, clients, fellow professionals and academics, this AD issue celebrates the practice's achievements in all areas of architectural production, featuring archive material, new works and unparalleled access to the AHMM organisation, revealing new insights into their work and urban philosophies.
To get to this eminent position, the office has consistently responded in innovative and imaginative ways to the changing imperatives of art, science and economics that influence our built environment. These parameters have metamorphosed considerably since AHMM was founded, in terms of advances in digitisation, material science and changes to contract management, what constitutes sustainability, procurement routes, construction methods, collaboration and architectural education.
Above all this AD will explore AHMM's practice as a holistic design project in itself, in terms of building buildings, but also in using a design ethos to cope with shifts in workload and the firm's varying business activities and its administration over the years, thus providing insight for a future generation of potentially successful architectural professionals.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- About the Guest-Editors
- Urban Artefacts: Developing the Delightful City
- Setting The Stage: Dressing It and Making the Props
- Continuity With a Difference: Rising to Prominence
- Very Much an English Story
- The Extra Ordinary: Some Thoughts on Architecture and the Theatre of Everyday Life
- Reimagining the Home
- A Passion to Repurpose: Flexibility for the Future
- Opening Up Educating Institutions, Opening Up Methodologies
- Ă La Recherchedâ AHMM
- The Invention of Projects that Create an Address
- Being Signicant: The Problem of What We Cannot Measure
- Colourful Collaboration: Creating Joyous Ambiences
- Environmental Design From the Intuitiveto the Parametric
- A Symbiotic Relationship: Reminiscences of the Family
- The New Establishment: Politics and Performance
- From Another Perspective: Old Buildings, New Architecture: Richard Grifths Architects
- Contributors
- What is Architectural Design?
- Architectural Design
- Forthcoming AD Titles
- EULA