RED Research into Environment and Design UEL Project: environmentallydriven urban design Site: Sao P

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MA ARCHITECTURE SUSTAINABILITYDESIGN ava
university of east london
The programme is a critical examination of
environmental sustainability and environmental
design. Integration of theory and practice
is achieved through design projects at
the architectural and the urban scale, as the
environmental loops continuously between
both.
RED
Research into Environment and Design UEL
Project environmentally-driven urban design
Site Sao Paulo
Partners
University of Sao Paulo, University
of Birmingham

www.uel.ac.uk/ava/links/index.htm research
centres s.k.hagan_at_uel.ac.uk
sustainability, environmentalism and the
architect what is 'nature?' modernism and
'post-imperial' modernism the new and the
renewed vernacular and bioclimatic architecture
materials and materiality defining sustainable
architecture 1 symbiosis defining sustainable
architecture 2 differentiation defining
sustainable architecture 3 expression digital
vs physical modelling
the ideal city, the sustainable city and the
architect the compact city densification,
intensification and centralisation loving the
suburbs for and against the highrise blurring
the boundaries field theory, ecosystems and
cities emptiness landscape and urban
agriculture case studies Malmo, Sao Paulo,
London digital city cyberspace and urban space