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The Professional Work of Hinge Objects: Interprofessional Coordination in Urban Drainage

open access: yesProfessions and Professionalism, 2018
Recent developments in sustainable urban drainage have turned the area, formerly controlled by engineers, into a professional field encompassing engineers, landscape architects, and urban planners. Through interviews, fieldwork, and docu-ment analysis of
Marie Leth Meilvang
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Exceptional Photorheological Switching of Solventless Polymer Networks Enabled by Precisely Architected Flexible Star Polysiloxanes

open access: yes
We report the synthesis and photoresponsivity of precisely designed star-shaped poly(dimethyl siloxane) (PDMS) with anthracene end groups. These materials exhibit rapid ON–OFF photorheological switching with a greater than 25,000-fold change in the storage modulus.
Satoshi Honda, Yi Zhang
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Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Influencing Factors of Wood Consumption in China’s Construction Industry

open access: yesBuildings
Wood is a natural and high-quality material for green and low-carbon buildings, and it is increasingly winning the favor of architects and consumers against the background of “dual carbon”.
Xiaojuan Yang, Jie Xu, Sidong Zhao
doaj   +1 more source

The Tokyo Olympics 2020 Sport Stadium Controversy: Exploring the Role of Star Architects and Global Brands

open access: yes, 2018
The Olympics is a contested site of sovereignty in terms of power balancing between the political (government), economic (global capitalism), cultural (iconic architects) entities and citizens. The paper focuses on iconic Olympic stadia designed by star architects in the era of global capitalism and explores the shifting and multifaceted identities of ...
openaire  

Stratégies de distinction. Les architectes français et la tentation du "star-system"

open access: yes, 1996
Dans la problématique des enjeux de positionnement et des modalités d'accès à la reconnaissance voire au pouvoir, l'architecture, du fait qu'elle est un "art sur commande", présente une particularité intéressante. Les architectes ont en effet à se situer par rapport à des processus bien connus dans les domaines artistiques comme la distinction ou la ...
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Digital technologies and healthcare architects' wellbeing in the National Health Service Estate of England during the pandemic. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Med Technol, 2023
Chrysikou E   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Les faiseurs de ville et la littérature : lumières sur un star-system contemporain et ses discours publics. Des usages de la littérature au service de l'action des grands architectes-urbanistes

open access: yes, 2010
In the current project, we analyzed the process through which contemporary stars of architecture and urban planning legitimize their actions on the city. In particular, we investigated their different uses of literature and the different functions they play in their public speeches.
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Understanding reticence to occupy free, novel-design homes: A qualitative study in Mtwara, Southeast Tanzania. [PDF]

open access: yesPLOS Glob Public Health, 2023
Meta J   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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