Bøger af Christopher Day

For Christopher Day, architecture isn't just about the appearance of buildings but how they're experienced as places to be in. Occupants' experience can differ radically from designers' intentions as their concerns and thinking differ. Additionally, multi-sensory ambience, spatial sequential experience and embodied spirit resonate in the human soul. Sustainable design means much more than energy-efficiency: if sustainable buildings don't also nourish the soul, occupant-building interaction will lack care and eco-technologies won't be used efficiently. This major revision of his classic text builds on more than forty years of experience ecological design across a range of climates, cultures and budgets, and 25 years hands-on building.Treating buildings as environments intrinsic to their surroundings, the book explores consensus design, economic and social sustainability, and how a listening approach can grow architectural ideas organically from the interacting, sometimes conflicting, requirements of place, people and situation. This third edition, comprehensively revised to incorporate new knowledge and address new issues, continues Day's departure from orthodox contemporary architecture, offering eye-opening insights and practical design applications. These principles and guidelines will be of interest and value to architects, builders, planners, developers and homeowners alike. Reviews of the first edition ... one of the seminal architecture books of recent timesProfessor Tom Wooley, Architects JournalThe 'bible' of many architects and those interested in architecture.Centre for Alternative Technology... an inspiration to all those who care about the influence of the environment on Man's health and well-being.Barrie May, The Scientific and Medical NetworkAt last an architect has written a sensitive and caring book on the effects of buildings on all our lives.Here's HealthThis gentle book offers a route out of the nightmare of so much callous modern construction. I was inspired.Colin Amery, The Financial Times

This book brings together papers written by a number of experienced international academics who share a passion for promoting research-informed, high-quality pre-service and in-service teacher education that makes a positive difference to the lives of teachers and those of their students.

What determines the outcome for rebels in contemporary African civil wars? How are "victory" and "defeat" measured? Is there any connection between a rebel group's organisation and its fate? Addressing these issues and more, Christopher Day explores the relationship between rebel groups and regime politics in Africa.

Building upon Huberman's classic study, this title probes not only teachers' everyday lives, but also the ways in which they negotiate the pitfalls of professional development and the different life and work 'scenarios' that challenge their sense of identity, well-being and effectiveness.

How does the built environment affect children - their health, their behaviour, education and development? To support them, what do we need to consider and what do we need to do? Can our surroundings foster environmental and social awareness and responsibility? This book aims to answer these questions and offers solutions.

The authors bring together the key issues currently being debated in the educational leadership and management arena. The book has been designed to function as a key text for those involved in leadership training and qualifications.

Shows how to work towards a sustainable environment through socially inclusive processes of placemaking, and how to create places that are nourishing psychologically and physically, to soul and spirit as well as body. This book identifies important principles and illustrates their applicability in a range of situations, price-ranges and climates.

This book concentrates on the 'heart' of teaching - teachers' moral purposes, the nature of care, emotional commitment and motivation that distinguishes the best teaching and the best teachers.

This work takes an holistic view of teacher development, examining the contexts and conditions of teaching and looks at the conditions under which teacher development may be enhanced.

Offers a practical step by step guide to co-design; an increasingly important consideration for architects as they compete for work. This title shows that co-design is not doomed to either conflict or banality if it is managed correctly. It offers practical advice for implementing consensus design.

Christopher Day draws on his extensive experience to explain the key principles of eco-home design, focusing on natural methods rather than expensive technology.

This book examines the nature of successful school leadership: what it is, what it looks like in practice & what are the consequences for schools & pupils.

This book examines the nature of successful school leadership: what it is, what it looks like in practice & what are the consequences for schools & pupils.

This book comprises a fascinating mix of conceptual framing, accounts of purposes and practices, case studies and analyses of best practice from a range of highly regarded writers in the field.