Series: Open Building

Open Building for Architects is an internationally recognised approach to the design of buildings and building complexes, with roots in the way the ordinary built environment grows and regenerates. The Open Building approach recognises that both stability and change are realities to be managed in the contemporary built environment. Buildings—and the neighbourhoods they occupy—are not static during the most stable...

Open Building for Architects by Stephen H. Kendall and N. John Habraken presents an internationally recognised approach to the design of buildings and building complexes, rooted in the way the ordinary built environment grows and regenerates. The Open Building approach acknowledges that both stability and change are factors to be managed in the contemporary built environment. Buildings and the neighbourhoods...

This edited collection provides an up-to-date account, by a group of well-informed and globally positioned authors, of recently implemented projects, public policies, and business activities in Open Building around the world. Countless residential Open Building projects have been constructed in a number of countries, some without knowledge of the original theory and methods. These projects differ in architectural style, building...

This edited collection provides an up-to-date account, by a group of well-informed and globally positioned authors, of recently implemented projects, public policies, and business activities in Open Building around the world. Countless residential Open Building projects have been built in a number of countries, some without knowledge of the original theory and methods. These projects differ in architectural style, building...

This book offers, for the first time, access to the chronological arc of John Habraken’s writing in a single collection. Few architects or scholars have so consistently and patiently pursued such a humane and culturally vital set of radical questions related to the behaviour of the built environment as N. John Habraken. From the publication of his first book in...