Peter G. Rowe – författare

East Asia today is a hotbed of urban expansion. Cities such as Singapore, Taipei, Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing and Shanghai are expanding at a prodigious rate, and this ongoing process of expansion and modernization is bringing rapid and widespread change to this part of the globe.Peter G. Rowe’s East Asia Modern is a timely comparative study of urban expansion in the region, examining the processes by which new city building has taken place in recent years. The author, well known in the field of East Asian architecture and urbanism, focuses on how the modernizing process might most usefully be understood, especially with regard to building processes and projects; and how that understanding differs from other modernizing circumstances. He explains what modernization has meant for the general cultural diffusion of largely Western, ideas, how East Asian urban regions have developed their own distinct kind of modernity, and also what lessons can be learned from the contemporary East Asian experience.The book also provides a historical assessment of the region, showing how cities have developed over the last century and setting into context their individual paths towards modernization. East Asia Modern refutes many of the common misconceptions about life in modern East Asia, and provides a readable, critical assessment of the cities of the region, while also pointing to possible ways forward for the future.

With the onset of the Anthropocene Era, concern for the metabolism of various kinds of settlement has risen appreciably. Of particular concern in the study of architecture and urban design are metabolic contributions of flows of stocks that go into the construction and operation of settlements of one kind or another. This book is about a methodological approach that allows urban settlement patterns to be re-written, as it were, into water, energy and other material flows emanating from original sources in the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and so on, through various stages of transformation during settlement construction and operation and then on to end-of-life activities. In short, the methodology produces a so-called ‘cradle-to-grave’ account of the material aspects of urban settlement from which technological and design proposals can be crafted ameliorating and diminishing adverse impacts, as well as related outcomes such as embodied energy and carbon concentrations so deleterious to climate change and proliferation of other hyperobjects.

Gesamtschau der chinesischen Moderne Rowes dritter Band über die Architektur des Fernen Ostens befasst sich mit der Entwicklung der modernen Architektur und Planung in China und ihren Einfluss auf nationale Transformationsprozesse. Die untersuchten Entwicklungen und Zeiträume reichen vom Fall der Qing-Dynastie im Jahr 9 2 bis zur Proklamation von Xi Jinpings „Chinesischem Traum" Jahre später. Die Untersuchung der Architektur wird mit Entwicklungen in der Stadtplanung bis hin zum „Umbau" der chinesischen Nation als Ganzes in Bezug gesetzt. Das Buch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über moderne chinesische Architektur mit historischen Bezügen und macht den Leser mit einer Vielzahl origineller und einflussreicher Gebäude, bedeutsamer städtebaulicher Entwürfe und deren Architekten und Planern bekannt. Dritter Band zur Geschichte der modernen Architektur im Fernen Osten Wichtiger Beitrag zur Debatte über den Zusammenhang zwischen Architektur und Nationenbildung Von führenden Experten für chinesische Architektur und Stadtentwicklung geschrieben

This book offers a systematic account of the process of designing in architecture. Design thinking can be regarded as a fundamentally different way of knowing the world and a particular form of addressing creative problems. In this publication, the authors undertake to explore multiple and often controversial theoretical stances on the topic. Underlying principles of inquiry are present in all designing and a process takes place involving empathy or listening carefully before storytelling. Prototyping and testing of solutions are illustrated in the book with many examples, seen from different vantage points. In short, design thinking is a way of knowing and enabling being in the world and leads to a better understanding of architecture. Brilliant tour de force through several centuries of design thinking Peter G. Rowe is the internationally renowned author of some thirty books Lavishly illustrated volume with attractive graphic design

This open access book highlights Singapore’s development into a city in which water and greenery, along with associated environmental, technical, social and political aspects have been harnessed and cultivated into a liveable sustainable way of life.

Since Habitat, his seminal experimental housing project constructed for Montreal's Expo 67, Safdie has continued to contribute meaningfully to the development of many building types. Moshe Safdie: Volume Two features an essay by Safdie presenting his thoughts on the significant issues facing architecture today. Complementing this essay are texts by William J. Mitchell, on global practice responding to a wide range of varied local conditions, and Thomas Fisher, on Safdie's books, which, like his buildings, continue to influence the international architecture community.Featured projects include the Salt Lake City Main Public Library, the US Institute of Peace Headquarters and the Peabody Essex Museum in the USA; the Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem, the Yitzhak Rabin Center and the new city of Modi'in in Israel; the Khalsa Heritage Memorial Complex in India and the Guangdong Science Center and the Guangzhou No. 2 Children's Palace in China.