The Pandemic Effect

Ninety Experts on Immunizing the Built Environment

The Pandemic Effect
Blaine Brownell
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h229 x 152mm - 208pg
19 Jan 2023 US
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9781648961649
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Leading architects, designers, materials scientists, and health officials reflect on the influence of COVID-19 on buildings and cities-and propose solutions to safeguard the built environment from future pandemics. COVID-19 caused a significant global disruption of human activities with striking consequences for the built environment, causing an abrupt fear as it relates to architecture and building design. Buildings became magnifiers of contagion instead of shelters for protection. Immunizing the built environment against contagion is a monumental task requiring a variety of approaches and disciplinary expertise at multiple scales of inquiry. In this book, 60 of the world' s leading architects, designers, engineers, materials scientists, and public health experts contribute to an expansive overview of inoculation strategies for today' s world. These approaches are organized according to the primary sites of exposure, generally arranged by scale: surface (materials and tactile interfaces), system (mechanical, plumbing, electrical, and lighting assemblies), space (interior and exterior environments), and society (cities, regions, and the general public). This broad collection of perspectives elucidates the transformations underway in the built environment- and offers design strategies to limit the severity of subsequent pandemics. In this way, the book aims to serve both as a multidisciplinary snapshot of COVID-19' s effects and a guidebook for future-proofing architecture against widespread disease.
"[An] illuminating collection of short essays. . . The short pieces are easy to dip in and out of--each is about a page long--and photos and diagrams show the design principles in action. Smart and creative, this compendium delivers. " - Publishers Weekly
Blaine Brownell is an architect, educator, and researcher of emergent materials and applications. A former Fulright scholar to Japan, Brownell has authored eight books on advanced and sustainable materials for architecture and design. He has written the Mind & Matter column for Architect magazine since 2009, and his work has been published in over 70 architecture, design, science, and news journals including The New York Times, The London Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Nature.

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