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  Links of interest to IAPS members

If you have suggestions for new links, please send them to: Ombretta

Disclaimer:
All links below are posted as a courtesy of IAPS to facilitate the exchange among scholars and practitioners. IAPS cannot be held accountable for the content of the recommended webpages as IAPS did not scrutinize their information. IAPS does not take responsibility for the content, the validity, and the quality of the information or the rigor of the research included in the referred sites. In other words, all links on this platform are in no way officially approved by IAPS. All responsibility is with the owner of each referred site.

Debate on environment-behaviour studies - design/placemaking
   
Prize/competitions

This is a fantastic opportunity open to students of architecture all over the world. The underlying theme is that ARCHITECTURE IS A SOCIAL ART, so if you are a member of IAPS you will appreciate the pervasiveness behind it. My students have taken part to the competition for now 3 years, have won in some cases and have really enjoyed the experience. I sincerely recommend it to all teachers- Ombretta Romice

This is an extract from their statement of intentions:

"Through essay writing and a travel fellowship, the Berkeley Prize Endowment educates architects-in-training that the smallest act of building has global implications: that design can and does play a major role in the social, cultural, and psychological life of both the individual and society at large..." Read more on the website

   
Discussions
Databases, collections of research findings, case studies
  • Architecture Centre Network. http://www.architecturecentre.net/
    Architecture Centre Network acts as the catalyst for Architecture and Built Environment Centres in the United Kingdom and collaborators nationally and internationally. Click on: Links to leink to European and world-wide Architecture centres.
  • Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE): www.cabe.org.uk
    The government's (UK) advisor on architecture, urban design and public space. This is a good resourse for Job adverts.
  • Center for Sustainable Building Research - http://www.csbr.umn.edu/
    This site includes a variety of material on building evaluation and has been posted by Julie W Robinson from the University of Minnesota.
  • Enable Age - http://www.enableage.arb.lu.se
    A forum to examine, in a European perspective, the home environment as a determinant for autonomy, participation, well-being and health in old age and by this create recommendations for healthy housing solutions across Europe.
  • Enabler Website - http://www.enabler.nu
    This website concerns the Enabler, a concept and method for measuring and assessing accessibility in the physical environment. It provides tools for professional assessment of accessibility problems.
  • Human- environment research laboratory: http://www.aces.uiuc.edu/~herl/
    Green environments researcher Frances Kuo has produced a series of evidence-based studies of the beneficial effects of green surroundings, and a richly illustrated popular, accessible version of the same material, aimed at potential users.
  • InformeDesign: http://www.informedesign.com
    The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) provided funding and initiated a major program to develop a web-based resource of good research translated into language more familiar to designers. The InformeDesign covers many journals but is selective in the research that it summarizes, choosing only the most interesting, current and relevant articles.
  • Informedesign: http://www.informedesign.umn.edu
    InformeDesign site which is a summary of design-oriented research. and has been posted by Julie W Robinson from the University of Minnesota.
  • The Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
    http://www.ids.ac.uk
    It is a leading global organisation for research, teaching and communications on international development.

  • Institute for Research in Construction (Canada): http://irc.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
    contains newsletters, best practices, design guides.
  • Making places: http://www.making-places.info/Places/
    Landscape architect Anne Beer has developed a very thorough site on evidence-based design.
  • Polis. Urban Consulting. http://www.polis-city.com/
    Polis is the alliance of specialists consulting all issues of public space.
  • Project for Public Slaces. http://www.pps.org/
    PPS is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating and sustaining public places that build communities.

  • Research Design Connections:
    http://www.researchdesignconnections.com
    It ranslates recent research findings into a form readily applicable by architects, interior designers, industrial designers, landscape architects, facility managers, and other practitioners.
  • RUDI: www.rudi.net
    Resources for Urban design Information - This is a good resourse for Job adverts.
  • SAPLING: http://www.sapling.org.uk/
    Sapling is the Architecture, Planning & Landscape INformation Gateway - featuring more than 700 reviewed links to architecture, planning and landscape-related websites. By Graham Soul
Education
  • FIDER - Foundation for Interior Design Education Research: http://www.fider.org/
    has required that interior design students receive instruction in this area.
   
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