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| Schindler Award inspires new "Approaches to the Built Environment" A series of lectures inspired by the Schindler Award has been published as a book, under the editorship of Professor Wolfgang Christ of the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. "Access for All – Approaches to the Built Environment" consists of 13 essays, based on lectures given at the Bauhaus University, which won the Schindler Award schools' prize in 2006. Prof Christ and his team used some of the €25,000 prize money to develop the lectures, which were very well received. The book explains that access and accessibility are central themes in architecture and urbanism. Like the Schindler Award itself, the book is based on the idea that the urban landscape must be made accessible, from individual buildings, to city blocks and neighbourhoods, to entire cities themselves. For the authors, access is both a physical concept – understood as barrier-free mobility – as well as a social and political one, extending to knowledge and education, to media such as the internet, to healthcare and other services. write your comments about the article :: © 2009 Construction News :: home page |