Apartment Building Process: The Making of the Apartment Building in Cyprus

01/09/1998

Student Work, Doctoral Dissertation

Establishing an apartment building process capable of creating dwellings with an increased feeling of “ownership and belonging” to its inhabitants. Describes today’s apartment building problems and works his way in establishing the process to be followed for the creation of more harmonious buildings. Consists of five chapters and 437 pages. Chapter 1: The Apartment Building Design Process. Chapter 2: The Apartment Building Construction Process. Chapter 3: Managing the Construction Process. Chapter 4: Assessing the Apartment Building. Chapter 5: Financial Viability of the Apartment Building.

Authors:

Kyriakos L. Pontikis, University of California Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department of Architecture, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Academic Course

Advisor in the Ph.D. Program in Architecture 1998

Ph.D. Dissertation in Architecture

University Program:

Ph.D. in Architecture

Instructors:

Christopher Alexander

Enrolled students:

Kyriakos L. Pontikis

Heading the committee for the Ph.D. Qualifying Examination and chairing the committee for approving the Doctoral Dissertation submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture.

References

Scientific Research

Design and Construction is one Integrated Making Process

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Construction Process

The design process of a project and its construction process are united into one continuous and intertwined making process, unfolding in a step-by-step sequence. Design ends together with the completion of the construction process. "Making" is a conception of the ...