{"title":"Books by Avi Friedman","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781032368214","title":"Sustainable Housing in a Circular Economy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book relates circular economy principles to housing design and construction and highlights how those principles can result in both monetary savings, positive environmental impact, and socio-ecological change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapters focus on three key circular economy principles and apply them to architectural construction and design, namely rethinking of the end-of-use phase of a building and the potential of design-for-disassembly; the role of digitization and data standardization in fostering evidence-based circular economy design decision-making; and presenting space as a resource to conserve, via exploration of the sharing economy and flexibility principles. Beyond waste management and material cycles, this book provides a holistic understanding of the opportunities across the building life cycle that can allow for sustainable and affordable circular housing. With case studies from 13 different countries, including but not limited to the Hammarby Sjöstad district in Sweden, the Circle House in Denmark, Benny Farm in Canada, VMD Prefabricated House in Mexico, and the Deep Performance Dwelling in China, authors pair theoretical frameworks with real-world examples.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis will be a useful resource for upper-level students and academics of architecture, construction, and planning, especially those studying and researching housing design, building technology, green project management, and environmental design.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295965262197,"sku":"9781032368214","price":41.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781032368214_878acda0-26c1-4f47-b43c-9c6a72fabfd9.jpg?v=1786017428"},{"product_id":"9780500343487","title":"Pre-Fab Living","description":"This survey of the world’s most innovative and successful examples of pre-fabricated homes explores the full range of possibilities, open to anyone seeking to find clever and up-to-date solutions for building their own home. From net-zero houses to plug-and-play dwellings and converted shipping containers, each chapter explores the varied and exciting ways that architects and designers are using pre-fabricated technology to address today’s living and world challenges. A reference section includes in-depth essays, which explore the latest manufacturing methods, trends and technologies, presenting a wide range of possibilities to suit every need, taste and desire.   Richly illustrated with photography and drawings, with projects selected by a long-time expert in pre-fab architecture, this fresh take on new solutions presents the factory-made house in a new light. Whether designing on a tight budget, crafting something self-sustaining or simply looking for new spatial ideas, this is an essential and future source of inspiration for architects, designers and home-builders. 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This book highlights innovative planning strategies for livability and wellbeing of communities supported by lessons from notable international case studies, addressing varied issues including accommodating elderly populations, designing walkable communities, and closing the affordability gap. Authored by an architecture professor who is also a practicing architect and urban planner, this book navigates the residential design process from site planning to individual home design, emphasizing principles of sustainability. Each of its 20 illustrated chapters focuses on a distinct aspect of residential design that highlights effective solutions for today’s pressing challenges. This book is essential for students of urban planning, architecture, and sustainability, as well as professionals and policy makers.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368450339189,"sku":"9781032960531","price":43.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781032960531_7d263dd6-527c-465d-89a9-b763603065d7.jpg?v=1786017372"},{"product_id":"9781839997600","title":"Affordable Housing for Livable Cities","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book addresses current housing affordability challenges and presents innovative planning and design strategies for contemporary communities and homes that are both livable and affordable. Written by a team of a planner and an architect, each of the book's chapters stands for a subject in the design process moving from urban scale to that of a home and includes richly illustrated case studies that inspire and inform the design. By exploring the role of livability in the design process, the book presents methods of fostering community resilience and opportunity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369329668469,"sku":"9781839997600","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781839997600_2d184139-64cf-4fae-b248-dbc5dd0d1396.jpg?v=1786028202"},{"product_id":"sole-survivor-1","title":"Sole Survivor","description":"\u003cp\u003eChaim Frydman survived the Holocaust. He was the only Frydman who did. In Sole Survivor, architect and academic Avi Friedman travels to Europe to trace his father's journey through the Holocaust and find his family's genesis. He visits the homes, factories, and synagogues in which the Frydmans made their lives and the ghettos and camps in which they were imprisoned and killed. Avi finds powerful stories in interviews, archives, and the built environment itself, illustrating the ways that buildings were made to affect the events that took place in them and how the architecture of the Holocaust remains a haunting memorial to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSole Survivor\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of Chaim Frydman, who fought in the Polish army and returned to survive forced labour, death marches, and the horror of the camps. It is the story of Avram and Rachla Frydman, who raised Chaim alongside seven siblings, of their children and grandchildren, who died in the Łódź ghetto, in the killing centre at Chełmno, in Auschwitz. It is the story of Avi Friedman, witnessing his father's testimony of from the trenches of Gniezno through Birkenau to freedom and discovering himself as the descendent of a family who survived against impossible odds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn sharing the Frydman's history, their experiences, and their testimony, Avi Friedman has created a vital resource for future generations. In sharing his journey and thoughtful exploration of the responsibilities the living bear the dead, he has created a work that will resonate for years to come.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57487774384501,"sku":"9781773856919","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781773856919.jpg?v=1786354999"},{"product_id":"fundamentals-of-innovative-sustainable-homes-design-and-construction","title":"Fundamentals of Innovative Sustainable Homes Design and Construction","description":"This book offers ideas and practices on contemporary design concepts and illustrates them with plans and photographs of outstanding examples. Current planning and design modes of dwellings and neighborhoods are facing challenges of philosophy and form. Past approaches no longer sustain new demands and require innovative thinking. The need for a new outlook is propelled by fundamental changes that touch upon environmental, economic and social aspects.   The depletion of non-renewable natural resources and climate change are a few of the environmental challenges. Increasing costs of material, labor, land and infrastructure have posed economic challenges with affordability being paramount among them. Social challenges are also drawing the attention of designers, builders and homeowners. Walkable communities, aging in place and multigenerational living are some of the concepts considered. In addition, live-work environments have become part of the economic reality for those who wishto work from home—which has become possible through digital advances.   The text would be of interest to scholars working in: architecture, urban planning, and construction.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57492304298357,"sku":"9783031353703","price":139.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783031353703.jpg?v=1786529139"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-avi-friedman.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}