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Life Cycle Thinking for Architectural Design

Life Cycle Thinking for Architectural Design

Keena, Naomi

Hardcover

General Architecture

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 9, 2026

ISBN10: 1032876468
ISBN13: 9781032876467
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 9 2026
Pages: 290
Language: English

This book provides an accessible and holistic understanding of life cycle assessment, allowing readers to build life cycle thinking into their design process.

Life cycle analysis is becoming more commonplace in architectural discourse to understand embodied carbon in buildings. However, life cycle cost analysis and social life cycle analysis are often not considered. By combining these methods of analyses, a clear understanding of the environmental, economic, and social aspects of the entire life cycle of a building and its design emerges. Drawing from seminal texts as well as contemporary thinking on systems theory, urban systems, and ecological analyses, this book frames architectural design processes within the socio-ecological context of 21st-century challenges. It also highlights the role data visualization and data storytelling play in capturing the memory or embodied aspects of a building's life cycle. This is critical for evidence-based decision-making during the design process as well as documenting the temporal scale of a building to allow for future use architecture. Finally, a case study comparing the life cycle of Grand Central Terminal and Pennsylvania Station in New York highlights the environmental, economic, and social costs borne by the demolition and rebuild of Penn Station, and provides a demonstration of how the theory works in practice.

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