Philip Steadman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 672892 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Philip Steadman |
| NOMBRES | Philip |
| APELLIDO | Steadman |
| FIRMA | STEADMAN P |
| AFILIACIONES | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8204-5584 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1973 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Nine ‘myths’ about the building stock of Great Britain
The National Buildings Database (NBD) has been delivered to the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ). This covers the complete population of 2.2 million non-domestic premises and 30 million dwellings in Great Britain (but not Northern Ireland). Each is modelled in detail, in three dimensions, using the 3DStock method. Actual annual meter data are attached. This paper outlines some of the myths about the building stock—its compos…
Graph vision
Net zero retrofit of the building stock
Highlights This special issue explores how the building stock might transition towards net zero, and what key theoretical and practical factors are going to determine the overall potential and shape the transition process. Nine papers explore these issues from a variety of perspectives, while considering retrofit scales ranging from small urban areas to entire national stocks, and potential measures including fabric improvements, changes in occup…
Fifty years of Environment and Planning B
Great journals are mirrors of the personalities of their editors.Nowhere is this more visible than in the history of Environment and Planning B and its two editors-in-chief Lionel March and Mike Batty.I have watched the journal change over the last 50 years.Looking up the early issues, I see that I had the very first paper in the very first issue (Energy conservation measures in building: A survey, Environment and Planning B, v1(1): 3-17)not one …
Albrecht Dürer’s Drawing Devices
In the two editions of his Underweysung der Messung of 1525 and 1538, Albrecht Dürer published designs for four devices to help artists with drawing. The present author has reconstructed all four tools and made experiments, in each case drawing a lute. The paper reports on the problems encountered and the times taken. For comparison, a perspective view of the lute is constructed geometrically, and other drawings are made freehand. The two more co…
Getting to net zero
This paper describes the development of a detailed plan to get the social housing stock of the Borough of Islington in London, UK, to net zero carbon emissions. This stock is very diverse in form, age and construction, and includes houses, flats and maisonettes. A total of 4500 buildings containing some 33,300 dwellings were modelled using the 3DStock method. Six packages of measures combining fabric improvements, heat pumps and photovoltaic inst…
Density and morphology
The density of the domestic building stock of London is explored, moving from the scale of individual house and blocks of flats, through larger geographical units, to complete boroughs. The description of the stock is highly detailed and is made using the 3DStock method, which derives building geometry from digital maps and LiDAR (laser measurements from overflying aircraft). This means that accurate estimates of floor areas can be made and used …
Energy use intensities in London houses
This research compares domestic metered energy data, for both gas and electricity consumption, against characteristics drawn from a building stock model of Greater London, UK. The energy analyses are limited to houses (single-building, single household) with one standard electricity meter and one mains gas meter as the principal subset. This provides a sample of almost 1.2 million, or 75%, of London’s stock of houses. Energy use was normalised by…
Building stock energy modelling in the UK
A brief history is provided of models of energy use in the UK building stock, with the focus on the non-domestic sector. This history leads to an account of the development, since 2009, of the 3DStock method for modelling complete building stocks, both domestic and non-domestic. The paper explains how 3DStock models are built and the data sources used. Special emphasis is placed on the relationship of premises (the floorspace occupied by organisa…
Epilogue
When drawings are copied repeatedly in sequence by different people, they tend to undergo characteristic processes of change. Parts of an image become separated out, the whole design is flattened, the outline is emphasized, and perspective occlusion is removed. The drawing becomes more abstract, more schematic—in a word, more diagrammatic. This article focuses on such drawing processes and on the results of experiments in repeated copying by anth…
And in memoriam, Lionel March dressed up
DStock
This article describes the development of a new three-dimensional model of the British building stock, called ‘3DStock’. The model differs from other 3D urban and stock models, in that it represents explicitly and in detail the spatial relationships between ‘premises’ and ‘buildings’. It also represents the pattern of activities on different floors within buildings. The geometrical/geographical structure of the model is assembled automatically fr…
The Contradictions of Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon Penitentiary 1
The term 'Panopticon' has been used more or less loosely, since Jeremy Bentham first coined the word, to refer to any prison -or indeed any other kind of institutional building -which has a centralised plan and some sort of observation post at the middle. 2But if we take the word to apply more narrowly to cylindrical prisons along the lines that Bentham himself imagined, then very few have ever been built.There were three panopticons erected in H…
Allegory, Realism, and Vermeer's Use of the Camera Obscura
Critics of the proposal that the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer used the camera obscura extensively in making his pictures of domestic scenes have argued that this cannot be the case, since his compositions are not 'photographic snapshots' but are very finely judged and balanced; his subject matter draws on the traditional motifs of Dutch genre painting; and the pictures are filled with complex allegorical and symbolic meaning. In this paper it i…
Commentaries
April 01 1999 Commentaries Adelheid Mers, Adelheid Mers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Simone Osthoff, Simone Osthoff Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Philip Steadman, Philip Steadman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Allan A. Mills Allan A. Mills Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information A…
The Evolution of Designs
This book tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially buildings. It examines the effects of these analogies on architectural and design theory and considers how recent biological thinking has relevance for design. Architects and designers have looked to biology for inspiration since the early 19th century. They have sought not just to imitate the …
Archigram
The Architect and the Computer
The Geometry of Environment
A Model of Students' Daily Activity Patterns
A model is described whose purpose is to predict the distribution of students in different activities and locations during the course of a typical day, depending on the effective restrictions imposed by the spatial distribution of buildings and sites, and by administrative and social constraints on the timing of activities. The model is of an entropy-maximising type; the data against which it is tested are drawn from time budget surveys made in t…
A Model of Students' Daily Activity Patterns
A model is described whose purpose is to predict the distribution of students in different activities and locations during the course of a typical day, depending on the effective restrictions imposed by the spatial distribution of buildings and sites, and by administrative and social constraints on the timing of activities. The model is of an entropy-maximising type; the data against which it is tested are drawn from time budget surveys made in t…
Energy use intensities in London houses
This research compares domestic metered energy data, for both gas and electricity consumption, against characteristics drawn from a building stock model of Greater London, UK. The energy analyses are limited to houses (single-building, single household) with one standard electricity meter and one mains gas meter as the principal subset. This provides a sample of almost 1.2 million, or 75%, of London’s stock of houses. Energy use was normalised by…
Building stock energy modelling in the UK
A brief history is provided of models of energy use in the UK building stock, with the focus on the non-domestic sector. This history leads to an account of the development, since 2009, of the 3DStock method for modelling complete building stocks, both domestic and non-domestic. The paper explains how 3DStock models are built and the data sources used. Special emphasis is placed on the relationship of premises (the floorspace occupied by organisa…
The Geometry of Environment
A Model of Students' Daily Activity Patterns
A model is described whose purpose is to predict the distribution of students in different activities and locations during the course of a typical day, depending on the effective restrictions imposed by the spatial distribution of buildings and sites, and by administrative and social constraints on the timing of activities. The model is of an entropy-maximising type; the data against which it is tested are drawn from time budget surveys made in t…
Archigram
The Architect and the Computer
The Evolution of Designs
This book tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially buildings. It examines the effects of these analogies on architectural and design theory and considers how recent biological thinking has relevance for design. Architects and designers have looked to biology for inspiration since the early 19th century. They have sought not just to imitate the …
Commentaries
April 01 1999 Commentaries Adelheid Mers, Adelheid Mers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Simone Osthoff, Simone Osthoff Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Philip Steadman, Philip Steadman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Allan A. Mills Allan A. Mills Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information A…
Allegory, Realism, and Vermeer's Use of the Camera Obscura
Critics of the proposal that the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer used the camera obscura extensively in making his pictures of domestic scenes have argued that this cannot be the case, since his compositions are not 'photographic snapshots' but are very finely judged and balanced; his subject matter draws on the traditional motifs of Dutch genre painting; and the pictures are filled with complex allegorical and symbolic meaning. In this paper it i…
The Contradictions of Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon Penitentiary 1
The term 'Panopticon' has been used more or less loosely, since Jeremy Bentham first coined the word, to refer to any prison -or indeed any other kind of institutional building -which has a centralised plan and some sort of observation post at the middle. 2But if we take the word to apply more narrowly to cylindrical prisons along the lines that Bentham himself imagined, then very few have ever been built.There were three panopticons erected in H…
DStock
This article describes the development of a new three-dimensional model of the British building stock, called ‘3DStock’. The model differs from other 3D urban and stock models, in that it represents explicitly and in detail the spatial relationships between ‘premises’ and ‘buildings’. It also represents the pattern of activities on different floors within buildings. The geometrical/geographical structure of the model is assembled automatically fr…
And in memoriam, Lionel March dressed up
Epilogue
When drawings are copied repeatedly in sequence by different people, they tend to undergo characteristic processes of change. Parts of an image become separated out, the whole design is flattened, the outline is emphasized, and perspective occlusion is removed. The drawing becomes more abstract, more schematic—in a word, more diagrammatic. This article focuses on such drawing processes and on the results of experiments in repeated copying by anth…
Building stock energy modelling in the UK
A brief history is provided of models of energy use in the UK building stock, with the focus on the non-domestic sector. This history leads to an account of the development, since 2009, of the 3DStock method for modelling complete building stocks, both domestic and non-domestic. The paper explains how 3DStock models are built and the data sources used. Special emphasis is placed on the relationship of premises (the floorspace occupied by organisa…
Density and morphology
The density of the domestic building stock of London is explored, moving from the scale of individual house and blocks of flats, through larger geographical units, to complete boroughs. The description of the stock is highly detailed and is made using the 3DStock method, which derives building geometry from digital maps and LiDAR (laser measurements from overflying aircraft). This means that accurate estimates of floor areas can be made and used …
Energy use intensities in London houses
This research compares domestic metered energy data, for both gas and electricity consumption, against characteristics drawn from a building stock model of Greater London, UK. The energy analyses are limited to houses (single-building, single household) with one standard electricity meter and one mains gas meter as the principal subset. This provides a sample of almost 1.2 million, or 75%, of London’s stock of houses. Energy use was normalised by…
Getting to net zero
This paper describes the development of a detailed plan to get the social housing stock of the Borough of Islington in London, UK, to net zero carbon emissions. This stock is very diverse in form, age and construction, and includes houses, flats and maisonettes. A total of 4500 buildings containing some 33,300 dwellings were modelled using the 3DStock method. Six packages of measures combining fabric improvements, heat pumps and photovoltaic inst…
Fifty years of Environment and Planning B
Great journals are mirrors of the personalities of their editors.Nowhere is this more visible than in the history of Environment and Planning B and its two editors-in-chief Lionel March and Mike Batty.I have watched the journal change over the last 50 years.Looking up the early issues, I see that I had the very first paper in the very first issue (Energy conservation measures in building: A survey, Environment and Planning B, v1(1): 3-17)not one …
Albrecht Dürer’s Drawing Devices
In the two editions of his Underweysung der Messung of 1525 and 1538, Albrecht Dürer published designs for four devices to help artists with drawing. The present author has reconstructed all four tools and made experiments, in each case drawing a lute. The paper reports on the problems encountered and the times taken. For comparison, a perspective view of the lute is constructed geometrically, and other drawings are made freehand. The two more co…
Graph vision
Net zero retrofit of the building stock
Highlights This special issue explores how the building stock might transition towards net zero, and what key theoretical and practical factors are going to determine the overall potential and shape the transition process. Nine papers explore these issues from a variety of perspectives, while considering retrofit scales ranging from small urban areas to entire national stocks, and potential measures including fabric improvements, changes in occup…
Nine ‘myths’ about the building stock of Great Britain
The National Buildings Database (NBD) has been delivered to the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ). This covers the complete population of 2.2 million non-domestic premises and 30 million dwellings in Great Britain (but not Northern Ireland). Each is modelled in detail, in three dimensions, using the 3DStock method. Actual annual meter data are attached. This paper outlines some of the myths about the building stock—its compos…
Computer Science (13 obras) · Art (7 obras) · Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (6 obras) · Engineering (6 obras) · Architecture and Computational Design (5 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras) · Stock (firearms (5 obras) · Civil engineering (4 obras) · Epistemology (4 obras) · Mathematics (4 obras)