Precisions On The Present State Of Architecture And City Planning

Author : Le Corbusier
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Precisions on the Present State of Architecture and City Planning written by Le Corbusier and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1991 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first English translation of Precisions reproduces the original book published in French in 1930, with an introduction added by the author in 1960. It is a spontaneous and exuberant series of 10 lectures Le Corbusier gave in Buenos Aires during the fall of 1929. As he spoke Le Corbusier improvised drawings on large sheets of paper with crayons. While similar drawings appear in other works, here all the lectures and images appear in their original context as Le Corbusier assembled them. Precisions reflects a new maturity in Le Corbusier's thinking and an extreme confidence in the development of his ideas. The drawings and lectures are unique in their eloquent and concise summary of his philosophy of architecture and urban design, stating the principles that informed his work from the 1920s on. They contain some of his most compelling aphorisms, both verbal and visual, covering technique as the basis of architecture, the human scale in design, furniture, the private house, apartments and office buildings, the city, the League of Nations competition, teaching architecture, and a splendid analysis of the transformation of his own work in houses from La Roche­Jeanneret to the Villa Savoye.

Author : Le Corbusier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Precisions on the Present State of Architecture and City Planning written by Le Corbusier and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kevin Lynch
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262620017
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Image of the City written by Kevin Lynch and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1964-06-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.

Author : Eric Paul Mumford
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300207727
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designing the Modern City written by Eric Paul Mumford and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive new survey tracing the global history of urbanism and urban design from the industrial revolution to the present. Written with an international perspective that encourages cross-cultural comparisons, leading architectural and urban historian Eric Mumford presents a comprehensive survey of urbanism and urban design since the industrial revolution. Beginning in the second half of the 19th century, technical, social, and economic developments set cities and the world's population on a course of massive expansion. Mumford recounts how key figures in design responded to these changing circumstances with both practicable proposals and theoretical frameworks, ultimately creating what are now mainstream ideas about how urban environments should be designed, as well as creating the field called "urbanism." He then traces the complex outcomes of approaches that emerged in European, American, and Asian cities. This erudite and insightful book addresses the modernization of the traditional city, including mass transit and sanitary sewer systems, building legislation, and model tenement and regional planning approaches. It also examines the urban design concepts of groups such as CIAM (International Congresses of Modern Architecture) and Team 10, and their adherents and critics, including those of the Congress for the New Urbanism, as well as efforts toward ecological urbanism. Highlighting built as well as unbuilt projects, Mumford offers a sweeping guide to the history of designers' efforts to shape cities.

Author : Valerie Fraser
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859843079
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building the New World written by Valerie Fraser and published by Verso. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brasilia, Caracas, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro ... cities synonymous with some of the most innovative and progressive architecture of the past century.

Author : Aldo Rossi
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262680431
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of the City written by Aldo Rossi and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1984-09-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aldo Rossi was a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza and one of the most influential theorists of the twentieth century. The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a protest against functionalism and the Modern Movement, in part an attempt to restore the craft of architecture to its position as the only valid object of architectural study, and in part an analysis of the rules and forms of the city's construction, the book has become immensely popular among architects and design students.

Author : Le Corbusier
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking at City Planning written by Le Corbusier and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1971 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jane Rendell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786730480
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Psychoanalysis written by Jane Rendell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thought-provoking book, Jane Rendell explores how architectural space registers in psychoanalysis. She investigates both the inherently spatial vocabulary of psychoanalysis and ideas around the physical 'setting' of the psychoanalytic encounter, with reference to Sigmund Freud, D.W. Winnicott and Andre Green. Building on the innovative writing methods employed in Art and Architecture and Site-Writing, she also addresses the concept of architecture as 'social condenser' a Russian constructivist notion that connects material space and community relations. Tracing this idea's progress from 1920s Moscow to 1950s Britain, Rendell shows how interior and exterior meet in both psychoanalysis and architectural practice. Illuminating a novel field of interdisciplinary enquiry, this book breathes fresh life into notions of social space."

Author : Le Corbusier
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486253325
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The City of To-morrow and Its Planning written by Le Corbusier and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the old structure of cities, suggests a new approach to city planning, and shows specific street and building plans

Author : Colin Porteous
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136408568
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Eco-Architecture: Alternatives from the Modern Movement written by Colin Porteous and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Eco-Architecture builds a historical bridge between architectural science and design. It seeks to address neglected aspects of the Modern Movement as a prelude to supporting a diversity of architectural insight and experimentation aimed at twenty-first century environmental needs and priorities. The attitudes and influences of renowned figures are re-examined in relation to current issues of architectural sustainability. By setting today's green architectural quest within a twentieth century context, and evaluating the main protagonists with regard to a modern eco-sensitive lineage, the book will be of primary interest to architectural students, academics and practitioners. However, it should also intrigue historians, theoreticians and critics, who tend to gloss over such issues, as well as other disciplines engaged with the built environment.