Projecting Urbanity Architecture For And Against The City

Author : David Leatherbarrow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911339502
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Projecting Urbanity: Architecture for and Against the City written by David Leatherbarrow and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existing histories of modern architecturetypically give their highest praise to private houses and their most severecondemnation to architect-authored urban plans, often neglecting the builtworks that are no smaller than a single building and possibly as large as anurban block, the middle or institutional scale, where culturally significanturban transformation actually takes place. Urban architecture is a timely topic as todaycities worldwide are suffering accelerated urbanisation, which is oftendehumanising and destructive, especially to the unbuilt environment, airs,waters and soils. The middle or institutional scale is shown to activate andactualise latent potentials for cultural experience and environmentalintelligence, allowing the city to surprise itself and delight in itsdiscoveries. In ProjectingUrbanity, David Leatherbarrow, via author-architect texts by his formerdoctorate students, lays out the basis for a revision of modern architecture'scontribution to cities and their culture. Presenting a series of textsfeaturing buildings or their parts of various scales - from the constructiondetail, to the room or garden, to ensembles within a neighborhood - thecontributors introduce concepts for contemporary and future urbanarchitecture, together with richly indicative examples from the past severaldecades. While architecture cannot "solve" today'surban problems, it certainly has a role to play in their productivetransformation, articulating opportunities for life and culture that are morehumane, less wasteful, and more beautiful.

Author : Mario Gandelsonas
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 1568981511
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book X-Urbanism written by Mario Gandelsonas and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines configurations of urban space, analyzing them in ways that blur the traditional opposition between figure and ground.

Author : Nan Ellin
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568981352
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Urbanism written by Nan Ellin and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to the scope of contemporary urban design theory in Europe and the USA.

Author : Eric Mumford
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300230397
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designing the Modern City written by Eric Mumford and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 360 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 : Rodolphe El-Khoury
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317342259
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaping the City written by Rodolphe El-Khoury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking on the key issues in urban design, Shaping the City examines the critical ideas that have driven these themes and debates through a study of particular cities at important periods in their development. As well as retaining crucial discussions about cities such as Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Brasilia at particular moments in their history that exemplified the problems and themes at hand like the mega-city, the post-colonial city and New Urbanism, in this new edition the editors have introduced new case studies critical to any study of contemporary urbanism – China, Dubai, Tijuana and the wider issues of informal cities in the Global South. The book serves as both a textbook for classes in urban design, planning and theory and is also attractive to the increasing interest in urbanism by scholars in other fields. Shaping the City provides an essential overview of the range and variety of urbanisms and urban issues that are critical to an understanding of contemporary urbanism.

Author : Brent D. Ryan
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262341948
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Largest Art written by Brent D. Ryan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why urban design is larger than architecture: the foundational qualities of urban design, examples and practitioners Urban design in practice is incremental, but architects imagine it as scaled-up architecture—large, ready-to-build pop-up cities. This paradox of urban design is rarely addressed; indeed, urban design as a discipline lacks a theoretical foundation. In The Largest Art, Brent Ryan argues that urban design encompasses more than architecture, and he provides a foundational theory of urban design beyond the architectural scale. In a “declaration of independence” for urban design, Ryan describes urban design as the largest of the building arts, with qualities of its own. Ryan distinguishes urban design from its sister arts by its pluralism: plural scale, ranging from an alleyway to a region; plural time, because it is deeply enmeshed in both history and the present; plural property, with many owners; plural agents, with many makers; and plural form, with a distributed quality that allows it to coexist with diverse elements of the city. Ryan looks at three well-known urban design projects through the lens of pluralism: a Brancusi sculptural ensemble in Romania, a Bronx housing project, and a formally and spatially diverse grouping of projects in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He revisits the thought of three plural urbanists working between 1960 and 1980: David Crane, Edmund Bacon, and Kevin Lynch. And he tells three design stories for the future, imaginary scenarios of plural urbanism in locations around the world. Ryan concludes his manifesto with three signal considerations urban designers must acknowledge: eternal change, inevitable incompletion, and flexible fidelity. Cities are ceaselessly active, perpetually changing. It is the urban designer's task to make art with aesthetic qualities that can survive perpetual change.

Author : Stephen M. Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781032381336
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sverre Fehn and the City written by Stephen M. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520209303
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Design Downtown written by Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-10-19 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book's case studies of individual West Coast downtown projects capture the essence of late 20th-century urbanism with its multitude of social dilemmas and contradictions. The authors explore both the poetics of design and the politics and economics of development decisions. 98 photos. 26 line illustrations. 23 maps.

Author : Christopher C. M. Lee
Publisher : Academy Press
ISBN 13 : 9780470747209
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Typological Urbanism written by Christopher C. M. Lee and published by Academy Press. This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can architecture today be simultaneously relevant to its urban context and at the very forefront of design? For a decade or so, iconic architecture has been fuelled by the market economy and consumers' insatiable appetite for the novel and the different. The relentless speed and scale of urbanisation, with its ruptured, decentralised and fast-changing context, though, demands a rethink of the role of the designer and the function of architecture. This title of 2 confronts and questions the profession's and academia's current inability to confidently and comprehensively describe, conceptualise, theorise and ultimately project new ideas for architecture in relation to the city. In so doing, it provides a potent alternative for projective cities: Typological Urbanism. This pursues and develops the strategies of typological reasoning in order to re-engage architecture with the city in both a critical and speculative manner. Architecture and urbanism are no longer seen as separate domains, or subservient to each other, but as synthesising disciplines and processes that allow an integrating and controlling effect on both the city and its built environment.

Author : Thomas Deckker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135802491
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern City Revisited written by Thomas Deckker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005-08-12 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The supposed rationality of the urban planning of the Modern Movement encompassed a variety of attitudes towards history, technology and culture, from the vision of Berlin as an American metropolis, through the dispute between the urbanists and disurbanists in the Soviet Union to the technocratic and austere vision of Le Corbusier. After the Second World War, architects attempted to reconcile these utopian visions to the practical problems of constructing - or reconstructing - urban environments, from Piero Bottoni at the Quartiere Trienale 8 in Milan in 1951 to Lucio Costa at Bras'lia in 1957. In the 1970s, the collapse of Modernism brought about universial condemnation of Modern urbanism; urban planning,and rationality itself, were thrown into doubt. However, such a wholesale condemnation hides the complex realities underlying these Modern cities. The contributors define some of the theoretical foundations of Modern urban planning, and reassess the successes and the failures of the built results. The book ends with contrasting views of the inheritance of Modern urbanism in the United States and the Netherlands.