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Urban Forms
This popular and influential work, translated here into English for the first time, argues that modern urbanism has upset the morphology of cities, abolished their streets and isolated their buildings. In tracing the stages of this transformation, this book presents the view that the urban tissue, the intermediate scale between the architecture of buildings and the diagrammatic layouts of town planning, is the essential framework for everyday life. Only by investigating the urban tissue will it be possible to understand the complex relationships between plot and built form, between streets and buildings and between these forms and design practices. The chosen trail of the first French editio...
Analyse urbaine
La connaissance et la compréhension d'une ville ne forcent pas l'évidence, notamment pour les métropoles étendues marquées de strates historiques successives. Une première phase d'observation permet d'identifier les différences : tracés qui s'additionnent, se superposent, s'interrompent et ressurgissent, bâti qui se renouvelle et s'étend au gré d'une lente densification par excroissance, surélévation, découpage et comblement. L'urbanisation accélérée de la période contemporaine marque encore plus radicalement le paysage par le volume des constructions, le mode d'implantation et les techniques utilisées. Pour aller plus loin, il convient d'élaborer une connaissance d'investigation en mêlant l'approche historique, la géographie, le travail cartographique, l'analyse architecturale, l'observation constructive et celle des modes de vie. En affirmant l'importance du dessin comme un moyen de comprendre et de rendre sensible.
The City of Collective Memory
Describes the visual and mental models by which urban environment has been recognized, depicted and planned. This analysis draws from geography, critical theory, architecture, literature and painting to identify these maps of the city - as a work of art, as panorama and as spectacle.
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Urban Forms
This popular and influential work, translated here into English for the first time, argues that modern urbanism has upset the morphology of cities, abolished their streets and isolated their buildings. In tracing the stages of this transformation, this book presents the view that the urban tissue, the intermediate scale between the architecture of buildings and the diagrammatic layouts of town planning, is the essential framework for everyday life. Only by investigating the urban tissue will it be possible to understand the complex relationships between plot and built form, between streets and buildings and between these forms and design practices. The chosen trail of the first French editio...
The Figure of Knowledge
It is a major challenge to write the history of post-WWII architectural theory without boiling it down to a few defining paradigms. An impressive anthologising effort during the 1990s charted architectural theory mostly via the various theoretical frameworks employed, such as critical theory, critical regionalism, deconstructivism, and pragmatism. Yet the intellectual contours of what constitutes architectural theory have been constantly in flux. It is therefore paramount to ask what kind of knowledge has become important in the recent history of architectural theory and how the resulting figure of knowledge sets the conditions for the actual arguments made. The contributions in this volume focus on institutional, geographical, rhetorical, and other conditioning factors. They thus screen the unspoken rules of engagement that postwar architectural theory ascribed to.
Historic Cities
This new volume in the GCI's Readings in Conservation series brings together a selection of seminal writings on the conservation of historic cities. This book, the eighth in the Getty Conservation Institute’s Readings in Conservation series, fills a significant gap in the published literature on urban conservation. This topic is distinct from both heritage conservation and urban planning despite the recent growth of urbanism worldwide, no single volume has presented a comprehensive selection of these important writings until now. This anthology, profusely illustrated throughout, is organized into eight parts, covering such subjects as geographic diversity, reactions to the transformation o...
Building Types and Built Forms
Building Types and Built Forms weaves two books together in alternating chapters: one about the history of building types, the other about their geometry. The first book follows the histories of some common types of building: houses, hospitals, schools, offices and prisons. Examples are drawn from the 19th and early 20th centuries in France, America and Britain, with the central focus on London. They include the 'pavilion hospitals' associated with the name of Florence Nightingale, English Board and Modernist schools of the 1920s and 30s, tall office buildings in Chicago and New York, Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon penitentiary, and 'radial prisons' on the model of Cherry Hill and Pentonville. ...
Tower and Slab
Ch. 1. Social reform, state control, and the origins of mass housing -- ch. 2. Mass housing in Chicago -- ch. 3. The concrete cordon around Paris -- ch. 4. Slabs versus tenements in East and West Berlin -- ch. 5. Bras?lia, the slab block capital -- ch. 6. Mumbai : mass housing for the upper crust -- ch. 7. Prefab Moscow -- ch. 8. High-rise Shanghai -- ch. 9. Global architecture, locally conditioned.
