Town spaces : contemporary interpretations in traditional urbanism : Krier, Kohl Architects / Rob Krier ; introduction by Michael Graves ; essays by Hans Ibelings, Philipp Meuser, Harald Bodenschatz ; [translation, Fiona Greenwood Fincannon].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krier, Rob.

Contributor:

Ibelings, Hans.

Meuser, Philipp, 1969-

Bodenschatz, Harald.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rob Krier-Christoph Kohl Architects.

City planning--History--20th century.

City planning.

History.

Space (Architecture)--History--20th century.

Space (Architecture).

Physical Description:

283 pages : illustrations (some color), plans (partly color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Basel ; Boston, MA : Birkhauser-Publishers for Architecture, 2003.

Summary:

In four chapters on new towns, city districts, urban centres and the restructuring of towns and cities, with commentaries by notable architectural historians and critics, this book develops detailed typologies for urban composition, including designs and large recent realizations that are characterized by a sense of public spirit, identification and order.

Contents:

Introduction: The Figural City / Michael Graves 6

Composition of Urban Spaces / Rob Krier 8

I New Towns 19

II New City Districts 59

III Reshaping Urban Centres 101

IV Restructuring Towns and Cities 163

Anti-Modernist Megastructures: The Architecture and Urbanism of Krier and Kohl in the Dutch Context / Hans Ibelings 236

Experiments with Convention: European Urban Planning from Camillo Sitte to New Urbanism / Philipp Meuser 248

New Urbanism and the European Perspective: Presumption, Rivalry or Challenge? / Harald Bodenschatz 266.

ISBN:

3764369426

OCLC:

51810656