The City as Architecture / Sophie Wolfrum, Alban Janson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolfrum, Sophie, Author.

Janson, Alban, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space (Architecture).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (144 pages)

Place of Publication:

Basel : Birkhäuser, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Architecture creates complex spatial situations that are the subject of urban design. Design uses a repertoire of specific architectural means in a creative way, resulting in cities that can be lived in and perceived in their three-dimensional experience. The current book, an extended new edition of Architecture of the City (2016), describes the repertoire with which architecture and design regain an entry to urbanistics. It pleads for an "architectonic turn" in urbanistics - a demand to finally comprehend the city architecturally: the issue is not just about buildings in the city, but about architecture of the city as a whole, as is clearly expressed in the new title of City as Architecture.

Architektur ist die Kunst, Räume zu artikulieren. Auch für den Maßstab der Stadt, von der Türschwelle bis zur Region, geht es um die Architektur urbaner Räume. Diese sind Gegenstand des architektonischen Entwurfs, der ein Repertoire spezifischer Mittel schöpferisch einsetzt, so dass wir Städte als räumlich gestaltet erleben. Dieses architektonische Repertoire wird hier beschrieben. Entwurf und urban design finden wieder Eingang in die Urbanistik.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1. Urban Design is Architecture

2. What Constitutes the 'Architectural'?

3. A Unique Kind of Reality - On Situations

4. See and Be Seen - On Scenes

5. Architecture as Event - On Performativity

6. Distinctness and Scope - On Capacity

7. The Beauty of the Big City - On Atmosphere

8. Spaces with Qualities - On Places

9. Fox and Hedgehog - On Concepts

10. The Intervolumetric City - On Space and Object

11. The Outside is the Inside of Outside - On Inside and Outside

12. Still Here While Being There - On Boundaries and Thresholds

13. Porosity - On Interpenetration

14. Walking in the City - On Motion

15. No Ideas but in Things - On Materiality

16. City as Text - On Signs and Expressions

17. A Well-Considered Spatial Framework - On Structure

18. A Method for the Concrete Case - On Design

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Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

3-0356-1800-3

3-0356-1805-4

OCLC:

1100457006