Lucius Burckhardt Writings. Rethinking Man-made Environments : Politics, Landscape & Design

ISBN-13: 9783990434956 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 288 str.

Opis

Burckhardt pioneered the interdisciplinary analysis of man-made environments, a field forged in the ruins of post-war Europe. This is the first English translation of his core essays on the interplay between humans and their designed, often urban, landscapes.

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Preface:

The Work of Lucius Burckhardt Urban Planning and Democracy (1957)

Ulm Anno 5. The Curriculum of the Ulm School of Design (1960)

Building-A Process with No Obligations to Heritage Preservation (1967)

On the Value and Meaning of Urban Utopias (1968)

From Design Academicism to the Treatment of Virulent Problems (1973)

Who Plans the Planning? (1974)

Family and Home-Two Adaptable Systems (1975)

Urban Design and Its Significance for Residents (1975)

Gardening-An Art and A Necessity (1977)

Why Is Landscape Beautiful? (1979)

On the Design of Everyday Life (1979)

Design Is Invisible (1980)

Dirt (1980)

What Is Livability? On Quantifiable and Invisible Needs (1981)

The Night Is Man-made (1982)

Architecture-An Art or A Science? (1983)

A Critique of the Art of Gardening (1983)

Fake: The Real Thing (1987)

Aesthetics and Ecology (1990)

A Walk in Second Nature (1992)

The Sermon (1994)

Strollological Observations on Perception of the Environment and the Tasks Facing Our Generation (1996)

Wasteland As Context. Is There Any Such Thing As The Postmodern Landscape? (1998)

On Movement and Vantage Points-the Strollologist's Experience (1999)

Lucius Burckhardt Biography

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Lucius Burckhardt, 1925-2003, was Professor for Urbanism at the Gesamthochschule in Kassel. He ist the inventor of strollology the science of strolling.