Site Matters: Design Concepts, Histories and Strategies

ISBN-13: 9780415949750 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 370 str.

Carol Burns; Andrea Kahn; Burns J. Burns

Opis

One of the trends in twentieth century architecture and planning has been to denigrate and ignore the site, or larger context (both physical and social), surrounding a building or set of buildings. Focussing on Le Corbusier's designs, Site Matters presents that first considered theory and vocabulary for the inevitable reaction against Modernism in planning, beginning in the 1960s and swelling through the 1980s as architects and planners alike developed a new appreciation of site, reincorporating the wider context into their plans. Theoretical essays and empirically grounded pieces combine to provide the language and theory of this re-emergence of site, looking at Le Corbusier's designs, contemporary suburbs, and the planning agendas involved at the World Trade Center site. Groundbreaking and innovative, Site Matters provides valuable theory and vocabulary for planners and architects.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments, Why Site Matters, 1 Around the Corner: A Photo Essay, 2 Claiming the Site: Evolving Social–Legal Conceptions of Ownership and Property, 3 From Place to Site: Negotiating Narrative Complexity, 4 Groundwork, 5 Site Citations: The Grounds of Modern Landscape Architecture, 6 Shifting Sites, 7 Contested Contexts, 8 The Suppressed Site: Revealing the Influence of Site on Two Purist Works, 9 Neighborhoods Apart: Site/Non-Sight and Suburban Apartments, 10 Study Areas, Sites, and the Geographic Approach to Public Action, 11 Defining Urban Sites, 12 High-Performance Sites, Engaging the Field, Biographical Information, Figure Credits, Index

O autorze

Burns, Carol; Kahn, Andrea