Site Matters: Design Concepts, Histories and Strategies

ISBN-13: 9780415949767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 370 str.

Carol Burns; Burns J. Burns; Carol Burns

Opis

This volume, through theoretical essays and empirically grounded pieces on Le Corbusier's designs, contemporary suburbs, and the planning agendas of the World Trade Center site, provides theory on the appreciation of site and context in architecture.

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