Town Spaces : Contemporary Interpretations in Traditional Urbanism

ISBN-13: 9783764375584 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 288 str.

Rob Krier; Michael Graves; Hans Ibelings

Opis

Softcover edition of the popular book on tradition-oriented town planning. Drawing on firsthand experience and examples from the work of the firm Krier Kohl, the book offers a detailed account of the path that leads from morphological conception through the various phases of the town-planning design process all the way to execution.

O autorze

Hans Ibelings is an art historian, an architecture critic, and the author of numerous works, including Supermodernism: Architecture in the Age of Globalization (1998, 2003). He is also the editor of the international architecture magazine A10 new European architecture. Philipp Meuser is a Dipl-Ing. Architekt BDA and the author of various works, including Moderne Architektur in Kasachstan, Kirgistan und Usbekistan. He runs an architecture firm in Berlin with Natascha Meuser. Harald Bodenschatz is professor of the sociology of planning and architecture at the Technische Universität in Berlin and the author of various works, including Stadterneuerung im Umbruch - Barcelona, Bologna, Frankfurt am Main, Glasgow, Hamburg, Köln, Kopenhagen, Leipzig, München, Nürnberg, Paris, Rostock, Rotterdam, Wien und Berlin (1994) and Renaissance der Mitte. Zentrumsumbau in London und Berlin (2005). Rob Krier and Christoph Kohl pursue an approach to town planning oriented around traditional architecture.