Emancipating Space: Geography, Architecture and Urban Design - Rilegato

King, Ross

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1572300450 ISBN 13: 9781572300453

Casa editrice: Guilford Press, 1996

Riassunto

A sweeping historical analysis of the complex relationship between social criticism and built form, Emancipating Space examines the interconnections of architecture and social climate. Including 45 black-and-white illustrations of buildings and public spaces, the book argues that those concerned with urban design and social change should make their contribution to bringing about a better world by designing spaces based in utopian or emancipatory theories. Author Ross King presents theories of social improvement and architecture since the enlightenment with an eye toward developing new urban design ideas for the postmodern era.

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L'autore:

Ross King is Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Building, and Planning at the University of Melbourne, and was educated as an architect and urban planner at the University of Sydney. He was also a graduate student under Louis Kahn at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also sat at the feet of such modernist luminaries as Le Corbusier, Lewis Mumford, and Arnold Toynbee. He has practiced as an architect, planner, and policy analyst, taught at the Universities of Sydney and Melbourne, and researched (among other things) the complexities of urban housing markets, the cultural contexts and economic effects of urban and landscape design, and theories of design.

Contenuti:

Introduction - the design of the city, the progress of modernity and the crisis of postmodernity; space and power - the Enlightenment; space and the commodity - the 19th century and the rise of modernity; the space of revolution - 1990 and the maelstrom; the 1920s as crucible - translation, Vkhutemas and the Bauhaus; the universal space of the 20th century - voyages against the ebb; the space of signs - 1968, modernity and postmodernity; "postmodern"; space and deconstruction - map as myth; conclusion - new geography; the philosophical discourse of modernity versus postmodernity; conclusion - new architecture, new urban design.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Guilford Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1572300450
• ISBN 13: 9781572300453
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 300