Site Matters
eBook - ePub

Site Matters

Design Concepts, Histories and Strategies

  1. 370 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Site Matters

Design Concepts, Histories and Strategies

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Site Matters by Carol Burns,Andrea Kahn in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Architecture & Architecture General. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2005
Print ISBN
9780415949750
eBook ISBN
9781135931155
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
Architecture General

Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  5. WHY SITE MATTERS
  6. 1. AROUND THE CORNER: A PHOTO ESSAY
  7. 2. CLAIMING THE SITE: EVOLVING SOCIAL–LEGAL CONCEPTIONS OF OWNERSHIP AND PROPERTY
  8. 3. FROM PLACE TO SITE: NEGOTIATING NARRATIVE COMPLEXITY
  9. 4. GROUNDWORK
  10. 5. SITE CITATIONS: THE GROUNDS OF MODERN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
  11. 6. SHIFTING SITES
  12. 7. CONTESTED CONTEXTS
  13. 8. THE SUPPRESSED SITE: REVEALING THE INFLUENCE OF SITE ON TWO PURIST WORKS
  14. 9. NEIGHBORHOODS APART: SITE/NON-SIGHT AND SUBURBAN APARTMENTS
  15. 10. STUDY AREAS, SITES, AND THE GEOGRAPHIC APPROACH TO PUBLIC ACTION
  16. 11. DEFINING URBAN SITES
  17. 12. HIGH-PERFORMANCE SITES
  18. ENGAGING THE FIELD
  19. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
  20. FIGURE CREDITS