The city as architecture

Architecture creates complex spatial situations that are the subject of urban design. Design uses a repertoire of specific architectural means in a creative way, resulting in cities that can be lived in and perceived in their three-dimensional experience. The current book, an extended new edition of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wolfrum, Sophie
Other Authors: Janson, Alban, 1948-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basel Birkhäuser, [2019]
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Urban Design is Architecture
  • 2. What Constitutes the 'Architectural'?
  • Competence of Architecture
  • 3. A Unique Kind of Reality - On Situations
  • 4. See and Be Seen - On Scenes
  • 5. Architecture as Event - On Performativity
  • 6. Distinctness and Scope - On Capacity
  • 7. The Beauty of the Big City - On Atmosphere
  • 8. Spaces with Qualities - On Places
  • 9. Fox and Hedgehog - On Concepts
  • Architectural Repertoire
  • 10. The Intervolumetric City - On Space and Object
  • 11. The Outside is the Inside of Outside - On Inside and Outside
  • 12. Still Here While Being There - On Boundaries and Thresholds
  • 13. Porosity - On Interpenetration
  • 14. Walking in the City - On Motion
  • 15. No Ideas but in Things - On Materiality
  • 16. City as Text - On Signs and Expressions
  • 17. A Well-Considered Spatial Framework - On Structure
  • Urban Design
  • 18. A Method for the Concrete Case - On Design
  • Bibliography
  • Picture Credits