The continuous city : fourteen essays on architecture and urbanization
Lars Lerup observes and analyses his urban environment and its properties before adding his findings to his own theory of the modern city. The fourteen essays, written independently as self-contained pieces yet forming a coherent entity, offer a survey of his thinking on identity and monumentality a...
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| Formato: | Livre papier |
| Lenguaje: | Anglais |
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Zurich : Houston (Tex.) :
Park Books ; Architecture at Rice
2017.
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| Variante du titre: | 14 essays on architecture and urbanization |
| Sumario: | Lars Lerup observes and analyses his urban environment and its properties before adding his findings to his own theory of the modern city. The fourteen essays, written independently as self-contained pieces yet forming a coherent entity, offer a survey of his thinking on identity and monumentality are the relationship between nature and culture. His interest and reflections focus, among other things, on Roberto Burle Marx, a founder of modern landscape design; the “dancing floors” of Rem Koolhaas’s Seattle Central Library; Herzog & de Meuron’s 1111 Lincoln Road project in Miami Beach; or the character of urban icons like Coop Himmelb(l)au’s Dalian International Conference Center. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 vol. (219 p.) : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliografía: | Notes bibliogr. |
| ISBN: | 9783038600664 (rel.) |