Site and Composition: Design Strategies in Architecture and Urbanism - Couverture souple

Aldallal, Enis; AlWaer, Husam; Bandyopadhyay, Soumyen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0415498260 ISBN 13 : 9780415498265

Editeur : Routledge, 2016

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Site and Composition examines design strategies and tactics in site practice and site making. Some design has suffered due to an oversimplification of the definition of site, however many designers try to prospect deeper engagement with the physical qualities of place and the craft of the site. This book approaches the study of the wider significance of site as a crucial issue in the design process. It examines how designers perceive a site physically, in order to address its integration culturally and how this might be explored in both pedagogy and practice.

Divided into five main parts, the book:

• focuses on site and context interrelations, redefining these two entities from a theoretical standpoint and discussing their diverse interrelationships as design tactics
• explains projection and composition and how site lines can be derived from the physical qualities of a specific place and topographical premises, both in rural and urban settings
• discusses the nature of wholeness and fragmentation as a modern phenomena, to achieve a wider understanding of the notions of urban infill and intervention
• analyses the reciprocal relationships between the exterior and interior spaces, approaching the site not only from outside-in but also its profound interrelation to the inside-out
• studies materiality and how the use of site materials impacts the level of autonomy or dependence and continuity or disjunction of a building

Site and Composition provides an understanding of site as an entity that endeavours to achieve interrelationship rather than isolation, inclusion rather than exclusion, completion rather than incompletion. Written in a clear and accessible manner, it makes vital reading for students of architecture.

Biographie de l'auteur

Enis Aldallal has been practising architecture in the United States since 2011 and is pursuing licensure in the state of Illinois. Before coming to the USA, he practised architecture for six years in renowned architectural firms in the Middle East. He holds an MArch from Illinois Institute of Technology (2011) and an MPhil from the University of Liverpool, UK (2009). His interest in place-specific approaches to architecture supports his research on site-related challenges and how they engage with his architecural designs.

Husam AlWaer is an urbanist with a background in architecture, urban design and sustainability. He is Senior Lecturer in sustainable urban design and evaluation in the School of Social Sciences, University of Dundee, having previously researched and taught at Reading and Liverpool universities. Husam’s work has had considerable impact in academia, practice and in the field of community out-reach. With Barbara Illsley he is currently editing Place-making: Rethinking the Master-planning Process, with contributions from internationally reputed scholars and experts in the field (ICE Publisher, expected 2016).

Soumyen Bandyopadhyay holds the Sir James Stirling Chair in Architecture at the University of Liverpool. Director of the research centre, ArCHIAM (Architecture and Cultural Heritage of India, Arabia and the Maghreb), he has published widely on aspects of Indian modernity and vernacular architecture of Arabia. His recent publications include The Territories of Identity (Routledge 2013, co-edited with Guillermo Garma-Montiel) and Manah: Omani Oasis, Arabian Legacy (Liverpool University Press 2011).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0415498260
• ISBN 13: 9780415498265
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 182