Cities of Dispersal - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0470066377 ISBN 13 : 9780470066379

Editeur : Academy Press, 2008

Synopsis

Questioning the traditional boundaries between cities, suburbs, countryside and wilderness, this issue of AD explores emergent types of public space in low-density environments. It describes this new form of urbanism: decentralised, in a constant process of expansion and contraction, not homogenous or necessarily low-rise, nor guided by one mode of development, typology or pattern.

While functionally and programmatically dispersed, settlements operate as a form of urbanism; the place of collective spaces within them has yet to be defined and articulated. The physical transformation of the built environment on the one hand, and the change in our notion of the public on the other - due to globalisation, privatisation and segregation - call for renewed interpretations of the nature and character of public space. The concept of public space needs to be examined: replaced, re-created or adapted to fit these conditions. What is the place of the public in this form of urbanism, and how can architecture address the notion of common, collective spaces? What is the current sociopolitical role o such spaces? How does the form and use of these spaces reflect the conception of the public as a political (or non-political) body? And can architecture regain an active role in formulating the notion of the collective? These and other issues are addressed through essays, research projects and built work by distinguished writers such as Bruce Robbins, Albert Pope and Alex Wall, and Practitioners including Zvi Hecker, Vito Acconci, MUTOPIA, Manuel de Sola-Morales, Martha Rosler and Manuel Vicente in a search for new collective architectures within the dispersed city.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Rafi Segal?established his own architectural practice in 2000 after working in partnership with Zvi Hecker on the design of the Palmach Museum in Tel Aviv. His theoretical and practical work gained him the Young Artist Award and, later, the Young Architect Prize from the Israeli Association of United Architects. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Architecture at Princeton University.

Els Verbakel is a partner at Derman Verbakel Architects and she is currently pursuing a PhD in Architecture at Princeton University, while also teaching at Columbia University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Academy Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0470066377
• ISBN 13: 9780470066379
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 136
• Éditeur: Segal Rafi, Verbakel Els
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• Personne responsable: non disponible