Category Archive: 2.1.2 all the maps

Venturi – Learning from Las Vegas (1972)

Venturi – Learning from Las Vegas (1972)

PART I A SIGNIFICANCE FOR A&P PARKING LOTS, OR LEARNING FROM LAS VEGAS “Substance for a writer consists not merely of those realities he thinks he discovers; …

 

Camillo Sitte – City Planning According to Artistic Principles (1889)

Camillo Sitte – City Planning According to Artistic Principles (1889)

MODERN SYSTEMS. ARTISTIC LIMITATION OF MODERN CITY PLANNING From City Planning According to Artistic Principles (1889), Translated by George R. Collins and Christiane Crasemann Collins (London: …

 

Cullen – The Concise Townscape (1961)

Cullen – The Concise Townscape (1961)

INTRODUCTION There are advantages to be gained from the gathering together of people to form a town. A single family living in the country can scarcely …

 

Koolhaas – The Generic city

Koolhaas – The Generic city

from: The Generic City: SMLXL by REm Koolhaas l. Introduction 1.1 Is the contemporary city like the contemporary airport- “all the same”? Is it possible to …

 

Lynch – The Image of the City

Lynch – The Image of the City

from: Lynch – The Image of the City Building the lmage Environmental images are the result of a two-way process between the observer and his environment. The …

 

Bosselmann – Urban transformations: cities from a satellite

Bosselmann – Urban transformations: cities from a satellite

Steen Eiler Rassmussen might have been the first to use a comparative method to show the continuous urbanization of cities when he explained the difference …

 

Rossi : The Architecture of the City

Rossi : The Architecture of the City

The Urban Artifact as a Work of Art As soon as we address questions about the individuality and structure of a specific urban artifact, a series …

 

Gropius – From The New Architecture and the Bauhaus

Gropius – From The New Architecture and the Bauhaus

Translated from the German by P. Morton Shand. From The New Architecture and the Bauhaus. (MIT Press.  Cambridge, MA: 1965). The New Architecture and the Bauhaus Can the real nature …

 

Rowe – Collage City and the Reconquest of Time

Rowe – Collage City and the Reconquest of Time

From Collage City, by Colin Rawe, Fred Koetter Now a collage technique, by intention if not by definition, insists upon the centrality of just such a …

 

Barcelona Extension – Ildefons Cerdà – 1859

Barcelona Extension – Ildefons Cerdà – 1859

from: The five bases of the General theory of Urbanization by Ildefons Cerda Why he discarded the term city So what name should he give to “this …