How were the concepts of the observer and user in architecture and urban planning transformed throughout the 20th and 21st centuries? Marianna Charitonidou explores how the mutations of the means of representation in architecture and urban planning relate to the significance of city's inhabitants. She investigates Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's fascination with perspective, Team Ten's interest in the humanisation of architecture and urbanism, Constantinos Doxiadis and Adriano Olivetti's role in reshaping the relationship between politics and urban planning during the postwar years, Giancarlo De Carlo's architecture of participation, Aldo Rossi's design methods, Denise Scott Brown's active socioplactics and Bernard Tschumi's conception praxis.
Price: $55.00
Pages: 350
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
28 February 2023
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837664881
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, DESIGN / History & Criticism, HISTORY / Social History
»The book offers a comprehensive exploration of architectural representations dynamic evolution and their relevance in the contemporary digital age.«
Marianna Charitonidou (Dr.-Ing.) is architect engineer and urbanist, historian & theorist of architecture and urbanism, expert in sustainable environmental design and curator. She is principal investigator at Athens School of Fine Arts and founder and principal of Think Through Design Architectural, Urban and Landscape Design Studio. As lecturer at ETH Zurich, she curated the exhibition »The View from the Car: Autopia as a New Perceptual Regime«.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgements 11
Introduction 13
Chapter 1: Le Corbusier's act of drawing 31
Chapter 2: Le Corbusier's space beyond words 59
Chapter 3: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's interior perspective views 95
Chapter 4: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Baukunst as Zeitwille 123
Chapter 5: The Team Ten and the humanization of architecture 155
Chapter 6: Aldo Rossi's visual strategies and the prioritization of the observer 181
Chapter 7: Constantinos Doxiadis and Adriano Olivetti's role in reshaping the relationship between politics and urban planning 211
Chapter 8: Giancarlo De Carlo's participatory design methods 231
Chapter 9: Denise Scott Brown and the socio-anthropological meaning as new objectivity 265
Chapter 10: Bernard Tschumi's politics of space 307
