The City as Architecture

Description

• Relevant propositions for global urbanistic discourse
• Short, succinct texts by well-known authors

Architecture creates complex spatial situations that are the subject of urban design. Design uses a repertoire of specific architectural means in a creative way, resulting in cities that can be lived in and perceived in their three-dimensional experience.
The current book, an extended new edition of Architecture of the City (2016), describes the repertoire with which architecture and design regain an entry to urbanistics. It pleads for an “architectonic turn” in urbanistics – a demand to finally comprehend the city architecturally: the issue is not just about buildings in the city, but about architecture of the city as a whole, as is clearly expressed in the new title of City as Architecture.

CONTENTS

• 1. Urban Design is Architecture
• 2. What Constitutes the ‘Architectural’?
• 3. A Unique Kind of Reality – On Situations
• 4. See and Be Seen – On Scenes
• 5. Architecture as Event – On Performativity
• 6. Distinctness and Scope – On Capacity
• 7. The Beauty of the Big City – On Atmosphere
• 8. Spaces with Qualities – On Places
• 9. Fox and Hedgehog – On Concepts
• 10. The Intervolumetric City – On Space and Object
• 11. The Outside is the Inside of Outside – On Inside and Outside
• 12. Still Here While Being There – On Boundaries and Thresholds
• 13. Porosity – On Interpenetration
• 14. Walking in the City – On Motion
• 15. No Ideas but in Things – On Materiality
• 16. City as Text – On Signs and Expressions
• 17. A Well-Considered Spatial Framework – On Structure
• 18. A Method for the Concrete Case – On Design
• Bibliography, Picture Credits

144 pages, 18 Illustrations color /  24 x 17 cm / English