Urbanisms : working with doubt / Steven Holl.

Main entry:

Holl, Steven.

Title & Author:

Urbanisms : working with doubt / Steven Holl.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

287 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm

Notes:
"This book is conceived as an accompaniment to the book House: Black Swan Theory (Princeton Architectural Press, 2007)"--Foreword.
Foreword -- Urbanisms : working with doubt -- Geo-spatial -- Experiential phenomena -- Spatiality of night -- Urban porosity -- Sectional cities -- Enmeshed experience : partial views -- Psychological space -- Flux and the ephemeral -- Banalization versus qualitative power -- Negative capability -- Fusion : landscape/urbranism/architecture -- Coda : dilated time -- The megaform and the helix / by Kenneth Frampton -- Project credits -- Image credits -- Acknowledgments.

Summary:

"Contemporary urban development is increasingly characterized by a reliance on diagrams, maps, and graphs to convey the rational, statistical point of view of the professional urban planner. In his new book, Urbanisms, architect Steven Holl suggests that just as modern medicine has recognized the power of the irrational psyche, urban planners need to realize that the experiential power of cities cannot be completely rationalized and must be studied subjectively. With a selection of urban and architectural projects from his thirty-year practice, Holl stretches urban planning into the domain of uncertainty, from prose into poetry. Urbanisms examines how perception and the senses are intertwined with the material, space, and light of urban form."--Jacket.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9781568986791 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
1568986793 (hbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Holl, Steven 1947-
Holl, Steven.
City planning Psychological aspects.
Architekturkritik
Stadtplanung
Stadsplanering psykologiska aspekter.
City planning History 20th century.
City planning History 21st century.

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Beispielsammlung.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 264940
Call No.: BIB 196370
Status: Available

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