Urban transformations and the architecture of additions / Rodrigo Pérez de Arce ; introduction by Julian Marsh.

Main entry:

Pérez de Arce, Rodrigo.

Title & Author:

Urban transformations and the architecture of additions / Rodrigo Pérez de Arce ; introduction by Julian Marsh.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

Description:

xxv, 90 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Series:

Studies in international planning history

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Urban Transformations and the Architecture of Additions -- Runcorn Transformed-A Long Term Check -- Urban Transformations.
Texts in English. One essay ("Runcorn transformed") in Italian and English.

Summary:

"Rodrigo Perez de Arce's essay Urban Transformations and Architectural Additions was published during the formative stages of Post Modernism, at the point where theory was becoming seriously established. Jencks' first essays formalising the term Post Modernism in architecture and the revised Learning from Las Vegas were published the previous year. In planning terms, modernism had become associated with comprehensive redevelopment and forms of urban organisation that ignored context, history and any sense of tradition. De Arce considered the essential nature of buildings and the richness of historic urban form and explored how robust that essence was over time. He looked at the value of essential remnants and rich complexities in maintaining a sense of continuity and relevance. Having explored the adaptation process in history, de Arce went on to see how such a process might be simulated in contemporary cities with modern buildings, using additions and layers to change them from objects in infinite windswept space to being part of a rich urban fabric which described urban place. To do this he used concrete examples; housing schemes by James Stirling, new government centres in Chandigrah and Dacca and more prosaic 60's housing blocks"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780415834759 (hardback)
0415834759 (hardback)
9781315753478 (ebook)
1315753472 (ebook)
1317621212
9781317621218
9781317621225 (PDF ebook)
9781317621201 (Mobipocket ebook)

Subject:

City planning.
Architecture and history.
Buildings Additions.
Architecture et histoire.
Constructions Agrandissements.
ARCHITECTURE Urban & Land Use Planning.
POLITICAL SCIENCE Public Policy City Planning & Urban Development.

Added entries:

Pérez de Arce, Rodrigo. Essays. Selections.
Studies in international planning history.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 296887
Call No.: BIB 243205
Status: Available

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