TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smithson,Alison
AU  - 
TI  - The Charged Void: Urbanism 
SN  - 1580931308
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York
PB  -  The Monacelli Press
KW  - Architecture, modern
KW  - case studies
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Smithson, Alison Margeret
KW  - themes, motive
KW  - Smithson,Peter,1923
KW  - City planning
N1  - Includes index (page 348)
N2  - The Charged Void: Urbanism is the companion volume to The Charged Void: Architecture; the two together comprise the complete works of Alison and Peter Smithson. For the designers, architecture and urbanism were inseparable: buildings encapsulate urban ideas; urban systems are the means by which buildings function effectively. This second book collects both urban and architectural designs that have specific implications for city form into fourteen thematic chapters: the Team X Doorn Manifesto with its worked examples (Close Houses, Fold Houses, Terraced Crescent Houses); large-scale designs such as the Berlin Hauptstadt, Hamburg Steilshoop, and the Kuwait Urban Form Study; and built manifestations of urban ideas, notably the Economist Building of 1959-64. More than a collection of work, The Charged Void: Urbanism represents a record of a focused thought process concerned with the qualities of urban life―a thoughtful and witty collection of observations, decipherings, and recommendations for understanding and improving the complex nature of the city
ER  -