The Charged Void : Urbanism / Alison Smithson, Peter Smithson
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TextPublication details: New York : The Monacelli Press, 2004. Description: 351 pages : illustrations ; 28 cmISBN: 1580931308Subject(s): Architecture, modern -- case studies -- 20th century | Smithson, Alison Margeret -- themes, motive | Smithson,Peter,1923 -- themes, motive | City planning -- case studies -- 20th centuryOther classification: NA997 SMI 2004 Summary: 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.
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Universiti Teknologi Brunei Library - at level 2 | NA997 SMI 2004 c.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Reg. No. 018520(H) c.1 UTB | 850780 |
Includes index (page 348)
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.
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