The City as Architecture

Sophie Wolfrum; Alban Janson

Published by Birkhäuser 2019

The City as Architecture

Sophie Wolfrum and Alban Janson

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035618051

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About this book

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.

Relevant propositions for global urbanistic discourse

Short, succinct texts by well-known authors

Author / Editor information

Sophie Wolfrum, urbanist, Professor at the TU Munich
Alban Janson, architect, architecture theorist, and artist, Munich

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
1. Urban Design is Architecture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
2. What Constitutes the ‘Architectural’? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Competence of Architecture
3. A Unique Kind of Reality – On Situations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
4. See and Be Seen – On Scenes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
5. Architecture as Event – On Performativity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
6. Distinctness and Scope – On Capacity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
7. The Beauty of the Big City – On Atmosphere Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
8. Spaces with Qualities – On Places Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
9. Fox and Hedgehog – On Concepts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Architectural Repertoire
10. The Intervolumetric City – On Space and Object Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
11. The Outside is the Inside of Outside – On Inside and Outside Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
12. Still Here While Being There – On Boundaries and Thresholds Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
13. Porosity – On Interpenetration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
14. Walking in the City – On Motion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
15. No Ideas but in Things – On Materiality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
16. City as Text – On Signs and Expressions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
17. A Well-Considered Spatial Framework – On Structure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Urban Design
18. A Method for the Concrete Case – On Design Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
Picture Credits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Audience: Stadtplaner, Architekten, Studenten
Pages
- Main content: 144
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 18
- Coloured Images: 18
Keywords: Architektur; Stadt; Stadtplanung; Stadtraum; Städtebau; Urban Design; Urbanistik

eBook

Published: April 1, 2019
ISBN: 9783035618051

Hardcover

Published: April 1, 2019
ISBN: 9783035617986