Rob Krier

Town Spaces

Contemporary Interpretations in Traditional Urbanism. Krier-Kohl-Architects. Introduction by Michael Graves. Essays by Hans Ibelings, Philipp Meuser and Harald Bodenschatz

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Neotraditional town planning responds to the crisis of the contemporary city with clear and well-organized spaces whose atmosphere is marked by public spirit, identification, and order. In four parts, this book articulates guidelines for the planning of new cities, the development of new urban neighborhoods, the restructuring of city centers, and the expansion of cities and urban neighborhoods.

Drawing on firsthand experience and examples from the work of the firm Krier Kohl, it offers a detailed account of the path that leads from morphological conception through the various phases of the town-planning design process all the way to execution. A broad spectrum of architectural realizations by practitioners as varied as Michael Graves, Cesar Pelli, and Kohn Pedersen Fox demonstrates that neotraditional town planning can work together productively with architectural conceptions that are stylistically very different. "The accompanying essays round off a well-designed and well-printed volume." - DISP, ETH Zurich

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Auf die Krise der heutigen Stadt antwortet der neotraditionelle Städtebau mit dem Entwurf überschaubarer Orte. In den vier Teilen des Buches werden Leitlinien für die städtebauliche Komposition von neu gegründeten Städten, den Neubau von Stadtquartieren, die Umstrukturierung von Stadtzentren sowie Erweiterungen von Städten und Stadtvierteln dargestellt.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Birkhäuser Berlin
• 2nd, rev. ed.
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm
• Gewicht: 1412g
• ISBN-13: 9783764375584
• ISBN-10: 3764375582
• Artikelnr.: 20865152

Autorenporträt

Hans Ibelings is an art historian, an architecture critic, and the author of numerous works, including Supermodernism: Architecture in the Age of Globalization (1998, 2003). He is also the editor of the international architecture magazine A10 new European architecture.
Philipp Meuser is a Dipl-Ing. Architekt BDA and the author of various works, including Moderne Architektur in Kasachstan, Kirgistan und Usbekistan. He runs an architecture firm in Berlin with Natascha Meuser.
Harald Bodenschatz is professor of the sociology of planning and architecture at the Technische Universität in Berlin and the author of various works, including Stadterneuerung im Umbruch - Barcelona, Bologna, Frankfurt am Main, Glasgow, Hamburg, Köln, Kopenhagen, Leipzig, München, Nürnberg, Paris, Rostock, Rotterdam, Wien und Berlin (1994) and Renaissance der Mitte. Zentrumsumbau in London und Berlin (2005).
Rob Krier and Christoph Kohl pursue an approach to town planning oriented around traditional architecture.