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Dennis Michael - Temples And Towns The Form Elements And Principles Of Planned Towns - Paperback
Dennis Michael - Temples And Towns The Form Elements And Principles Of Planned Towns - Paperback
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Description: This book traces the historic evolution of urban form principles and design; it serves as a compendium or reference of city design; and is a polemic about the necessity for the recovery of the city and a contemporary urban architecture. It begins with the planned cities of Greece and the Roman Empire from about 500 BC through the late - medieval Bastides the Ideal Renaissance cities and Baroque new towns to the urban planning strategies of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It covers anti - urban modernist architecture and the resulting disintegration of the city. It concludes with late - twentieth - century efforts to recover the city a contemporary urban architecture and urbanism's potential contribution to the contemporary ecological crisis. The book is project oriented and extensively illustrated. It may be read graphically textually or both. As such it falls into the long tradition of illustrated treatises in which theory is embedded in the projects with only occasional assistance or clarification from the text. Architecture and urban design are physical arts not verbal arts and they are best understood from graphic representations.
Title: Temples And Towns The Form Elements And Principles Of Planned Towns
Author(s): Dennis Michael
Publisher: Oro Editions
Barcode: 9781957183022
Pages: 504 Pages, 300 Illustrations, Color
Publication Date: 10/18/2022
Category: History Of Architecture
Description: This book traces the historic evolution of urban form principles and design; it serves as a compendium or reference of city design; and is a polemic about the necessity for the recovery of the city and a contemporary urban architecture. It begins with the planned cities of Greece and the Roman Empire from about 500 BC through the late - medieval Bastides the Ideal Renaissance cities and Baroque new towns to the urban planning strategies of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It covers anti - urban modernist architecture and the resulting disintegration of the city. It concludes with late - twentieth - century efforts to recover the city a contemporary urban architecture and urbanism's potential contribution to the contemporary ecological crisis. The book is project oriented and extensively illustrated. It may be read graphically textually or both. As such it falls into the long tradition of illustrated treatises in which theory is embedded in the projects with only occasional assistance or clarification from the text. Architecture and urban design are physical arts not verbal arts and they are best understood from graphic representations.
Title: Temples And Towns The Form Elements And Principles Of Planned Towns
Author(s): Dennis Michael
Publisher: Oro Editions
Barcode: 9781957183022
Pages: 504 Pages, 300 Illustrations, Color
Publication Date: 10/18/2022
Category: History Of Architecture
