Main entry:

Christiaanse, Kees, author, architect.

Title & Author:

Textbook : collected texts on the built environment, 1990-2018 / Kees Christiaanse ; edited by Jessica Bridger.

Publication:

Rotterdam : Nai010 Publishers, [2018]
©2018

Description:

256 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans (some color) ; 19 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Machine generated contents note: 01. Creating Conditions for Freedom -- 02. In Search of Lost Urbanity -- 03. Fuck the Programme? -- 04. Housing in Harbours in Holland -- 05. A Green Archipelago -- 06. The Open City and its Enemies -- 07. A Smouldering Fire Gleaming in the Dark -- 08. The European Urban Condition -- Drawings -- 09. Remote Control -- 10. Traces of the City as Loft -- 11. The Train and the Plane -- 12. Urban Design (Because We Need a Vision) -- Watercolours -- 13. Scale -- 14. Green Urbanism. Models of a Dense and Green Urban Context -- 15. The Future of Logistics and Production in Dense Urban Areas -- 16. Inverse Urban Design: Inversion and Subtraction in the Airport Region -- 17. The Bike -- 18. Porous or Porridge City? -- 19. Global Feldis -- 20. Lifestyle Exercise -- 21. Living in the City: A Resident's Career -- Sketches -- 22. Interview.

Summary:

Kees Christiaanse is one of the field's most influential forces in urban design over the last half-century. Textbook spans 30 years of the well-known urban designer and architect Kees Christiaanse's thinking about cities. He is responsible for large urban projects, including Hamburg HafenCity, Rotterdam's waterfront revitalization and London's Olympic Legacy Plan. The collected texts range from charting the influence of the bicycle on his thinking about future mobility to the examination of dominant concepts and projects in the contemporary built environment. Illustrations of Christiaanse's sketches, personal notebook pages and watercolours complement this unique collection. Kees Christiaanse is the author of a multitude of books and essays about architecture and urban planning and was recently awarded with the lifetime honour '2016 RIBA International Fellowship' for his particular contribution to architecture.

ISBN:

9789462084421 (paperback)
9462084424 (paperback)
(pdf ebook)
9789462084438

Subject:

Christiaanse, Kees.
Christiaanse, Kees 1953-
City planning.
City planning Philosophy.
Architekturkritik
Architekturtheorie
Stadtplanung
Städtebau

Added entries:

Bridger, Jessica, editor.

Collected texts on the built environment, 1990-2018

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 307137
Call No.: BIB 252644
Status: Available