Bates, Stephen, author.

From the room to the city : Munich - urbanity and complexity / Stephen Bates, Bruno Krucker ; photography, Simon Burko.

Zürich, Switzerland : Park Books, [2023]

352 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans ; 29 cm

Over a period of ten years, as part of their joint teaching at the Technical University of Munich, British architect Stephen Bates and his Zurich-based colleague Bruno Krucker explored, investigated, and analyzed the Bavarian capital in collaboration with their students. The resulting in-depth study evaluates the city?s building history and ideas for its future in detail, and is now being presented in the form of a highly attractive compendium.00This richly illustrated book takes a close look at the European city in general, using Munich as an example. Its features are illuminated through a variety of means: atmospheric photographs, precise plans, drawings, images of models, and texts reveal the multi-layered and complex character of the place with all its particularities, coincidences, and intentions.00Like many other European cities, Munich has also been subject to incisive changes, whether through planned expansions, infrastructural developments, or war damage. This volume highlights how big plans and visions have often remained piecemeal, bound up with the paradigms of a generation, yet precisely because of this have proven to be unmistakable elements that shape Munich up to this day. Alongside this, individual new structures have resulted in continuous changes to the character of streets and demonstrate that the unfinished and unplanned are just as much a part of a city?s beauty.

9783038602880 hardbound
3038602884 hardbound

City planning Germany Munich.
Architecture Germany Munich.
Architecture Allemagne Munich.
City planning
Munich (Germany) Buildings, structures, etc.
Germany Munich

Krucker, Bruno, 1961- author.
Burko, Simon, photographer.

Location: Library main 318236
Call No.: 318236
Copy: 1
Status: Available