Main entry:

Lerup, Lars, author.

Title & Author:

After the city / Lars Lerup.

Publication:

Cambridge : MIT Press, [2000]

Description:

200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-194) and index.
The Metropolis: A Portfolio of Images -- Tafuri's Smile -- The Wanderer, Authority, and Doublespace -- The Straying Gaze -- Stones at Rest -- The Fye in the Center -- The Face of Power -- The Doublespace -- The Suburban Metropolis -- Stim and Dross: Rethinking the Metropolis -- Houston, 28th Floor. At the Window -- Megashape -- Intention -- The Plane, the Riders, and Air Space -- Fields -- Sprawl -- Oceanic Grammar -- Entortung -- Stim and Dross -- Stimulators -- Stimdross -- Sparta's Revenge -- The Other City -- Virgin Fields -- A Certain Distance -- The Protean Field -- Radical Mobility -- Voids and Vapors -- Architecture Reconsidered -- The End of the Architectural Promenade: A Portfolio of Images -- Distraction versus Concentration -- Planned Assaults -- Ambiguity and Action -- The Metropolitan Architect -- Architects' Hands -- The Architect's House -- The Architect in the Metropolis -- Vehicular Behavior: A Portfolio of Images -- Design Machines -- Mechanisms of Closeness -- Household Vehicles -- Toward Fusion -- The Simple House -- The Frontier -- The Middle Landscape -- Frontiers -- Museum Geography -- Frontier Ecology -- Architecture and Biota.
Current Copyright Fee: GBP15.00 0.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"Until now, architects have been trained to serve the elite few, as reflected in a belief in customization and the uniqueness of each project. Instead, Lerup holds, architectural educators should promote teamwork and the design of authorless objects, combined with an integration of design and practice. Before we can rethink the architectural curriculum, however, we must rethink the metropolis."
"And rethink the metropolis is just what Lerup does. He moves from contemplation of the form and philosophical implications of the Pantheon to a discussion of how Levittown residents seek and create community. The result is a work with profound practical implications. Unlike the many who view suburbia with paranoid dismay, Lerup takes an optimistic view of the new, open metropolis - for him not the site of unavoidable uniformity and mediocrity, but an exciting new frontier."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0262122243 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780262122245 (hc ; alk. paper)
0262621576
9780262621571

Subject:

Lerup, Lars
City planning History 20th century.
City planning Philosophy.
Metropolitan areas.
Suburbs.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Urbanisme Histoire 20e siècle.
Urbanisme Philosophie.
Agglomérations urbaines.
Banlieues.
Architecture 20e siècle.
metropolitan areas.
Architecture, Modern.
City planning.
Stedenbouw.
Theorieën.
Arquitetura moderna.
Planejamento territorial urbano.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 211810
Call No.: NA44.L621.A35 2000
Status: Available