Main entry:

Betsky, Aaron.

Title & Author:

At home in sprawl : selected essays on architecture / Aaron Betsky.

Publication:

Melbourne : RMIT University Press, 2011.

Description:

ix, 230 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Emptiness on the range : western spaces -- Riding the A Train to the aleph : eight utopias for Los Angeles -- California dreaming -- Making ourselves at home in sprawl -- Skinning the program : the pragmatic architecture of Koning Eizenberg -- From box to intersection : architecture at the crossroads -- Virtual reality : the legacy of digital architecture -- Latent realities -- Beyond 89 degrees -- From edge city to urban countryside -- Rem Koolhaas : the fire of Manhattanism within the iceberg of modernism -- MVRDV : the Matrix project -- Diller + Scofidio, display engineers -- Brian Alfred's flat world -- Re: Droog -- Strangeness of the faniliar in design -- Eating one's bird nest and having it too : Ai Weiwei photographs in the Beijing Olympic Stadium -- Branded cocoon : architecture at ten miles up -- Questions concerning architecture : speculations on the spectacle out there.

Summary:

Over more than two decades of writing, Aaron Betsky as used his knowledge of architecture and urbanism to argue for the ways in which buildings, cities and landscapes help us understand where we are, where we have come from, and where we are going.

ISBN:

9781921426858 (pbk.)
1921426853 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture.
Cities and towns Growth.
Villes Croissance.
urban sprawl.
suburban growth.
Architektur
Essay
Stedenbouw.

Form/genre:

Essays.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 279775
Call No.: BIB 215996
Status: Available