Urban literacy : reading and writing architecture / Klaske Havik ; [foreword by Juhani Pallasmaa].

Main entry:

Havik, Klaske, 1975-

Title & Author:

Urban literacy : reading and writing architecture / Klaske Havik ; [foreword by Juhani Pallasmaa].

Publication:

Description:

255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Departure : Prologue : The triple bridge -- A literary approach -- Description : Description: subject and object -- Architectural experience: reading places -- Architectural description: Steven Holl -- Transcription : Transcription: author and reader -- Architecture and use: telling places -- Architectural transcription: Bernard Tschumi -- Prescription : Prescription: reality and imagination -- Architecture and imagination: writing places -- Architectural prescription: Rem Koolhaas -- Arrival : Perspectives: literary methods in education -- Reflections: urban literacy in research -- Projections: urban literacy in practice -- Epilogue : Plečnik's story.

Summary:

Literature offers valuable insights into how people experience, use and imagine places. In an accessible yet scientifically underpinned manner, Urban Literacy offers new methods for reading and writing all sorts of places, from architecture to urban space. The literary approach in this book stems from criticism of a lack of attention for the above-mentioned aspects in the architectural and urban planning debate: experiencing, using and imagining. This book brings together a variety of disciplines and theoretical approaches by means of three literary concepts: description, transcription and prescription. It translates them into the domain of architecture and urban planning, among other things through analyses of the work of Steven Holl, Bernard Tschumi and Rem Koolhaas.

ISBN:

9789462081215 (pbk.)
9462081212 (pbk.)

Subject:

Koolhaas, Rem Criticism and interpretation.
Holl, Steven Criticism and interpretation.
Tschumi, Bernard, 1944- Criticism and interpretation.
Architecture 20th century.
Architecture in literature.
Architectural writing.
Communication in architectural design.
Architecture dans la littérature.
Architecture Art d'écrire.
Communication en design architectural.
Architecture and Planning.
Architecture.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.

Added entries:

Reading and writing architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 288783
Call No.: BIB 230684
Status: Available

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