The continuous city : fourteen essays on architecture and urbanization / Lars Lerup ; foreword by Jesús Vassallo.

Main entry:

Lerup, Lars, author.

Title & Author:

The continuous city : fourteen essays on architecture and urbanization / Lars Lerup ; foreword by Jesús Vassallo.

Publication:

Description:

219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Urban scene -- Flat urbanism -- Topography & topology -- Jungle & city -- Garden & jungle -- Terragni's mirror -- The new geology -- Encumbered section -- Parking plus -- Trembling plans -- The hidden powers of the megashape -- Urbanization & the oil patch -- Architecture, the city, & the third distance -- Next steps.

Summary:

The fourteen essays in The Continuous City offer a survey of Lerup's thinking on identity and monumentality and the relationship between nature and culture. His interest and reflections focus, among other things, on Roberto Burle Marx, a founder of modern landscape design; the 'dancing floors' of Rem Koolhaas's Seattle Central Library; Herzog & de Meuron's 1111 Lincoln Road project in Miami Beach; and the character of urban icons like Coop Himmelb(l)au's Dalian International Conference Center.

ISBN:

3038600660 (hardcover)
9783038600664 (hardcover)

Subject:

Lerup, Lars 1940-
Architecture.
Urbanization.
City planning.
Urbanisation.
urbanization.
architecture (discipline)
Architektur
Architekturtheorie
Stadt
Städtebau
Verstädterung
Bouwkunst
Stadsplanning
Urbanisatie

Added entries:

Vassallo, Jesús, writer of foreword.
Architecture at Rice University.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 299392
Call No.: BIB 245481
Status: Available

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