Urban Design as Craft
Eleven Conversations and Seven Projects 1999-2011
Distributed for gta publishers
152 pages
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84 color plates
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8 x 12
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© 2011
In eleven pointed and sometimes provocative conversations, architect and professor of architecture, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani uses a critique of contemporary urban planning to develop principles for reestablishing the discipline. In seven projects designed with these principles in mind, he shows how his vigorous reinterpretation of the field can be implemented and what a fresh start can look like. Magnago Lampugnani envisages a calm modern city that can measure itself against the historic city, while emphasizing sustainability and providing a home for a multifaceted and continually changing society.
Contents
Combined German/English Edition
Preface
Eleven conversations on the architecture of the city
Building and enduring
Intelligent banality
Modernity and beauty
Learning from older urban structures
The city is the place for tolerance par excellence
Tear it down if necessary! A plea for intelligence in urban planning
Urban planning needs explicit guidelines
Against shopping malls
What’s genuine is what matches our lifestyle
Every city has to develop its own face
We still need to learn long-term thinking
Seven projects
Research campus, East Hanover, New Jersey
Färbi district, Schlieren
Science City ETH Hōnggerberg, Zurich
Mergellina underground railway station, Naples
Redesign of Theresienstrasse, Ingolstadt
Unterfeld district, Baar
Research campus, Siena
Biography
Sources
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