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Site and Composition - Design Strategies in Architecture and Urbanism (Paperback)
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Site and Composition - Design Strategies in Architecture and Urbanism (Paperback)
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Site and Composition examines design strategies and tactics in site
making. It is concerned with the need for a renewed understanding
of the site in the twenty-first century and the need for a critical
position regarding the continued tendency to view the site as an
isolated 'fragment' severed from its wider context. The book argues
revisiting the traditional instruments or means of both siting and
composition in Architecture to explore their true potential in
achieving connections between site and context. Through the various
examples studied here it is suggested that such instrumental means
have the potential for achieving greater poetic outcomes. The book
focuses on the works of twentieth century architects of
wide-ranging persuasion - Peter Eisenman, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd
Wright, Alvaro Siza, Herzog and de Meuron, and Charles Correa, for
example - who have strived in quite different ways to achieve
deeper engagement with the physical qualities of place and context.
Departing from a reconsideration of the fragment, Site and
Composition emphasises the role of the 'positive fragment' in
achieving both historical continuity and renewed wholeness. The
potential of both planimetric and sectional compositional methods
are explored, emphasising the importance of reciprocity between
'inside' and 'outside' - between fragment and the whole, as well as
materiality. Written in a clear and accessible manner, this book
makes vital reading for both researchers and students of
architecture and urbanism.
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