Makower Touching the City

Thoughts on Urban Scale
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-73758-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Architectural Design Primer

Scale in cities is relative and absolute. It has the ability tomake us feel at home in the world or alien from it; connected ordisconnected. Both large and small scale in cities can bebeautiful; both are right, neither is wrong. Whilst accepting thatprescription is no answer, 'getting the scale right' - at anintuitive and sensual level - is a fundamental part of themagic of architecture and urban design. Touching the City exploreshow scale is manifested in cities, exploring scale in buildings, inthe space between them and in their details. It asks how scalemakes a difference.
Travelling from Detroit to Chandigarh, via New York, London,Paris, Rome and Doha, Tim Makower explores cities with theanalytical eye of a designer and with the experiential eye of theurban dweller. Looking at historic cities, he asks what is goodabout them: what can we learn from the old to inform the new? Thebook zooms in from the macro scale of surfing Google Earth to micromoments such as finding fossils in a weathered wall. It examinesthe dynamics and movement patterns of cities, the making of streetsand skylines, the formation of thresholds and facades, and it alsotouches on the process of design and the importance of drawing. Asthe book's title, Touching the City, suggests, it alsoemphasises the tactile - that the city is indeed somethingphysical, something we can touch and be touched by, alive and everchanging.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Makower, Timothy

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Foreword: Scaling the XXL - Kees Christiaanse
Introduction
Chapter 1: On Scale and Size
Chapter 2: On Scale and Movement
Chapter 3: On Scale and Edges
Chapter 4: On Scale and Grain
Chapter 5: On Scale and Form
Chapter 6: On Scale, Skeletons and Surface
Chapter 7: On Scale and Detail
Conclusion: From Nature
Select Bibliography
Index
Picture Credits

Über Autor(innen)

Tim Makower is an architect and urbanist. He was educated at Cambridge and the Royal College of Art. He worked with Allies and Morrison for 25 years and became a partner there in 2006. He led many of their major projects of architecture and urban design, including projects in the UK such as the King's Cross Masterplan, Bankside, Liverpool One, St Andrews Bromley-by-Bow and in the Middle East, Msheireb, the National Archive of Qatar, Sidra Village and others. In 2012 he left Allies and Morrison to found Makower Architects, and he is now engaged in new projects which include the Al Rayyan Gate Masterplan, the Qatar Bio-Hub, the Regeneration Framework for Old Doha and the GORD Eco-Villa. He has been involved for many years in education in Qatar, the UK and also in the United States and has published numerous articles. From 2011 to 2012, he held the co-chair of architecture and urban design at Qatar University.