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Liberal Monument

Name: Liberal Monument
Brand: Princeton Architectural Press
SKU: 9781568988245
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Urban Design and the Late Modern Project

Autor: Alexander d'Hooghe

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: Princeton Architectural Press

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Architect Alexander D'Hooghe believes urban design has lost its way. Once among the most articulate...

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Autor

Alexander d'Hooghe

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2009

strony

240

EAN

9781568988245

ISBN

1568988249

Enbook ID

04816936

Wydawca

Princeton Architectural Press

Waga

340

Wymiary

161 x 232 x 16

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Architect Alexander D'Hooghe believes urban design has lost its way. Once among the most articulate and avant-garde of disciplines, the field now lacks, he suggests, the confidence necessary to address its most critical challengesprawl. In his provocative manifesto The Liberal Monument, D'Hooghe argues that architecture and urbanism must boldly intervene in city planning and growth management. This strategic use of architecture represents, for him, the last hope to revitalize the "quasi-endless gray carpet" spreading between theworld's urban centers. D'Hooghe's starting point requires a reassessment of discarded, sometimes disgraced, late-modern theories of placemaking. D'Hooghe points out that the very idea of top-down urban planning and monumentalized space was jettisoned due to its commonly held associations with the monumental neoclassicism andsymbolism employed by Nazi architect and urban planner Albert Speer. D'Hooghe respectfully posits that we should not allow this perversion of thought to preclude our own thinking at the scale of urban planning. D'Hooghe travels the world in search of experiments in urbanism and findsin the ruins of these failed utopiasa way forward. He discovers in the work of "second-generation" modernists Sigfried Giedion and Louis I. Kahn an effort to connect architecture, planning, and liberal politics. This becomes the seed for what he calls "the liberal monument." The Liberal Monument is a provocative, accessible work of theory that challenges all of the accepted truths of urban design. Its goal is to restore the confidence architecture will need, whether it is building cities from the ground up in China and Dubai or managing the growth of the sprawling suburbs of Phoenix and Raleigh/Durham.