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zondag 30 november 2014

What history tells us 1 _ #Robert Moses

Een stripverhaal / a comic

Het levensverhaal van Robert Moses, de architectstadsplanner die het uitzicht van het huidige New York bepaalde. Graphic novel die je een andere kijk geeft op de Big Apple.Scenario van Pierre Christin: Ravian, Lena en vele albums met Enki Bilal.

The achievements of one man changed the the face of an entire city. Robert Moses: the mastermind of New York. From the subway to the skyscraper, from Manhattan's financial district to the Long Island suburbs, every inch of New York tells the story of one man's mind: Robert Moses, the architect who designed it all. Now, in Pierre Christin and Olivier Balez's new graphic biography, the rest of Robert's story will be told.

zaterdag 23 augustus 2014

In a successful modern city, the car must no longer be king

Our love affair with automobiles has shaped our cities and our lives – but mature metropolises are finally realising that the needs of people are even more important. 


Link: In a successful modern city the car must no longer be king.

Book 1 :How to study public life.
Book 2
                 

dinsdag 19 augustus 2014

The Pedway: Elevating London (Documentary)

The Pedway: Elevating London is a documentary on the post-war redevelopment in the City of London - focusing on the attempt to build an ambitious network of elevated walkways through the city. Featuring interviews with professor of town planning Michael Hebbert (UCL), architecture critic Jonathan Glancey, city planning officer Peter Wynne Rees and writer Nicholas Rudd-Jones (Pathways), the film explores why the 'Pedway' scheme was unsuccessful and captures the abandoned remains that, unknown to the public, still haunt the square mile.

Planned & Constructed by Chris Bevan Lee

Link to video: The Pedway

BOOK: To design footpaths, you can become inspired by:


vrijdag 8 augustus 2014

Shelf Life: 33 Book Recommendations From Architects & Designers



Architects often don’t make time to read. Students and professionals alike will admit that the unread books on their shelves outnumber the ones they’ve read - which is unfortunate because literary contributions to the field of architecture, from Vitruvius toLe Corbusier, have shaped the way we build and use buildings for centuries. With this in mind, ArchitectureBoston polled their readers, asking them to share their favorite architecture and design titles, to compile a list of important architecture books you should set aside some time for. The list covers a wide range of subjects, from historical theory to the practicalities of starting a firm. See all thirty-three titles, after the break.
1. Bookwork: Medium to Object to Concept to Art by Garrett Stewart
An inventive and sophisticated study of the book form as sculptural medium. These “bibliobjects,” as the author calls them, reside at the nexus of artists’ books and conceptual art and point to new modes of literacy. Good Dada-fun: Duchamp meets Buzz Spector! - Martin Antonetti, curator of rare books and director of the book studies concentration, Smith College Libraries
2. Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture by Justin McGuirk
Some cities in Latin America have become paradigms of urban renewal, with design, architecture, and politics at the core of positive transformation. McGuirk renders a portrait of a complex continent that is so hard to get to know, but that we can learn a lot from. - Paola Antonelli, senior curator, Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art
3. House by Tracy Kidder
Published 30 years ago, House remains an outstanding narrative about the design and construction process, and about the birth of an architecture firm. - Stephen Schreiber FAIA, program director in Architecture + Design, University of Massachusetts/Amherst
4. Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production edited by Gail Peter Borden and Michael Meredith.
Offers an expanded architectural design practice and education — one that tests spatial and material ideas through fabrication at multiple scales, in new time frames, to re-imagine architecture and our experiences. - Karen Nelson, head of the School of Architecture, Boston Architectural College
5. Sir Banister Fletcher’s A History of Architecture
The foremost history of Western architecture, extensively illustrated.
6. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein
A compendium of pieces that, when linked through examination of the natural world, create wholes, to the delight of the people who use buildings.
7. The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
A small and personal analysis of the features of architecture that bring joy into our lives.
8. The RSVP Cycles: Creative Processes in the Human Environment by Lawrence Halprin
Architecture as the choreography of people in the built landscape.- Diane Georgopulos FAIA, MassHousing
9. The Shingle Style and the Stick Style by Vincent J. Scully, Jr.
Changed how we see 19th-century architecture and how we design in the 20th and 21st centuries.
10. The Highway and the City by Lewis Mumford
Passionate and eloquent essays; why don’t we write and argue about architecture like this today?
11. The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
The best book ever written on how the American city is built and unbuilt.
12. Hav by Jan Morris
A tantalizing travel guide to a city you never heard of.
13. Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell
Nobody looks more closely, listens more carefully, or writes better about New York. - Jay Wickersham FAIA, Noble & Wickersham
14. Chicagoisms: The City as Catalyst for Architectural Speculation by Alexander Eisenschmidt and Jonathan Mekinda
That rare book able to interest both academics and non-architect city lovers, “Chicagoisms” is a catalog of smart, readable essays and illustrated interludes uncovering the city’s appetite for the spectacular (Ferris’ wheel, Burnham’s Plan, Kapoor’s Cloud Gate), balanced with fascinating new scholarship on, among other things, Chicago’s surprisingly large influence on European urban theory.
15. Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan by 
Before S, M, L, XL, there was Delirious, the book that made Rem’s name. In his hands, New York becomes remythologized as a gridiron palimpsest of architectural capitalism.
16. From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe
Wolfe’s retelling of the Modern Movement is acerbic, hilarious, and often wrong, but a useful reminder to architects of the suspicion Modernism still arouses in America.
17. Architecture in the United States by Dell Upton
Less a comprehensive history than a project to reclaim architecture from architects, Upton’s wry prose casts a gimlet eye onto the pretensions of “art-architecture” from the colonial era to the present.
18. The Details of Modern Architecture, Volumes 1 and 2 by Edward R. Ford
As the pioneeering Modernists were inventing new forms, so were they inventing new constructional methods. Ford’s astonishingly researched study, illustrated with invaluable drawings, reveals the ingenuity of this ad hoc tectonic, as well as its misalignment with Modernist rhetoric.- Ian Baldwin, lecturer at Rhode Island School of Design
19. A Guide to Archigram 1961–74 by Dennis Crompton
The impact of the Archigramproject was in shifting the architectural site of inquiry from the building and urban scale to a smaller human scale and then scaling up again. In 1994, when the first edition of this monograph was released, students were still wrestling with Deconstruction and the fallout of Postmodernism. Archigram filled a void that many of us felt in attempting to engage architecture at a more human, visceral level — one where the human/user was integral to a larger system of factors and networks.
20. Incorporations (Zone 6) by Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter.
What Archigram seemed to prefigure in technological and mechanical terms at the scale of the body, Incorporations more deeply addressed through explorations in biology, neurology, art, and film. This edited collection of “dossiers” spoke directly to the idea that the body was not necessarily becoming a site of architecture, but that organism of the body, in all its complexity, was precisely the site of architecture. At a deeper level, the book planted the idea that a failure to think this way was quickly becoming a failure to think architecturally at all. - Lee Moreau, principal at Continuum
21. The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses by Juhani Pallasmaa
The first half is the history of how we have developed, since the Greeks, as a culture around sight; the second half is about how architecture (together with landscape) can awaken our other senses—smell, touch, hearing. Written by a Finnish writer/philosopher with great examples that span art, design, and buildings.- Tamara Roy AIA, principal at ADD Inc
22. Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China by Paul Theroux
Experience the lesser-known China by rail at the juncture of socioeconomic upheaval, through the eyes of a prolific travel writer who details people, places, and ambiance with brutal honesty.
23. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Imaginary conversations between the Venetian traveler Marco Polo and the aged Mongol ruler Kublai Khan frame approaches to thinking about cities and the forms they might take.- Sho-Ping Chin FAIA, principal at Payette
24. Design with Nature by Ian L. McHarg
Post-Katrina and Sandy, McHarg’s vision of communities hugging the high ground while floodplains are used to manage water flow and provide productive land for agriculture is more relevant than ever.
25. TASCHEN’s Architecture Now! series by Philip Jodidio
Essential catalogs of the best work globally, these inspiring books represent an efficient means of instruction across the design professions.- Charlotte Kahn, former research analyst at The Boston Foundation
ARCHITECTURE BOSTON STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS
26. Why Architecture Matters by 
Raises awareness of proportion, scale, space, texture, materials, shapes, light, and memory; in doing so, readers appreciate and experience the built world anew.
27. Fifty Typefaces That Changed the World by John L. Walters
A witty discussion about the meaning and influence of type, from the ancient world to the digital future.
28. A Field Guide to American Houses: The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America’s Domestic Architecture by Virginia Savage McAlester
An invaluable easy-to-use resource for everyone who wants to know more about the culture and history of their own homes and communities.
29. The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
A typographer-poet combines the practical, theoretical, and historical in this masterful style guide.
30. The Library: A World History by James W. P. Campbell; photographs by Will Pryce
Each age and culture has reinvented the library, and this combination of authoritative text and stunning photography illuminates the story in a single volume.
31. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
This irresistible, deeply researched true story parallels Daniel H. Burnham’s meticulous construction of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair with the diabolical building plans of H.H. Holmes, a fraudster and serial killer who exploited the fair for riches — and victims.
32. Design Writing Research: Writing on Graphic Design by Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller
This beautifully illustrated study is a vital source on the art and history of books, letter forms, symbols, advertising, and theories of visual and verbal communication.
33. 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School by Matthew Frederick
A jargon-free zone of clarity and utility. Not a substitute for a master’s degree, but an invaluable supplement.
Link:archdaily


maandag 28 april 2014

Boeken / Books


The 100 "Best" Books on City-Making Ever Written?
100 boeken over stede(n)bouw

(politiekers mogen beginnen lezen; niet politiekers ook)


100. Sustainable Communities_Sim Van der Ryn and Peter Calthorpe
99. Design with Nature_Ian McHarg
98. Ecocities_Richard Register
97. Highline: the Inside Story of New York City's Park In The Sky_David and Hammond
96. The Geography of Nowhere_James Howard Kunstler
95. Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination_Lance Berelowitz
94. Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future_Matt Hern
93. Building Barcelona_Peter Rowe
92. Cities Back from the Edge: New Life For Downtown_Roberta Brandes Gratz and Norman Mintz
91. Urban Design and the Bottom Line: Optimizing the Return on Perception_Dennis Jerke, Douglas Porter, Terry Lassar
90. Delirious New York_Rem Koolhaas
89. The Shape of the City: Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning_John Sewell
88. Sprawl Repair Manual_Galina Tachieva
87. Public Sydney: Drawing the City_Thalis and Cantrill
86. Agricultural Urbanism_Janine de la Salle and Mark Holland
85. Learning from Las Vegas_Robert Venturi et al
84. Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities_Southworth and Ben-Joseph
83. Cities and Natural Process_Michael Hough
82. Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture_Witold Rybczynski
81. The Principles of Green Urbanism: Transforming the City for Sustainability_Steffen Lehmann
80. Smart Cities_Anthony Townsend
79. Civilizing American Cities_Frederick Law Olmsted
78. City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age_P.D. Smith
77. The New City_John Lorinc
76. Designing Community: Charrettes,Master Plans and Form-Based Codes_David Walters
75. The Option of Urbanism_Christopher Leinberger
74. City Making in Paradise: Nine Decisions that Saved Vancouver_Mike Harcourt and Ken Cameron
73. The Wealth of Cities_John Norquist
72. The Geography of Hope_Chris Turner
71. The Great Good Place_Ray Oldenburg
70. Urban Code: 100 Lessons for Understanding the City_Mikoleit & Purckhauer
69. The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space_Don Mitchell
68. The New Transit Town: Best Practices in Transit-Oriented Development_Hank Dittmar and Gloria Ohland
67. The Fractured Metropolis_Jonathan Barnett
66. Walking Home: the Life and Lessons of a City Builder_Ken Greenberg
65. Wrestling with Moses_Anthony Flint
64. E-Topia: "Urban Life, Jim – But Not As We Know It"_William Mitchell (& City of Bits)
63. The Next American Metropolis_Peter Calthorpe
62. Grand Urban Rules_Alex Lehnerer
61. The Language of Towns and Cities: A Visual Dictionary_Dhiru Thadani
60. Public Places Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design_Matthew Carmona, Tim Heath, Taner Oc, Steve Tiesdell_
59. Cities are Good for You: the Genius of the Metropolis_Leo Hollis
58. Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change_Peter Calthorpe
57. A Country of Cities: a Manifesto for an Urban America_Vishaan Chakrabarti
56. Urban Design Downtown: Poetics and Politics of Form_Loukaitou-Sideris & Banerjee
55. The Pedestrian Pocketbook: a New Suburban Design Strategy_Doug Kelbaugh
54. The Old Way of Seeing_Jonathan Hale
53. Green Metropolis_David Owen
52. City Comforts: How to Build and Urban Village_David Sucher
51. Global City Blues_Daniel Solomon
50. People Places: Design Guidelines for Urban Open Space_Cooper Marcus & Francis
49. Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs_Dunham-Jones and Williamson
48. Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities_Patrick Condon
47. The New Civic Art_Duany, Plater-Zyberk & Alminana
46. Sustainable Transportation Planning_Jeffrey Tumlin
45. Triumph of the City_Edward Glaeser
44. Who's Your City_Richard Florida
43. Perverse Cities_Pamela Blais
42. The Public Face of Architecture: Civic Culture and Public Spaces_Nathan Glazer and Mark Lilla
41. Cities of Tomorrow_Peter Hall
40. Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature_Douglas Farr
39. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things_McDonough and Braungart
38. Visualizing Density_Julie Campoli and Alex MacLean
37. Suburban Nation_Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck
36. Eco-Urbanity: Towards Well Mannered Built Environments_Darko Radovic
35. Le Pieton Dans la Ville/Walking in the City: Sharing Public Space_Jean-Jacques Terrin
34. Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well-being and Sustainability_Dannenberg et al
33. Good City Form_Kevin Lynch
32. The Vancouver Achievement_John Punter
31. Livable Streets_Donald Appleyard
30. The City in History_Lewis Mumford (and The Culture of Cities, The Highway and the City, The Urban Prospect, etc)
29. Town Spaces_Rob KrierN or Urban Space _Rob Krier
28. New Design Cities_Commerce Design Montreal
27. Design for Ecological Democracy_Randolph Hester
26. The American Vitruvius: An Architects Handbook of Civic Art_Hegemann and Peets
25. Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change_Reid Ewing, Keith Bartholomew, Steve Winkelman, Jerry Walters, and Don Chen
24. The Great Reset_Richard Florida
23. Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design_Charles Montgomery
22. The Power Broker – Robert Moses and the Fall of New York_Robert A. Caro
21. The High Cost of Free Parking_Donald Shoup
20. Straphanger: Saving our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile_Taras Grescoe
19. Human Transit_Jarrett Walker
18. City Cycling_Pucher & Buehler
17. Walkable City_Jeff Speck
16. Cerdà and the Barcelona of the Future: Reality versus Project_Ajuntament de Barcelona
15. Modern Civic Art, or The City Made Beautiful_Charles Mulford Robinson
14. Cities and the Wealth of Nations_Jane Jacobs
13. The City Shaped (& its partner, The City Assembled)_Spiro Kostof
12. The Creative City_Charles Landry
11. Town Planning in Practice_Raymond Unwin
10. Life Between Buildings_Jan Gehl
9. The Image of the City_Kevin Lynch
8. Townscape_Gordon Cullen
7. The Art of Building Cities_Camillo Sitte
6. A Pattern Language_Christopher Alexander et al (& his whole series, including A New Theory of Urban Design; The Timeless Way of Building, etc.)
5. City: Rediscovering The Center_William H. Whyte _ includes its smaller predecessor, "the Social LIfe of Small Urban Spaces"
4. Great Streets_Allan Jacobs
3. The Death and Life of Great American Cities_Jane Jacobs
2. The Art of City Making_Charles Landry

1. Cities for People_Jan Gehl

zaterdag 8 maart 2014

Leeswijzer / Readings

'Het syndroom van verkavelingsvlaanderen. Een radicaal pleidooi voor stedelijk wonen.'






Auteur : Filip Canfyn
Filip Canfyn is burgerlijk ingenieur-architect. Sinds 2008 is hij directeur stadsplanning en -ontwikkeling van diverse publicaties rond wonen en is onafhankelijk expert voor de Vlaamse Regering in de Vlaamse Woonraad.

Het Boek
De uitdaging van Vlaanderen bestaat erin om op korte termijn honderdduizenden nieuwe gezinnen te huisvesten maar ook zijn ruimtegebruik, zijnenergieverbruik en zijn mobiliteitslast onder controle te krijgen.
Het huidige verkavelingsvlaanderen, de breed uitgesmeerde suburbane habitat vol huizen-met-tuin in-volle-eigendom, het gewilde resultaat van anti-stedelijke traditie, verkeerde kleinschaligheidsdrang en gesubsidieerd pendelgedrag, kan niet meer als duurzame oplossing verkocht worden.

Meer nog, verkavelingsvlaanderen staat ook voor een nefaste vermiddenklassing, die eveneens moet ingedijkt worden. Die vermiddenklassingdistantieert zich niet alleen van de stad maar ook van de als stedelijk gebrandmerkte kansarmen, werklozen, niet-blanken en eenoudergezinnen, voelt zich beter maar ook bedreigd als hardwerkend huishouden met ruim perceel en wagenpark, en verdedigt het eigen ego- en etnocentrisch gedrag als goed voor de economie, voor de democratisering en dus voor het algemeen belang.

We moeten daarom de woonbanden met de stad weer bewust aanhalen, het stedelijk patrimonium weer bewoonbaar maken, binnen de stad weer betaalbaar verdichten, de stedelijke omgeving weer als collectieve woning verhuren.

We moeten de stad weer écht van en voor iedereen maken, om er weer samen te wonen en te leven.

Zo worden ruimte, energie, mobiliteit en centen gespaard. Zo wordt de samenleving hersteld. Zo wordt Vlaanderen genezen.
Dit boek toont overtuigend met 'facts and figures' het bestaan van dat verkavelingsvlaanderen en die vermiddenklassing aan en onderbouwt vanuit verschillende invalshoeken het pleidooi voor stedelijk wonen.

BOEKVOORSTELLINGEN
DO 06/03 - 18.00u: Onderzoeksseminarie Cosmopolis VUB
DI 18/03 - 20.00u: BOEKHANDEL THEORIA - Kortrijk
Filip Canfyn geeft toelichting bij zijn boek.
WOE 19/03 - 20.00u: BOEKHANDEL De ZONDVLOED - Mechelen
Filip Canfyn gaat in debat met Bart Somers (OpenVLD) over stad en nieuwe stedelijkheid
DO 08/05 - 20.00u: BOEKHANDEL DE LIMERICK - Gent

Filip Canfyn spreekt over Verkavelingsvlaanderen met Pascal De Decker (socioloog, architectuurdocent,..)

donderdag 19 december 2013

100 Best Books on Landscape Architecture by Tom Turner

Tom Turner is an English landscape architect, garden designer and garden historian. 



Link:100 books

The 100 "Best" Books on City-Making Ever Written?

Brent Toderian selects the 100 best books on city-making that he's collected and read over the years.




Brent Toderian is a nationally & internationally Spractitioner with over 20 years of experience in advanced urbanism, city planning and design. He launched his new consultancy, TODERIAN UrbanWORKS, following 6 years of significant achievement as Vancouver Canada’s Chi
ef Planner (2006-2012).


woensdag 11 december 2013

How to Study Public Life



In How to Study Public Life Jan Gehl and Birgitte Svarre draw from their combined experience of over 50 years to provide a history of public-life study as well as methods and tools necessary to recapture city life as an important planning dimension.

Gehl, J. and Svarre, B. (2013) How to Study Public Life, Island Press

Link:Public Space Public Life Studies

zondag 25 november 2012

1889 _ Camillo Site _ De Stedebouw

Camillo Sitte. De Stedebouw volgens zijn artistieke grondbeginselen.Voor mij nog steeds zeer inspirerend bij het vormgeven van de stad.



____________________________________________________________________________
 Ik verkies Stedebouw boven StedeNbouw.
 Stedebouw zegt meer over wat het gaat. De Stede. 

maandag 19 november 2012

Leeswijzer / Readings

 Basis Boek . Gaat over het belangrijkste aspect van de Landschaps- en Tuinarchitectuur. 
De RUIMTE.
/
Basic Book. Deals with the most important aspect of the Landscape and Architecture. 
The SPACE.

Plaatskenmerk: Erasmushogeschool Brussel Biblioteek Campus Jette / Brussel:Dep HORTECO 712-051SÖRE SÖR

vrijdag 16 november 2012

Leeswijzer / Readings

Lezen over mensen en de stad / Reading about people and the city


Plaatskenmerk: Erasmushogeschool Brussel Biblioteek Campus Jette / Brussel: 711.4 GEL


vrijdag 9 november 2012

Pour la Protection de la Nature en Belgique

100 jaar geleden uitgegeven.
Het eerste boek over natuur bescherming in Belgïe.

Published 100 years ago.
The first booek on nature protection in Belgium.