The largest art : a measured manifesto for a plural urbanism /
Urban design in practice is incremental, but architects imagine it as scaled-up architecture, large, ready-to-build pop-up cities. This paradox of urban design is rarely addressed. Indeed, urban design as a discipline lacks a theoretical foundation. In 'The Largest Art', Brent Ryan argues...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
MIT Press,
[2017]
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| Summary: | Urban design in practice is incremental, but architects imagine it as scaled-up architecture, large, ready-to-build pop-up cities. This paradox of urban design is rarely addressed. Indeed, urban design as a discipline lacks a theoretical foundation. In 'The Largest Art', Brent Ryan argues that urban design encompasses more than architecture, and he provides a foundational theory of urban design beyond the architectural scale. Ryan looks at three well-known urban design projects through the lens of pluralism, a Brancusi sculptural ensemble in Romania, a Bronx housing project and a formally and spatially diverse grouping of projects in Ljubljana, Slovenia. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 364 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780262036672 0262036673 |