Towers in the city : Berlin Alexanderplatz /
This book examines the tower as the architectural expression of a long-term commitment to the city, arguing that development must be driven not only by property value and architectural ingenuity but also by a responsibility to collective memory and to a common humanity. These public commitments find...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven, Connecticut :
Yale School of Architecture,
[2021]
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| Summary: | This book examines the tower as the architectural expression of a long-term commitment to the city, arguing that development must be driven not only by property value and architectural ingenuity but also by a responsibility to collective memory and to a common humanity. These public commitments find architectural expression in a tectonic radically different to that of contemporary patterns of development. Taking Berlin's Alexanderplatz as an opportunity for studying the role of the skyscraper within the urban fabric, the volume presents a series of prompts, provocations and projects to address the challenge of designing a tower that can be understood as a monolithic whole, even if it is assembled from discrete parts. |
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| Physical Description: | 158 pages : chiefly color illustrations, plans ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1638409021 9781638409021 |