Collage City

by Colin Rowe, Fred Koetter

Overview

Collage City ist eine Kritik der modernen Architektur und zugleich der Aufruf, Theorie und Praxis von Planung und Städtebau zu überdenken. Colin Rowe und Fred Koetter erklären die moderne Architektur als Heilsbotschaft und den modernen Städtebau als Versuch, eine Idealvorstellung von totaler Ordnung zu verwirklichen. Sie unterscheiden zwei Arten von Utopien: Utopie als Objekt der Betrachtung und Utopie als Handlungsanweisung. Sie unterscheiden zwei Arten von Modernismus: den technikbesessenen und möchtegern-wissenschaftlichen Modernismus und einen ganz anders gearteten Modernismus der modernen Kunst (eines Picasso, Strawinsky, Joyce, T.S. Eliot). Während der erste sie abschreckt, begrüßen sie die Implikationen des zweiten. Die Collage wird dabei als Verfahren und Geisteshaltung des Architekten propagiert, indem das Vorhandene als Grundlage für die Weiterentwicklung der Stadt dienstbar gemacht wird. Diese Ausgabe ist durch ein neues Nachwort von Colin Rowe ergänzt.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783764356088
Publisher:	Birkhäuser
Publication date:	03/20/1997
Series:	Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur , #27
Edition description:	5., erw. Aufl.
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.28(d)
Language:	German
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Koetter was a former Dean of the Yale School of Architecture and co-founder of Koetter Kim & Associates.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Utopia: Decline and Fall?
After the Millennium
Crisis of the Object: Predicament of texture
Collision City ad the Politics of `Bricolage'
Collage City and the Reconquest of Time
Excursus
Notes
Index to text
Index to illustrations

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From the Publisher

"Coming upon this book in rather a skeptical state of mind, I must say I found it intriguing, enlightening, brilliant, witty, and exasperating as it pursued its thesis with a species of grammatical acrobatics that I can only call arresting.

This is a book about the ideologies of modern architecture, their philosophical origins, their manifestations, and the ways in which they are flawed. It is a book about architects who had and have conceptions about the ideal city, and it tries to reorient those conceptions from the utopia of a single vision to a more multivalent view of city form." Donald Appleyard APA Journal

Editorial Reviews

Coming upon this book in rather a skeptical state of mind, I must say I found it intriguing, enlightening, brilliant, witty, and exasperating as it pursued its thesis with a species of grammatical acrobatics that I can only call arresting. This is a book about the ideologies of modern architecture, their philosophical origins, their manifestations, and the ways in which they are flawed. It is a book about architects who had and have conceptions about the ideal city, and it tries to reorient those conceptions from the utopia of a single vision to a more multivalent view of city form.—Donald Appleyard, APA Journal—

From the Publisher

Coming upon this book in rather a skeptical state of mind, I must say I found it intriguing, enlightening, brilliant, witty, and exasperating as it pursued its thesis with a species of grammatical acrobatics that I can only call arresting. This is a book about the ideologies of modern architecture, their philosophical origins, their manifestations, and the ways in which they are flawed. It is a book about architects who had and have conceptions about the ideal city, and it tries to reorient those conceptions from the utopia of a single vision to a more multivalent view of city form.

—Donald Appleyard, APA Journal

Reviews

Coming upon this book in rather a skeptical state of mind, I must say I found it intriguing, enlightening, brilliant, witty, and exasperating as it pursued its thesis with a species of grammatical acrobatics that I can only call arresting. This is a book about the ideologies of modern architecture, their philosophical origins, their manifestations, and the ways in which they are flawed. It is a book about architects who had and have conceptions about the ideal city, and it tries to reorient those conceptions from the utopia of a single vision to a more multivalent view of city form.

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