Présentation de l'éditeur :
Contemporary urban development is increasingly characterized by a
reliance on diagrams to convey the rational, statistical point of view
of the professional urban planner. In his new book Urbanisms,
architect Steven Holl suggests that just as modern medicine has
recognized the power of the irrational psyche, urban planners need to
realize that the experiential power of cities cannot be completely
rationalized and must be studied subjectively. With a selection of
urban and architectural projects from his thirty year practice, Holl
stretches urban planning into the domain of uncertainty. Analyzing a
wide range of matters from everyday experiences to spatial data, Urbanisms examines how perception and the senses are intertwined with the material, space, and light of urban form.
Grouped
under themes like Fragments, Porosity, Insertions, Precious, and
Fusion, Holl explores concepts such as creating cities from pieces or
edges; moving in and out of the spaces between a built environment;
inserting architectural elements into complex urban situations;
constructing small-scale mini-urbanisms; and preserving natural
landscapes.
Urbanisms presents design solutions for diverse
locations including the School of Art and Art History at the University
of Iowa in Iowa City; Green Urban Laboratory in Nanning, China;
Toolenburg Zuid Schipol, The Netherlands; Fondation Pinault Ile Seguin
in Paris, France; and the Master Plan for M.I.T.'s Vassar Street in
Cambridge, Massachusetts. A comprehensive exploration of each project
illustrates this much-celebrated and influential architect's
perspective on large-scale planning.
Steven
Holl founded Steven Holl Architects in New York in 1976. SHA is a
design-oriented office, with a staff of 35. The firm has been
recognized internationally with numerous awards, publications and
exhibitions for quality and excellence in design.
Steven Holl
is a tenured faculty member at Columbia University where he has taught
since 1981. Other professional affiliations include NCARB, American
Institute of Architects, American Association of Museums, Honorary
Whitney Circle, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the International
Honorary Committee, Viipuri Library, Alvar Aalto Foundation.
In
July 2001 Time Magazine named Steven Holl as America's Best Architect,
for "buildings that satisfy the spirit as well as the eye." Holl was
honored by the Smithsonian Institution with the 2002 Cooper Hewitt
National Design Award in Architecture.
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