Architecture: Choice Or FateLeon Krier is one of the most provocative architectural critics of this century who has consistently questioned the wisdom of the principles of the modem movement in both architecture and urban planning. As he forcefully reminds us, architecture is no longer the domain of architects alone. He explains the alternative options in clear language and clarifies them with incisive drawings. This polemic is essential reading for anyone concerned with the state and direction of architecture and urban planning today. It is an essential tool in the art of building cities, an art that we have lost. Winner of the 1997 silver medal of the Academie francaise. |
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Contents
Section 1 | 29 |
Section 2 | 33 |
Section 3 | 36 |
Section 4 | 41 |
Section 5 | 45 |
Section 6 | 59 |
Section 7 | 60 |
Section 8 | 61 |
Section 15 | 104 |
Section 16 | 115 |
Section 17 | 126 |
Section 18 | 127 |
Section 19 | 135 |
Section 20 | 141 |
Section 21 | 148 |
Section 22 | 159 |
Section 9 | 76 |
Section 10 | 77 |
Section 11 | 87 |
Section 12 | 89 |
Section 13 | 96 |
Section 14 | 102 |
Section 23 | 163 |
Section 24 | 173 |
Section 25 | 183 |
Section 26 | 186 |
Section 27 | 189 |
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aesthetic arbitrary archi architects ARCHITECTURAL OBJECT architecture and urbanism artistic autonomous beautiful BELVEDERE borough building types built capacity CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE central square character Charter of Venice choice civic civilisation classical Classical architecture coherent composition concepts confusion conservation construction countryside crafts create democracy democratic density Docomomo DORSET ecological expression floors functional zoning gardens geometric goal hall historic centres historicism human individual industrial industrialisation innovation kitsch know-how LEON KRIER limited logic LUXEMBOURG LUXEMBOURG CITY masterplan materials means modernism modernist monumental motorway nature neo-modernist organised parks pavilions plot plot-ratios plurality political polycentric POUNDBURY principles public spaces reconstruction redevelopment represents residential restoration result skyline STREET PATTERN streets and squares structure style suburban suburbs symbolic technical tectonic tecture TEGEL THERMAE tower towns traditional architecture traditional buildings traditional culture transformation true typological typological inventory uniformity urban block urban planning urban quarter URBANISATION utilitarian villages vision WASHINGTON D.C.
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| Title | Architecture: Choice Or Fate Architectural Documents Series |
| Author | Léon Krier |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Papadakis Publisher, 1998 |
| ISBN | 1901092038, 9781901092035 |
| Length | 205 pages |
| Subjects | › Architecture / Criticism |
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