
Architecture as City
Saemangeum Island City
Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
1st Edition
Published on 27. August 2010
Book
Hardback
152 pages
978-3-99043-387-4 (ISBN)
Description
Florian Beigel was born in 1941 in Germany. Diploma in Architecture at Stuttgart University 1968, Master degree at University College in London 1969. As of 1970, own architecture office in London. Professor for Architecture and Director of the Architecture Research Unit at the Department for Architecture and Spatial Design, London Metropolitan University. Philip Christou was born in 1956 in Canada. Lives and works in the UK since 1980. Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Fine Art degrees University of Lethbridge, Alberta, and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada. Studied architecture at the Architectural Association, London. Research Fellow in the Architecture Research Unit, London Metropolitan University, working with Florian Beigel since1985.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Wien
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
150 farbige Abbildungen
150 col. ill.
Weight
844 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-99043-387-4 (9783990433874)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Florian Beigel was born in 1941 in Germany. Diploma in Architecture at Stuttgart University 1968, Master degree at University College in London 1969. As of 1970, own architecture office in London. Professor for Architecture and Director of the Architecture Research Unit at the Department for Architecture and Spatial Design, London Metropolitan University. Philip Christou was born in 1956 in Canada. Lives and works in the UK since 1980. Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Fine Art degrees University of Lethbridge, Alberta, and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada. Studied architecture at the Architectural Association, London. Research Fellow in the Architecture Research Unit, London Metropolitan University, working with Florian Beigel since1985.
Content
INTRODUCTION: Architecture as City; The Photographs of Kang Woon-gu; Saemangeum Island City - A City Close to Life; The Saemangeum Project.- DESIGN CONCEPTS: A Sense of Time; The Poetry of the Natural and the Artificial; Island Experience; A City of Civility; A City of Co-existence; A City Without Sprawl.- DESIGNING THE CITY: A Landscape Infrastructure of Islands; Island Making: A Sketch Book; City Structures; Locating Programmes Within the City Structures; City Magnets.- A CONVERSATION WITH FLORIAN BEIGEL AND PHILIP CHRISTOU - ELLIS WOODMAN.- Acknowledgements.