ENGLISH

Towns & Buildings (Towns and Buildings)

By Rasmussen

Book information

Publisher
MIT Press
Year
1969
ISBN
0262680114, 9780262680110
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
25 MB (26354958 bytes)
Pages
212\110
Time added
2024-07-15 18:42:05

Description

Today's bustling tourism has proved itself a double-edged sword: on the one hand it acquaints great numbers of people with cities and sights they might otherwise have missed; on the other it focuses on individual landmarks that the city as a whole is obscured and confused. Steen Eiler Rasmussen concentrates here on the town as a unity, as a whole composed of buildings and places.Most of the town plans are scaled to 1:20,000 for easy over-all comparison; several famous places are reduced to 1:2000 for closer comparison. The buildings are for the most part presented in three views: the first, en face: then the same view, minus the façade; and finally a top view, as if the upper stories had been removed. The result is a picture not of static façade and monument but of rooms and houses and towns where people live.

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