Smithson: Ordinariness & Light pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載2025

想要找書就要到 小美書屋

立刻按 ctrl+D收藏本頁

你會得到大驚喜!!

Until recently the ideas of Alison and Peter Smithson have been known mainly to those professionally involved in architecture and urban design. This is so because they have presented their ideas usually in project form, accompanied by elliptical texts designed to prevent the building up of rigid thought patterns in the minds of those studying them."Ordinariness and Light, " by contrast, is an extended exploration of their theories and work over the past seventeen years, in which not only their aesthetic but also their political and emotional concerns are made plain. The book brings together a previously unpublished long text of 1952-53, "Urban Re-identification," and a sequence of later essays and statements. All this material has been revised for the present volume, and provided with a linking commentary.The general theme is "the invention of an architecture structured by notions of association." The authors argue that the form of the city and the town must correspond to the human needs of the present; looser knit than in the past, even the quite recent past; more open and changing. And for city and town to correspond to this pattern of society there must be better systems of physical communication, and new form-concepts through which society can recognize and realize its new self.The arguments, examples, and illustrations in the book show how a very small shift in our way of looking at the ordinary things that go to make up cities and towns could restore to them their rich classic connotations. Houses would once more feel like places of adventure, as well as security; roads would be made to give a sense of cohesion and connection, as well as of release. For the Smithsons, to sense an "ordering" in things is to feel liberated and free to use them. "Ordinariness and Light" will enable all who are exercised about the deterioration of urban life to share their dream of cities that can breathe. It may help, perhaps, to generate in society at large that kind of committed participation that their notion of "ordering" implies.

Preface
URBAN RE-IDENTIFICATION
1. The problem
2. The idea
3. Human associations
4. Communications and dispositions
5. The nature of home; its equipment and furniture
6. The Great Society
7. The stuff and decoration of the urban scene
8. Realisation: cost, legislation, versus freams
ESSAYS ON URBAN THEORY
9. The built world; Urban re-identification
10. Caravan: embryo appliance house? Cluster patterns
11. An alternative to the Garden City idea
12. Cluster City: a new shape for the community
13. Letter to America
14. Mobility
15. Aesthetics of change
16. Scatter
17. The function of architecture in cultures-in-change
18. Fix: permanence and transience
19. Social foci and social space
Appendix: Robin Hood Lane
Source-list of illustrations
Index
· · · · · · (收起)