Every morning the world's major cities see the influx of millions of people, and every evening the same cities see an exodus. This book examines the impact of movement in the city, describing urban environments not in terms of static structures such as buildings and roads, but in terms of the movement of people, cars, ideas and money. It takes a visual approach to the topic: in a series of specially commissioned projects, photographers Martyn Rose and Takashi Homma and artists Langlands & Bell and Nathan Coley explore the extraordinary breathing phenomenon. Architectural scholars such as Mark Cousins and the architecture practice Foreign Office and philosopher, Simon Glendinning, debate the possibilities which emerge. In collaboration with August, London.
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Although it's not consistently successful, this book contains many thought-provoking essays and photographic studies, all of which acknowledge the growing interest in the way cities work. It's a confusing book because it mixes ideas from artists, architects, philosophers and geographers, so the changes of pace are often hard to take. Many of the artists make work which is rather allusive and oblique, although I found nearly all of the art projects fascinating. Overall it's one of the better, and more accessible introductions to ideas which have been developed by philosophers such as Paul Virilio and Gilles Deleuze. If you want to know what they are about, read this book first.
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In Breathing Cities, projects from various disciplines are presented which closely examine the nature of urban flux. The British architect, Richard Rogers, remarks on the topic that "the buildings of the future will be less immobile than the temple of the past and more like moving, thinking, organic robots." Archigram as well also remarked once that "When it rains in Oxford Street, the architecture is no more significant than the rain." The work of various architects and artists is compiled under the headings "People","Goods", "Geography", "Information" and "Ideologies". The photographers Martyn Rose und Takashi Homma and the artists Langlands & Bell und Nathan Coley use the examples of London, Berlin and Tokyo to present their approach to "breathing cities". The architectural group "Foreign Office", the architect Zaha Hadid, the architectural historian Mark Cousins and the philosopher Simon Glendinning as well as other contributors reflect on the phenomenon of architecture in movement, each from their own particular point of view. In this highly valuable book, it is not the lifeless 'nice' side of the city which is focused on but the city as a living organ with all its "processes of digestion and excretion." Read more in a-matter.
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This review is from: Breathing Cities: the Architecture of Movement (Paperback)
In Breathing Cities, projects from various disciplines are presented which closely examine the nature of urban flux. The British architect, Richard Rogers, remarks on the topic that "the buildings of the future will be less immobile than the temple of the past and more like moving, thinking, organic robots." Archigram as well also remarked once that "When it rains in Oxford Street, the architecture is no more significant than the rain." The work of various architects and artists is compiled under the headings "People","Goods", "Geography", "Information" and "Ideologies". The photographers Martyn Rose und Takashi Homma and the artists Langlands & Bell und Nathan Coley use the examples of London, Berlin and Tokyo to present their approach to "breathing cities". The architectural group "Foreign Office", the architect Zaha Hadid, the architectural historian Mark Cousins and the philosopher Simon Glendinning as well as other contributors reflect on the phenomenon of architecture in movement, each from their own particular point of view. In this highly valuable book, it is not the lifeless 'nice' side of the city which is focused on but the city as a living organ with all its "processes of digestion and excretion." Read more in a-matter.
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Every city-dweller is familiar with the experience of inching forwards in an interminable traffic jam, or waiting three-quarters of an hour for a bus-of all the things that infuriate people about living in a European city, among the highest-ranking must be congestion. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
zoon politikon, virtual city, symbolic economy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Mexico City, Los Angeles, Tate Thames Dig, New Covent Garden, Stock Exchange, City of London, Performance System, Fresh Kills, Rem Koolhaas, United States, San Francisco, Sharon Zukin, Buenos Aires, Forensic Unit Job, Manuel Castells, Paul Virilio, Professor Pye Client, Soviet Union, Staten Island, The Economist, The Edge of the Millennium, West Berlin, Whitney Library of Design New!
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Every city-dweller is familiar with the experience of inching forwards in an interminable traffic jam, or waiting three-quarters of an hour for a bus-of all the things that infuriate people about living in a European city, among the highest-ranking must be congestion. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
zoon politikon, virtual city, symbolic economy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Mexico City, Los Angeles, Tate Thames Dig, New Covent Garden, Stock Exchange, City of London, Performance System, Fresh Kills, Rem Koolhaas, United States, San Francisco, Sharon Zukin, Buenos Aires, Forensic Unit Job, Manuel Castells, Paul Virilio, Professor Pye Client, Soviet Union, Staten Island, The Economist, The Edge of the Millennium, West Berlin, Whitney Library of Design New!
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- Radiant City by Le Corbusier in Front Matter, and page 101
- War and Peace in the Global Village by Marshall McLuhan on page 96
- Cities on the Move by Hau Hanru in Back Matter
- The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy by Simon Glendinning in Back Matter
- Margins of Philosophy by Jacques Derrida on page 117
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- In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World by John Thackara in Back Matter
- Integral Urbanism by Nan Ellin in Back Matter
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