After the City
| Author/creator | Lerup, Lars Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | Reprint |
| Publication Info | Cambridge : MIT Press |
| Description | 208 p. ill 09.000 x 07.000 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Summary | Annotation The city's reign over our senses, our moods, our very ways of being is outmoded. Thesuburban metropolis has superseded the city. The new building materials are non-material:electricity, telephony, weather, time, and so forth. Consequently, according to Lars Lerup,architecture and architects must be rethought.Until now, architects have been trained to serve theelite few, as reflected in a belief in customization and the uniqueness of each project. Instead,Lerup holds, architectural educators should promote teamwork and the design of authorless objects,combined with an integration of design and practice. Before we can rethink the architecturalcurriculum, however, we must rethink the metropolis.And rethink the metropolis is just what Lerupdoes. In an intellectually far-ranging yet intensely personal manner, he moves from contemplation ofthe form and philosophical implications of the Pantheon to a discussion of how Levittown residentsseek and create community. The result is an exhilarating work with profound practical implications.Unlike the many who view suburbia with paranoid dismay, Lerup takes an optimistic view of the new,open metropolis -- for him not the site of unavoidable uniformity and mediocrity, but an excitingnew frontier. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780262621571 |
| ISBN | 0262621576 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780262621571 |
| Stock number | 0262621576 00015994 |
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