Book presentation and discussion "Foundations of Urban Design" by Marcel Smets

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Beschreibung

In the frame of the international symposium Territorial Turn! the book "Foundations of Urban Design" by Prof. Emer. Marcel Smets – University of Leuven was presented and discussed with Klaus Klaas Loenhart, Institute for Architecture and Landscape LANDLAB ia&l, TU Graz and Andrea Jany, Regional Centre of Expertise Graz-Styria, University of Graz.

The book is structured into twenty-nine essays, each dedicated to a pair of urbanistic con­cepts. Discussing historical and contemporary, interpretive and designerly approaches to urbanity, the notions composing the 29 pairs relate dialectically, as theses-and-antitheses. However, the presented antagonisms are not in themselves in opposition, but rather com­plementary. Marcel Smets’ lexicon of fundamentals offers an operative conceptual framework for ur­ban design, a series of spatial elements, systems and approaches that become a starter tool-kit for the contemporary urbanist.


Zeitraum14 Sept. 2022
VeranstaltungstypSonstiges
OrtGraz, ÖsterreichAuf Karte anzeigen
BekanntheitsgradLokal