However, the professional reality exists in two different spheres. In the early decades of the last century urban design and planning separated from architecture and increasingly the design of buildings became one specialty and the design of cities another. I considered this.... RED
Vishaan Chakrabarti, The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy (September 24, 2024), Princeton Press.
Vishan Chakrabarti wrote this book in the time of the pandemic which he describes as "space and time ruptured". He diagnoses humanity as "uprooted" and attributes the "fractious condition" to climate change, the pandemic and the ever increasing divide between rural and urban. With this he hits a nerve. His remedy is
connectedness and joy which he calls a basic human need.
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Chakrabarti's latest book will be available in
bookstore in September 2024 |
The title of popular architect Vishaan Chakrabarti's new book points to one particular connection, the one between Architecture and Urbanity as a tool to address the treacherous human condition. On the face of it, the nexus seems obvious, cities are an agglomeration of buildings. "We believe architecture and urbanism are inextricably linked [...]buildings intensify cities and cities permeate buildings" he confirms.
However, the professional reality exists in two different spheres. In the early decades of the last century urban design and planning separated from architecture and increasingly the design of buildings became one specialty and the design of cities another. I considered this...
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