Steen Eiler Rasmussen
Today's bustling tourism has proved itself a double-edged sword: on the one hand it acquaints great numbers of people with cities and sights they might otherwise have missed; on the other it focuses on individual landmarks that the city as a whole is obscured and confused. Steen Eiler Rasmussen concentrates here on the town as a unity, as a whole composed of buildings and places.,Most of the town plans are scaled to 1:20,000 for easy over-all comparison; several famous places are reduced to 1:2000 for closer comparison. The buildings are for the most part presented in three views: the first, ,en face,: then the same view, minus the faï¿½ade; and finally a top view, as if the upper stories had been removed. The result is a picture not of static faï¿½ade and monument but of rooms and houses and towns where people live.
Architecture,Reference,History,Nonfiction,Cities,Urbanism
Towns and Buildings