A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
This chapter begins with the marking of the horizon as a means of communicating with its eternal presence. Through historical time, the underlying urge has metamorphosed into the representation of the city and its skyline in a confusion of individual and collective representation. Alongside the commonality of language comes trade, and during the relatively stable Early Middle Ages new settlements emerged responsively. In creating the cluster of tall buildings, the city aldermen courted the displeasure of London Boroughs, English Heritage and, more generally, conservative forces led by the Prince of Wales and international bodies such as UNESCO. Lina Bo Bardi's Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) belongs to a small group of outstanding buildings that evolved in the aftermath of the Second World War. The other parallel exemplars are Louis Kahn's Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin (1968).
This chapter begins with the marking of the horizon as a means of communicating with its eternal presence. Through historical time, the underlying urge has metamorphosed into the representation of the city and its skyline in a confusion of individual and collective representation. Alongside the commonality of language comes trade, and during the relatively stable Early Middle Ages new settlements emerged responsively. In creating the cluster of tall buildings, the city aldermen courted the displeasure of London Boroughs, English Heritage and, more generally, conservative forces led by the Prince of Wales and international bodies such as UNESCO. Lina Bo Bardi's Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) belongs to a small group of outstanding buildings that evolved in the aftermath of the Second World War. The other parallel exemplars are Louis Kahn's Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin (1968).
Horizon
Parry, Eric (editor)
AD Primers Context ; 48-77
2015-04-24
30 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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