After the City Lars Lerup,
Publisher: The MIT Press
ISBN: 0262621576
DDC: 720
Edition: Paperback; 2001-10-01
Summary:
The city's reign over our senses, our moods, our very ways of being
is outmoded. The suburban metropolis has superseded the city.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 the elite 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 architectural curriculum,
however, we must rethink the metropolis. And rethink the metropolis
is just what Lerup does. In an intellectually far-ranging yet
intensely personal manner, he moves from contemplation of the form
and philosophical implications of the Pantheon to a discussion of how
Levittown residents seek 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 exciting new frontier.
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