Ground-up City
Play as a design tool
auteurs Liane Lefaivre ; Döll - Atelier voor Bouwkunst ; interviews with Dan Graham ; Erwin Wurm ; Jerome Sans

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Author(s)

Liane Lefaivre, Döll - Atelier voor Bouwkunst, Dan Graham, Erwin Wurm, Jerome Sans

Publication

Rotterdam : 010 Publishers, 2007

Scope

128 Pages, illustrated, 24 cm.

ISBN

9789064506024

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This book maps the continuing history of an urban strategy for play in the city. Liane Lefaivre has developed a theoretical model for tackling playgrounds as an urban strategy. She starts with a historical overview of play and the ludic in art, architecture and urban design, focusing particularly on the post-war playgrounds realized in Amsterdam as joint ventures between Aldo van Eyck, Cornelis van Eesteren and Jakoba Mulder. A second layer in the book gives an inspirational and refreshing new look at play in a picture essay with a welter of reference images illustrating play as an urban phenomenon.

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Person as subject

Dan Graham, Erwin Wurm, Jerome Sans, Aldo van Eyck, Cornelis van Eesteren, Jakoba Mulder, ...[et al.]

Keywords

public space , play , architects

Location

Cabinet 17 - 3: Stad en Bewoners

Extra themes

Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;

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