by Matthew Stadler
- Author(s)
- Matthew Stadler
- Publication
- Rotterdam : nai010 publishers, 2013
- Scope
- 324 Pages, illustrated, 19 cm.
- ISBN
- 9789064507496
In Deventer, the Netherlands, a routine real estate deal and demolition became the site of innovation and new intelligence in urban design. We lack a vocabulary for the hugely important middle ground: projects that are neither local nor global, neither temporary nor permanent, neither original (in the protean sense) nor strictly an act of preservation. Outmoded dichotomies - local/global, temporary/permanent, new/somehow-not - obscure the daily challenge of designing and building real architecture. Deventer tells the human story that drove these projects to their checkered ends, and connects them to broader changes in the professions as a first step toward finding a vocabulary for the new scale of change in architecture.
- Keywords
- urban transformation
- Location
- Cabinet 18 - 1: Stedelijke tranformatie
- Remarks
