PIECES URBAINES / NY FRANSK BYSCENOGRAFI. Urban Fragments New French Urban Scenography

Author: Skousbøll, Karin
Country: Denmark
Language: Danish/English
Year Published: 2002
No. of pages: 344
Illustrations: 57 Color Illustrations. 181 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 9”x 8”
Weight: 3.00
ISBN: 8774072382
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Bios.
Code: 5650

Price: $95.00

The author has followed the development of French architecture since the legendary rebellion in Paris in May 1968. Twenty-one years later an urban planning strategy emerged in parallel with the “les grands projects” which was called the “pieces urbaines” method, it welcomes the dynamism and natural fragmentation of the city as an alternative to total solutions. Coupled with flexibility and openness to diversity, unity becomes the goal of a process fuelled by creative challenge, rather than simplistic problem solving. The author draws on the works of 4 well-known architects to illustrate the method: Henri Ciriani, Henri Gaudin, Jean-Pieerre Buffi and Christian de Portzamparc, all distinctive personalities in the the theory and practice of architecture.