Architecture as the Art of Crisis. Towards Urban Resilience.
Folio| N° d'inventaire | 22382 |
| Format | 12 x 17.5 |
| Détails | 138 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Gollion, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782884744799 |
A topical issue. Cities are expanding and becoming more complex, leading to increasing exposure to hazards and recurring crises. Resilience is now presented as the quality urban environments need to overcome them. However, dealing with the unexpected, it can hardly rely on calculations and forecasts. It requires intuition and know-how that are more those of an art than a science. Since it cannot be fully planned, it is deployed above all at times of crisis, which thus reconnects with its etymological meaning, that of choice leading to a resolution. Starting from the theory derived from ecology, this book proposes to explore the possibility of urban resilience approached as an art of crisis, and to explore its repercussions on the perception, theorization, and design of architecture.
A topical issue. Cities are expanding and becoming more complex, leading to increasing exposure to hazards and recurring crises. Resilience is now presented as the quality urban environments need to overcome them. However, dealing with the unexpected, it can hardly rely on calculations and forecasts. It requires intuition and know-how that are more those of an art than a science. Since it cannot be fully planned, it is deployed above all at times of crisis, which thus reconnects with its etymological meaning, that of choice leading to a resolution. Starting from the theory derived from ecology, this book proposes to explore the possibility of urban resilience approached as an art of crisis, and to explore its repercussions on the perception, theorization, and design of architecture.