Architecture in Context
Subtitle: Fitting new buildings with old
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
Copyright date: 1980
Table of contents: label: Preface
title: 4; label: 1. Introduction
title: 5; label: How We Arrived at out Present Attitude
title: 6; label: A New Way of Seeing
title: 12; label: The Thread of Concern for Designing in Context
title: 13; label: Post-Modernism and Fitting New Architecture with Old
title: 15; label: The Purpose
title: 17; label: 2. Historical Examples of Successful Fit-Ins
title: 19; label: Old Buildings with Landmarks
title: 20; label: Old Buildings Next to Older Buildings
title: 28; label: Old Buildings with Older Neighborhood or Regional Styles
title: 32; label: Conclusion
title: 37; label: 3. New Buildings with Other New Buildings
title: 38; label: 4. The Modernist Point of View: Contrasting New with Old
title: 43; label: Contrast . . .
title: 45; label: . . . and the Link
title: 45; label: Less Successful Examples
title: 48; label: More Successful Examples
title: 59; label: 5. New Buildings with Nearby Buildings
title: 61; label: Less Successful Examples
title: 63; label: More Successful Examples
title: 74; label: 6. New Buildings with Neighborhood or Regional Styles
title: 78; label: Less Successful Examples
title: 78; label: More Successful Examples
title: 91; label: 7. New Buildings with Older Landmarks
title: 109; label: Less Successful Examples
title: 109; label: More Successful Examples
title: 120; label: 8. New Buildings with Small Buildings
title: 125; label: 9. Monuments
title: 137; label: 10. Conclusion
title: 138; label: Ego
title: 138; label: Do We Need Another “Style of Our Times”?
title: 139; label: Persisting Taboos Against Affinitive Seeing
title: 140; label: Post-Modernism and Fitting New with Old
title: 140; label: The Architect as Cheshire Cat
title: 141; label: Alternatives
title: 142; label: An Aid to Relearning How to Design in Context
title: 143; title: Appendix A; label: To the Architects: Some Common Questions About Designing in Context
title: 148; title: Appendix B; label: A Handbook for Non-Architects Who Are Concerned About Visual Continuity in Their Communities
title: 151; label: The Means
title: 151; label: Index
title: 157