Uncommon Ground
Subtitle: Architecture, Technology, and Topography
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: October 2, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780262122306
Subjects: Landscape art & architecture; Theory of architecture; Architecture And The Environment; Site Planning; Architecture; Criticism; History - Specific Styles; Landscape; Architecture / General; General; Planning; Architecture and technology; Building sites; Environmental aspects
Description: "Although both are central to architecture, siting and construction are often treated as separate domains. In Uncommon Ground, David Leatherbarrow illuminates their relationship, focusing on the years between 1930 and 1960, when utopian ideas about the role of technology in building gave way to an awareness of its disruptive impact on cities and culture.

He examines the work of three architects, Richard Neutra, Antonin Raymond, and Aris Konstantinidis, who practiced in the United States, Japan, and Greece respectively.".

"The conflict between technological progress and cultural continuity, Leatherbarrow claims, exists only in theory, not in the real world of architecture. He argues that the act of building is not a matter of restoring regional identity by re-creating familiar signs, but of incorporating construction into the process of topography's perpetual becoming."--BOOK JACKET.