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Riverine: Architecture and Rivers

Riverine: Architecture and Rivers

by Gerald Adler (Editor), Manolo Guerci (Editor)

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    Hardcover 2018

    $144.16
Synopsis

Riverscapes are the main arteries of the world's largest cities, and have, for millennia, been the lifeblood of the urban communities that have developed around them. These human settlements - given life through the space of the local waterscape - soon developed into ritualised spaces that sought to harness the dynamism of the watercourse and create the local architectural landscape.

Theorised via a sophisticated understanding of history, space, culture, and ecology, this collection of wonderful and deliberately wide-ranging case studies, from Early Modern Italy to the contemporary Bengal Delta, investigate the culture of human interaction with rivers and the nature of urban topography. By emphasising the enthalpic nature of the hydrosphere, and the way in which architectural design narrativised these global traits, Riverine explores the ways in which urban planning doubles as a social relic of the rivers themselves and how these thoroughfares have imbued the cultural landscape with ritual and structural meaning.

$144.16

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 254
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 30 Oct 2018
ISBN 10: 113868175X
ISBN 13: 9781138681750

Author Bio
Gerald Adler is a Professor and Deputy Head at the Kent School of Architecture (KSA), University of Kent, UK, which he helped to found in 2005. His PhD was on the German `Reform' architect Heinrich Tessenow, and he has written on European twentieth-century topics. He is an active member of CREAte, the University of Kent's Centre for Research in European Architecture. Adler began his career in practice, working in London, Tokyo, Winchester, Stuttgart and Vienna, and currently directs the MA in Architecture and Urban Design at KSA. Manolo Guerci is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of Graduate Studies at the Kent School of Architecture, University of Kent, UK. He studied architecture at Roma Tre University, Italy, and University College London, UK; trained and worked on the restoration of historic buildings in France within the cadre of the Monuments Historiques; and completed a PhD in the Department of History of Art at University of Cambridge, UK, where he has also taught from 2005 to 2010. From 2006 to 2009 he was a Research Fellow and Graduate Tutor at St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art from 2009 to 2010.