The architecture of community /
Leon Krier ; edited by Dhiru A. Thadani + Peter J. Hetzel.
- xxiii, 459 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Revision and expansion of: Architecture.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Aspects of modernity -- Nature of the architectural object -- Critique of a modernist ideology -- Prospects for a new urbanism -- The polycentric city of urban communities -- Washington DC: An unfinished canvas -- The modernity of traditional architecture -- Universal usefulness of modern craft industry or the fourth industrial revolution -- The architectural tuning of settlements -- Drawing to reality -- Afterwords.
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Architecture and society. Architecture--Human factors. Architecture--Philosophy City planning--Philosophy