A focus I saw in Rossi’s writing was how architecture can gain value over time. […]
Week 5: Aldo Rossi
Rossi started and finished out his introduction to the American edition of “The Architecture of […]
Week 5
Architecture, as a composition of structure and art works, Rossi describes the city as an […]
The City 3 of 3
In architecture, it is best to study the city of its construction, planning and […]
9/28 Urban Artifacts and Memory
Aldo Rossi emphasizes, “The city grows upon itself; it acquires a consciousness and memory” where […]
Week 4
In Utopia: Decline and Fall I was really fascinated by the concept of Classical Utopia […]
Week 4: Collage City
It would be fair to say that Rowe and Koetter’s Collage City is beyond my […]
Week 4: Private vs Public
In all honesty, I wasn’t fully following Rowe and Koetter’s argument on the hedgehog vs […]
Collage City
In the Collage City, Rose and Koetter emphasize how modern architecture is initially approached or […]
Week 4
Overall looking at the readings the thing that I found most interesting was the multiple […]
Post 4: The City (part 2 of 3)
The chapter, “The Collision City” from the book, Collage City, by Colin Rowe and Fred […]
Week 4 HW Rowe, Koetter
In these excerpts from Rowe and Koetter’s ‘Collage City’, Rowe and Koetter present a cynical […]
Utopia: Decline and Fall
For the most part, these readings were particularly hard to understand but the gist of […]
Week 4: Judgment on the Modern City
While I didn’t comprehend much of what Rowe and Koetter were explaining through their chapters […]
9/21 Noble Savage
The idea of the Noble Savage is ridiculous. In the attempt to have a ‘control’ […]
Week 4
In the article, the author mainly talked about his opposite idea from the general Utopia […]
Week 4: Collage City
To be honest, in comparison to past weeks’ readings I struggled a little more with […]
The Racist Idea of the Noble Savage
I decided to start writing my response halfway through Collage City rather than after completing […]
The City 2 of 3
Throughout the development of cities, architects imagine their perspective as the ideal city. Modern Architects […]
Robert Moses
The clips demonstrated a side of architectural planning that disregards the way of life in […]
Week 3: Jane Jacobs
What I would really like to title this, but seemed too large for the margins […]
Week 3: New Perspectives on Architecture
The books this week were difficult to compare to each other due to their difference […]
Week 3
Something that I noticed in “Pattern Language” and “the Image of the City”. these two […]
Week 2: Jacobs v. Moses
Describing her book as an attack multiple times, one can straight away from “The Death […]
Architectural Tunnel Vision
The Jane Jacobs reading and subsequent videos provided valuable insight between the struggles of urban […]
Post 3: The City (part 1 of 3)
My instincts regarding the analysis of each reading so far rely heavily on the practicality […]
Week 3: Grids and Landmarks
When travelling to cities I have always thought how much easier it would be to […]
Jacobs/Alexander
Jane Jacobs, civil activist. Citizen Jane is a riveting documentary regarding how bottom up, grassroots […]