Site Matters: Design Concepts, Histories, and Strategies

Site Matters: Design Concepts, Histories, and Strategies

<P>One of the trends in twentieth century architecture and planning has been to denigrate and ignore the site, or larger context (both physical and social), surrounding a building or set of buildings. </P> <P>Focussing on Le Corbusier's designs, <EM>Site Matters</EM> presents that first considered theory and vocabulary for the inevitable reaction against Modernism in planning, beginning in the 1960s and swelling through the 1980s as architects and planners alike developed a new appreciation of site, reincorporating the wider context into their plans.</P> <P>Theoretical essays and empirically grounded pieces combine to provide the language and theory of this re-emergence of site, looking at Le Corbusier's designs, contemporary suburbs, and the planning agendas involved at the World Trade Center site.</P> <P>Groundbreaking and innovative, <EM>Site Matters</EM> provides valuable theory and vocabulary for planners and architects.</P>