The Continuous City: Fourteen Essays on Architecture and Urbanization

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This book gathers writings by Swedish American architect Lars Lerup, during which he sharply observes and analyzes the urban environment around him, then applies the ones findings to develop innovative theories concerning the up to date city. Even though the fourteen essays within the book were written as standalone pieces, together they cohere into a larger project that surveys Lerup’s occupied with identity, monumentality, and the connection between nature and culture. He considers influential up to date landscape designer Roberto Burle Marx, the “dancing floors” of Rem Koolhaas’s Seattle Central Library, Herzog & de Meuron’s 1111 Lincoln Road project in Miami Beach, the nature of urban icons like Coop Himmelb(l)au’s Dalian International Conference Center, and a lot more. 
 

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