Steiner Henriette - PHENOMENOLOGIES OF THE CITY : studies in the history and philosophy of architecture

PHENOMENOLOGIES OF THE CITY

Ashgate Studies in Architecture Series

SERIES EDITOR: EAMONN CANNIFFE, MANCHESTER SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE,
MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, UK

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Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture

Edited by

Henriette Steiner

and

Maximilian Sternberg

ASHGATE

Henriette Steiner and Maximilian Sternberg 2015

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Steiner, Henriette, 1980- author.

Phenomenologies of the city : studies in the history and philosophy of architecture / By Henriette Steiner and Maximilian Sternberg.

pages cm. -- (Ashgate studies in architecture)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-5479-3 (hbk) -- ISBN 978-1-4094-5480-9 (ebook) -

ISBN 978-1-4724-0710-8 (epub) 1. Architecture--Philosophy. 2. City planning-

Philosophy. I. Sternberg, Maximilian, 1979- author. II. Title.

NA2500.S75 2015

720.1--dc23

2014039127

ISBN 978 1 4094 5479 3 (hbk)

ISBN 978 1 4094 5480 9 (ebk-PDF)

ISBN 978 1 4724 0710 8 (ebk-ePUB)

Introduction
Henriette Steiner and Maximilian Sternberg

Peter Carl

Gil P. Klein

Maximilian Sternberg

Henriette Steiner

David Leatherbarrow

Amy Catania Kulper

Robert Ferguson

Mari Hvattum

Dalibor Vesely

Alberto Prez-Gmez

Gabriele Bryant

Dagmar Motycka Weston

Wendy Pullan

Gabriela witek

Carolyn Steel

Matthew Barac

1 Convivimus Ergo Sumus

2 Squaring the City: Between Roman and Rabbinic Urban Geometry

3 Medieval Moderns? Cistercians and the City

4 The Proximity of Difference and the Three Cities of Copenhagen

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5 Atmospheric Conditions

6 Art Nouveau Gardens of the Mind: Bell Jars, Hothouses, and Winter Gardens Preserving Immanent Natures

7 Burning the Grove: From the Celestial Garden to the Picturesque Landscape in Baroque England

8 The Garden and the City: Fragmented Dreams of Totality

9 Between Architecture and the City

10 Early Debates in Modern Architectural Education: Between Instrumentality and Historical Phronesis

11 Gothic of the Murdered God: From the Crystal Creed to the Spirit of Abstraction in Modern German Architecture

12 Corporeal Spatiality and the Restorative Fragment in Early Twentieth-Century Art and Architecture

13 Agon in Urban Conflict: Some Possibilities

14 A Fragment in the City: The Behind the Iron Gate Housing Estate

15 The Phenomenology of Food

16 Changing Places: Navigating Urbanity in the Global South

Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders and to obtain their permission for the use of copyright material. The editors apologise for any errors or omissions in the above list and would be grateful for notification of any corrections that should be incorporated in future reprints or editions of this book.

Henriette Steiner is Associate Professor at the Section for Landscape Architecture and Planning at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. She graduated with a PhD from the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge in 2008, after which she worked for five years as a Research Associate at the Department of Architecture at the ETH Zurich in Switzerland. She is author of The Emergence of a Modern City: Golden Age Copenhagen 18001850 (Ashgate, 2014), and co-editor of several books including Memory Culture and the Contemporary City: Building Sites (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and Invisibility Studies Surveillance, Transparency and the Hidden in Contemporary Culture (Peter Lang, 2015).

Maximilian Sternberg is University Lecturer in the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge. He holds a BA in History from Kings College London and gained his MPhil and PhD in the History and Philosophy of Architecture from Cambridge. He is the author of Cistercian Architecture and Medieval Society (Brill, 2013), and co-author of the Struggle for Jerusalems Holy Places (Routledge, 2013). He is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Urban Conflicts Research (www.urbanconflicts.arct.cam.ac.uk) and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Matthew Barac, Senior Lecturer at London South Bank University, has a professional background in architecture, including several years in private practice in South Africa. His PhD from Cambridge won both the RIBA Presidents Award for Research (2007) and the International Bauhaus Award (2004). His current research explores the spatial order of informal urbanity with a focus on African cities. As well as contributing to academic journals and books, he regularly writes for mainstream publications, edits the digital