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Author: Professor Charles Rice (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:
Width: 15.40cm
, Height: 0.80cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.360kg
ISBN: 9781472581198
ISBN 10: 1472581199
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 25 February 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Charles Rice's study of the architecture of John Portman raises key questions about the quality of public space in modern cities where multi-use complexes with gleaming towers and soaring atriums remake the relationship between street, square and interior. Rice thus offers a timely analysis for developers and planners in today's international marketplace. Alice Friedman, Professor of Art, Wellesley College, USA Despite its wide-ranging influence, the work of the developer-architect John Portman has to date recieved little attention from scholars of architecture. Rice's study of Portman's paradigmatic interior urbanism addresses this lacuna, skilfully contextualising its emergence within the ideologies, institutions, politics and technologies of urban development in the USA in the 1960s and 70s. This is an important study for anyone seeking to understand the prehistory of our global urban present. Mark Dorrian, Forbes Chair in Architecture, University of Edinburgh, UK
Charles Rice's study of the architecture of John Portman raises key questions about the quality of public space in modern cities where multi-use complexes with gleaming towers and soaring atriums remake the relationship between street, square and interior. Rice thus offers a timely analysis for developers and planners in today's international marketplace. Alice Friedman, Professor of Art, Wellesley College
"Charles Rice's study of the architecture of John Portman raises key questions about the quality of public space in modern cities where multi-use complexes with gleaming towers and soaring atriums remake the relationship between street, square and interior. Rice thus offers a timely analysis for developers and planners in today's international marketplace. * Alice Friedman, Professor of Art, Wellesley College, USA * Despite its wide-ranging influence, the work of the developer-architect John Portman has to date recieved little attention from scholars of architecture. Rice's study of Portman's paradigmatic ""interior urbanism"" addresses this lacuna, skilfully contextualising its emergence within the ideologies, institutions, politics and technologies of urban development in the USA in the 1960s and 70s. This is an important study for anyone seeking to understand the prehistory of our global urban present. * Mark Dorrian, Forbes Chair in Architecture, University of Edinburgh, UK *"
Author Information
Charles Rice is Professor of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
