Building in and out of place

• Autores: David Leatherbarrow
• Localización: Architectural design, ISSN 0003-8504, Nº. 2, 2015, págs. 24-29
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • To seize the opportunities that designing globally afford – albeit in a disorientated and displaced manner – or to continue practising at the small scale in an informed and sensitive way, is the predicament that most ambitious offices are confronted with today. Here David Leatherbarrow, Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, argues that there could be a third way that manifests itself in the land itself and a project's site. He suggests terrain ‘has the power to allow and to resist the dislocations we experience today, recalling what a location has been while indicating what it is becoming’.