Another architectural portal no2self, recently posted about Siegfried Giedion's Architecture, You and Me in which he highlighted achievements in urban design from 1850. Mind you the book was published in 1958, so let's fill in the remaining.
consider this something to do whilst the votes are being tallied
1856-1867 The Public Squares of Paris - Alphonse Alphand
1857-1860 Central Park, New York - Frederick Law Olmsted
1882 The Linear City - Arturo Soria y Mata
1889 The Art of Building Cities - Camillo Sitte
1898 Garden Cities of Tomorrow - Ebenezer Howard
1901 The Industrial City - Tony Garnier
1901 Housing Legislation in Holland
1915 Cities in Evolution - Patrick Geddes
1920 Welwyn Garden City, England - Raymond Unwin
1922 Plan Voisin, Paris - Le Corbusier
1927 Weissenhof Housing Project, Stuttgart
1927 Roemerstadt, Frankfort - Ernst May
1928 Dammerstock Housing Project, Karlsruhe - Walter Gropius
1929 Siemenstadt, Berlin - Walter Gropius
1929 Radburn, New Jersey - Henry Wright and Clarence Stein
1929 The Neighbourhood Unit - Clarence Perry
1933 The “Charte D’Athenes” - CIAM 4
1934 Broadacre City - Frank Lloyd Wright
1935 La Ville Radieuse - Le Corbusier
1938 Culture of Cities - Lewis Mumford
1944 The Greater London Plan - Patrick Abercrombie
1945 Saint-Die, Vosges, France - Le Corbusier
1948 Harlow New Town, England - Frederick Gibberd
1948 Chimbote, Peru - P.L.Wiener and J.L.Sert
1951 Chandigargh, Punjab, India - Le Corbusier
1951 The Core of the City - CIAM 8
1952 Vallingby, Sweden - Sven Markelius
1953 Back Bay Center, Boston, Massachusetts - Walter Gropius and others
1956 Alexander Polder, Holland - R.Bakema and Group OPBOUW
1956 Southdale Shopping Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota - Victor Gruen
1956 Lafayette Park, Detroit, Michigan - Mies van der Rohe
1957 Brazilia, Brazil - Costa, Niemeyer, etc
I don't agree with most of this list but what the hell
off the bat the ones that come readily to mind are
1983 Parc de la Villette, Paris - Tschymi
1984 - 1991 Seaside - Duany, Plater-Zybec, etc
1996 Centennial Olympic Park - Georgia World Congress Center Authority
2000-2002 Yokohama International Port Terminal - Foriegn Office Architects
2005 EcoBoulevard, Madrid - Ecosistema Urbano
2004 - present The High Line, Manhattan, NYC - Field Operations & Diller Scofidio Renfro
Other than that, I'd even go as far as stressing the importance of the invention of the atrium for the development of urban planning - creating interior "urban plans". But who to give credit for that? Maybe John Portman?
the invention of the atrium? I take it you mean in that in a Post Modern sense, hermetically sealed walkways with pane glass above to look towards the sky. Atriums prior (and so called) have existed since Antiquity most notably in Roman architecture as the inner hall
maybe jon jerde is more appropriate, though i don't think his work is lasting, or influential, only a fad...
for the modern list since 1950's i think nan ellin does an awesome job of summarizing planning in her book postmodern urbanism. that takes us up to the millenium or close enough.
after that i don't know...
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Another architectural portal no2self, recently posted about Siegfried Giedion's Architecture, You and Me in which he highlighted achievements in urban design from 1850. Mind you the book was published in 1958, so let's fill in the remaining.
consider this something to do whilst the votes are being tallied
1856-1867 The Public Squares of Paris - Alphonse Alphand
1857-1860 Central Park, New York - Frederick Law Olmsted
1882 The Linear City - Arturo Soria y Mata
1889 The Art of Building Cities - Camillo Sitte
1898 Garden Cities of Tomorrow - Ebenezer Howard
1901 The Industrial City - Tony Garnier
1901 Housing Legislation in Holland
1915 Cities in Evolution - Patrick Geddes
1920 Welwyn Garden City, England - Raymond Unwin
1922 Plan Voisin, Paris - Le Corbusier
1927 Weissenhof Housing Project, Stuttgart
1927 Roemerstadt, Frankfort - Ernst May
1928 Dammerstock Housing Project, Karlsruhe - Walter Gropius
1929 Siemenstadt, Berlin - Walter Gropius
1929 Radburn, New Jersey - Henry Wright and Clarence Stein
1929 The Neighbourhood Unit - Clarence Perry
1933 The “Charte D’Athenes” - CIAM 4
1934 Broadacre City - Frank Lloyd Wright
1935 La Ville Radieuse - Le Corbusier
1938 Culture of Cities - Lewis Mumford
1944 The Greater London Plan - Patrick Abercrombie
1945 Saint-Die, Vosges, France - Le Corbusier
1948 Harlow New Town, England - Frederick Gibberd
1948 Chimbote, Peru - P.L.Wiener and J.L.Sert
1951 Chandigargh, Punjab, India - Le Corbusier
1951 The Core of the City - CIAM 8
1952 Vallingby, Sweden - Sven Markelius
1953 Back Bay Center, Boston, Massachusetts - Walter Gropius and others
1956 Alexander Polder, Holland - R.Bakema and Group OPBOUW
1956 Southdale Shopping Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota - Victor Gruen
1956 Lafayette Park, Detroit, Michigan - Mies van der Rohe
1957 Brazilia, Brazil - Costa, Niemeyer, etc
I don't agree with most of this list but what the hell
off the bat the ones that come readily to mind are
1983 Parc de la Villette, Paris - Tschymi
1984 - 1991 Seaside - Duany, Plater-Zybec, etc
1996 Centennial Olympic Park - Georgia World Congress Center Authority
2000-2002 Yokohama International Port Terminal - Foriegn Office Architects
2005 EcoBoulevard, Madrid - Ecosistema Urbano
2004 - present The High Line, Manhattan, NYC - Field Operations & Diller Scofidio Renfro
Can we throw in Millennium Park, setting (almost - it's adjacent) of Obama's acceptance speech? Year is, um, I'm guessing 2000, given the name!
Yona Friedman should definitely be in there, too.
Or are only "built" projects considered?
well the high line isn't built yet, but I think since most of the infrastructure already exists it is worth considering. Which work by Yona Friedman?
La Ville Spatiale...
Other than that, I'd even go as far as stressing the importance of the invention of the atrium for the development of urban planning - creating interior "urban plans". But who to give credit for that? Maybe John Portman?
the invention of the atrium? I take it you mean in that in a Post Modern sense, hermetically sealed walkways with pane glass above to look towards the sky. Atriums prior (and so called) have existed since Antiquity most notably in Roman architecture as the inner hall
commerce is going to kill us
maybe jon jerde is more appropriate, though i don't think his work is lasting, or influential, only a fad...
for the modern list since 1950's i think nan ellin does an awesome job of summarizing planning in her book postmodern urbanism. that takes us up to the millenium or close enough.
after that i don't know...
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