Lucius Burckhardt Writings. Rethinking Man-made Environments : : Politics, Landscape & Design / / ed. by Jesko Fezer, Martin Schmitz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Architecture, Design and Arts 2000 - 2014
• HerausgeberIn: Fezer, Jesko,; Schmitz, Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin : : Ambra Verlag, , [2016]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

Design for a democratic society was a matter of urgency in bombed-out postwar Europe. Swiss sociologist, journalist, professor and founding father of strollology Lucius Burckhardt (1925-2003) pioneered the interdisciplinary analysis of man-made environments, and thereby highlighted both the visible...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Content
• Preface: The Work of Lucius Burckhardt
• Urban Planning and Democracy (1957)
• Ulm Anno 5. The Curriculum of the Ulm School of Design (1960)
• Building—A Process with No Obligations to Heritage Preservation (1967)
• On the Value and Meaning of Urban Utopias (1968)
• From Design Academicism to the Treatment of Wicked Problems (1973)
• Who Plans the Planning? (1974)
• Family and Home—Two Adaptable Systems (1975)
• Urban Design and Its Significance for Residents (1975)
• Gardening—An Art and A Necessity (1977)
• Why Is Landscape Beautiful? (1979)
• On the Design of Everyday Life (1979)
• Design Is Invisible (1980)
• Dirt (1980)
• What Is Livability? On Quantifiable and Invisible Needs (1981)
• The Night Is Man-made (1989)
• Architecture—An Art or A Science? (1983)
• A Critique of the Art of Gardening (1983)
• Fake: The Real Thing (1987)
• Aesthetics and Ecology (1990)
• A Walk in Second Nature (1992)
• The Sermon (1994)
• Strollological Observations on Perception of the Environment and the Tasks Facing Our Generation (1996)
• Wasteland As Context. Is There Any Such Thing As The Postmodern Landscape? (1998)
• On Movement and Vantage Points— the Strollologist’s Experience (1999)
• Biography
• Bibliography
• Index