Riverine

Name: Riverine
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138681781
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Architecture and Rivers

Summary

Riverine explores the vital relationship between riverscapes and urban development throughout history. This collection examines how rivers have shaped the cultural, architectural, and ecological landscapes of cities from Early Modern Italy to the Bengal Delta. Through diverse case studies, it reveals how waterways have served as the lifeblood of human settlements, evolving into ritualised spaces integral to urban identity and planning.
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Ideal for readers interested in urban planning, architecture, cultural history, and environmental studies, as well as professionals and students exploring the interaction between human settlements and natural waterways.

Exploring the relationship between architecture and rivers, the book examines the interface between terrain and water through the techniques and cultures of landscape, urban, architectural and material history and design.

Description

Riverscapes are the main arteries of the world’s largest cities and have, for millennia, been the lifeblood of the urban communities that have developed around them. These human settlements—given life through the space of the local waterscape—soon developed into ritualised spaces that sought to harness the dynamism of the watercourse and create the local architectural landscape.

Theorised via a sophisticated understanding of history, space, culture, and ecology, this collection of wonderful and deliberately wide-ranging case studies, from Early Modern Italy to the contemporary Bengal Delta, investigates the culture of human interaction with rivers and the nature of urban topography.

Riverine explores the ways in which architecture and urban planning have imbued cultural landscapes with ritual and structural meaning.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138681781

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 November 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 27 Line drawings, black and white; 80 Halftones, black and white; 107 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Gerald Adler
Edited by Manolo Guerci

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 453g

Pages: 236

Collections

Arts & Culture Education & Reference Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Gerald Adler is a Professor and Deputy Head at the Kent School of Architecture (KSA), University of Kent, UK, which he helped to found in 2005. His PhD was on the German ‘Reform’ architect Heinrich Tessenow, and he has written on European twentieth-century topics. He is an active member of CREAte, the University of Kent’s Centre for Research in European Architecture. Adler began his career in practice, working in London, Tokyo, Winchester, Stuttgart and Vienna, and currently directs the MA in Architecture and Urban Design at KSA.

Manolo Guerci is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of Graduate Studies at the Kent School of Architecture, University of Kent, UK. His research concentrates on early-modern European palaces, but he has also looked at issues related to the conservation of historic buildings, traditional Japanese architecture, and post-war social housing estates, on all of which he has published widely. Educated in Rome, London, Paris, and Cambridge, he began working in France for the 'Monuments Historiques' agency, while he has previously taught at the University of Cambridge, UK.