Practice

Stan Allen is a practicing architect and Dean at the School of Architecture, Princeton University. Responding to the complexity of the modern city in creative ways, Stan Allen has developed an extensive catalogue of urbanistic strategies, in particular looking at field theory, landscape architecture and ecology as models to revitalize the practices of urban design. In addition to design awards and competition prizes, he has been awarded Fellowships in Architecture from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts, a Design Arts Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Graham Foundation Grant, and a President's Citation from The Cooper Union.

• Introduction: Practice vs. Project Part 1: Drawings 1. Constructing with Lines: On Projection 2. Notations and Diagrams: Mapping the Intangible 3. Terminal Velocities: The Computer in the Design Studio Part 2: Buildings 4. Mies' Theater of Effects 5. The Guggenheim Refigured 6. Le Corbusier and Modernist Movement Part 3: Cities and Landscapes 7. Urbanisms in the Plural 8. The Thick 2-D: Mat-Building in the Contemporary City 9. From Object to Field: Field Conditions in Architecture and Urbanism