City of Play

An Architectural and Urban History of Recreation and Leisure

AvRodrigo Pérez de Arce

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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City of Play shows how play is built into the very fabric of the modern city. From playgrounds to theme parks, skittle alleys to swimming pools, to the countless uncontrolled spaces which the urban habitat affords – play is by no means just a childhood affair. A myriad essentially unproductive playful pursuits have, through time, modelled the modern city and landscape. Architect and scholar Rodrigo Pérez de Arce’s erudite, original, and often surprising study explores a curiously neglected dimension of architectural design and practice: ludic space. It is an architectural history of the playground – from the hippodrome to the Situationist city – of space released from productive ends in the pursuit of leisure. But this is more than just a book about how architecture has incorporated play into its spaces and structures, it is a history of the modern city itself. The ludic imagination impregnated modernist ideals, and what begins with the playground ends with a re-consideration of the whole sweep of the modern movement through the filter of leisure and play.Because play is such a basic or fundamental human experience, the book re-grounds the architect’s concerns with those of non-architects – and not only those of adults but also of children. It seeks to give everyone – architects and other ordinary city-dwellers alike – a better understanding about what is at stake in the making of the public spaces of our cities.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-05-31
Mått:156 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt:518 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350032163

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Rodrigo Pérez de Arce is a Chilean architect. He is Associate Professor in Architecture at the Catholic University of Chile, and has taught as Visiting Professor at Harvard GSD, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Architectural Association, UK, among other universities.

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INTRODUCTIONElusive Imprints PART ONE1. About the FieldSpheres of action Field and stage The Canon The primeval Field and square Field, skin and precincts 2. Formal and Relational TraitsScale Topology Topography Symmetry Linear Perspective The informal and the formless 3. Material AttributesThe Lawn Sand and Snow Water 4. Locational AttributesOrientationAdaptations Couplings and mosaics The unofficial Site specific play and the genius lociPark and fair PART TWO1. Players / The AthleteCells and arenas Bucolic deportments2. The ChildThe sky The street Anywhere Tumuli Displacements Future imperfect Stillness and the miniatureOblique rapports Return to order 3. The CitizenThe return of Homo LudensPaideia´s revengeCONCLUSIONFutile PursuitsBibliographyIndex