From health to pleasure: the landscape of walking
2.2From Health to Pleasure The landscape of walking Jan Woudstra When the Englishman Richard Ford published A Handbook for Travellers in Spain (1845), he claimed that, ‘No Spaniard . ….
Pedestrians and traffic
2.8Pedestrians and Traffic Ben Hamilton-Baillie One False Move and You’re Dead! This alarmingly stark and simple message stands alongside a close-up of a teenager’s feet on the edge of a…
Soundscape and movement
2.4Soundscape and Movement Jian Kang This chapter investigates the role of acoustics in shaping the experience of movement in buildings and landscapes. Two case studies, one outdoor space and one…
Moving round the ring road
2.6Moving Round the Ring Road Stephen Walker Filmstrips Photographs of the Sheffield ring road taken by the author in 2011 Downwards we hurried fast,And entered with the road which we…
Diasporic experience and the need for topological methods
4.5Diasporic Experience and the Need for Topological Methods Nishat Awan Historically, architecture has struggled with how to represent movement, as it inevitably also encapsulates time, and architectural representation has traditionally…
The automated gardens of Lunéville: from the self-moving landscape to the circuit walk
3.6The Automated Gardens of LunéVille From the self-moving landscape to the circuit walk1 Renata Tyszczuk And it might have been yet improved by a thought taken from one of the…
Open design: thoughts on software and the representation of movement
4.6Open Design Thoughts on software and the representation of movement Mark Meagher As any student of architecture soon discovers, discussion of an architectural project necessitates some means of representation, all…
From models to movement? Reflections on some recent projects by Herzog & de Meuron
4.3From Models to Movement? Reflections on some recent projects by Herzog & de Meuron Cornelia Tapparelli Model-making has been a central aspect in the work of the Swiss architectural practice…
Gunnar Asplund: ‘pictures with marginal notes from the Gothenburg Art and Industry Exhibition’, 1923
1.6Gunnar Asplund: ‘Pictures with Marginal Notes from the Gothenburg Art and Industry Exhibition’, 19231 Translated by Eva Berndtsson and Peter Blundell Jones By 1923, Gunnar Asplund was already a leading…
Hans Scharoun and movement: the Kassel Project 1952
1.8Hans Scharoun and Movement The Kassel Project 1952 Translated by Peter Blundell Jones The Kassel Theatre project of 1952, designed in collaboration with leading landscape architect Hermann Mattern, was a…