"This book describes one hundred memorable places that have been important in the architectural career of the author, as a practitioner, teacher and writer. The illustrated essays provide insights from a variety of buildings and places on five continents: from different eras, from the everyday to the famous, from houses to public buildings, and from streets to cities. Through these short reflections, the reader is introduced to multiple ways of looking at the built world, and is encouraged to develop a deeper understanding of the sources of their own ideas about buildings and places. The focus is on how the experience of seeing places, in everyday life and in travels, can enrich people's understandings of the built world around them. With hundreds of beautiful photographs, supplemented by helpful diagrams and drawings, the book is organized and written in a way that is accessible to a wide audience and will interest everyone who is fascinated by architecture and cities, including teachers, practitioners and students"-- Provided by publisher.
This book describes one hundred memorable places that have been important in the architectural career of the author. The illustrated essays provide insights from a variety of buildings and places on five continents: from different eras, from the everyday to the famous, from houses to public buildings, and from streets to cities.
The hundred places of this book were visited over several decades, and played an important role in Davis’s career. Insights come from everyday places and famous landmarks: some beautiful, some the product of fine craftsmanship, some active places of gathering or commerce, some quiet places of contemplation. All stayed in the author’s memory, helping build the framework of his understandings of what is important to people in architecture and cities.
Organized chronologically, the book begins with the author’s encounters with buildings and places as a child in New York, and leads to his most recent architectural experiences as a seasoned professor, scholar and traveler. Each encounter is explained on two or three pages, that bring out the reasons for its significance and the lessons learned from it. Readers are encouraged to look for themselves and see how the places they encounter in their everyday lives and travels can enrich their own understandings about the built world that surrounds them.
Illustrated with beautiful photographs, drawings and diagrams, the book will interest people outside architecture who are fascinated by buildings and cities, as well as teachers, practitioners and students of architecture and cities
PART ONE 19571975 Four shops, St. Johns Place, Brooklyn Eastern
Parkway, Brooklyn Meadows, Catskill Mountains, New York House, Levittown,
Long Island Small towns near New York City Brooklyn Technical High School,
Brooklyn, New York Foundation Building, Cooper Union, New York Library, Mount
Angel Abbey, Oregon Orchard Lane, Berkeley, California London La Tourette
Monastery, Eveux-sur-lArbresle, France Farmhouse, Tunisia Roehampton housing
estate, London Arcaded streets, Bologna, Italy PART TWO 19801985 House,
Sierra Nevada, California Christian Science Church, Berkeley, California New
York Public Library West 47th Street, New York Mosque of Rustem Pasa,
Istanbul Outdoor book market, Istanbul Mount Athos, Greece Little Singer
Building, New York Victoria and India streets, Edinburgh, Scotland Byker
Wall, Newcastle upon Tyne, England House, open-air museum, Copenhagen
Washington Mews, New York A neighborhood in Cairo Kings Road House, West
Hollywood, California PART THREE 19861991 Knight Library, University of
Oregon, Eugene Red Fort, Delhi, India Houses and streets, Jaisalmer, India
Mausoleum of Mahmud Begada, Sarkhej, Ahmedabad, India Sarabhai House,
Ahmedabad, India Doges Palace, Venice Wilhelm Pelster house-barn, Franklin
County, Missouri Public housing, Vienna Karlsplatz Station, Vienna Church and
orphanage, Florence, Italy Church of San Prassede, Rome Cosmati pavements,
Roman churches, Italy Side of the road, India Village house, near Lviv,
Ukraine PART FOUR 19921999 Passage des Panoramas, Paris A slum, Madras (now
Chennai), India Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis, Athens Apartment terrace,
Athens Entsu-ji Temple, Kyoto Daishen-in, Myoshinji, Kyoto St. James
Piccadilly, London Apartment houses, New York Inner Shrine, Ise, Mie
Prefecture, Japan Tung Pattana, Chiang Mai, Thailand Al-Ghansour
Caravanserai, Cairo, Egypt Grand Central Terminal, New York Tinngarden,
Herfolge, Denmark Pati, Patan, Nepal Newari house, Patan, Nepal Trapezoidal
bricks, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal PART FIVE 20002004 Chapel of St. Ignatius,
Seattle India International Centre, New Delhi Court Gardeners House,
Potsdam, Germany Shop/houses in New York American Folk Art Museum, New York
Arnados, Tinos, Greece Canal houses, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Seventeenth-century house interiors, the Netherlands Town hall, Hilversum,
the Netherlands Artists houses and studios, Hammersmith, London Seabird
Island School, Agassiz, British Columbia, Canada Scottish Poetry Library,
Edinburgh PART SIX 20062014 Equitable Building, Portland St. Marks Church,
Bjorkhagen, Stockholm Cantonal library of Ticino, Lugano, Switzerland
Commercial extensions, London Stolpersteine (stumbling stones), Hamburg,
Germany Housing project, Lindenstrasse, Berlin Dunboyne Road housing, Camden,
London Gillett Square, Dalston, London Thermal baths, Vals, Switzerland
Cathedral, Chartres, France Piazza dei Signori, Vicenza, Italy Swimming pool,
Matosinhos, Portugal Sao Bento Train Station, Porto, Portugal PART SEVEN
20152024 Piazza della Madonna dei Monti, Rome Winkley Estate, Bethnal Green,
London Myyrmaki Church, Vantaa, Finland Town hall, Saynatsalo, Finland Three
spaces, Hvittrask, Kirkkonummi, Finland Dining room, Aalto house, Helsinki,
Finland Tripotamos, Tinos, Greece Everyman Theatre, Liverpool Worship Street
houses, London Silkweavers work spaces, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, India
Karappankadu, Tamil Nadu, India Castelvecchio, Verona Hedmark Museum, Hamar,
Norway Place du Tertre, Montmartre, Paris Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, New
York Experimental project, Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico Avenida
Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Howard Davis is Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of Oregon, where his specialty is issues of culture and place in buildings and cities. He is the author of The Culture of Building, Living Over the Store, and Working Cities, and the co-author, with Christopher Alexander and others, of The Production of Houses. Davis is a Distinguished Professor of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and winner of the Herman Award at the University of Oregon. His travels in over fifty countries are the basis for the writing and photography in this book.
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