Literature offers valuable insights into how people experience, use and imagine places. In an accessible yet scientifically underpinned manner, Urban Literacy Reading and Writing Architecture offers new methods for ‘reading’ and ‘writing’ all sorts of places, from architecture to urban space.

The literary approach in Urban Literacy stems from criticism of a lack of attention for the above-mentioned aspects in the architectural and urban planning debate: experiencing, using and imagining. Urban Literacy. Reading and Writing Architecture brings together a variety of disciplines and theoretical approaches by means of three literary concepts: description, transcription and prescription. It translates them into the domain of architecture and urban planning, among other things through analyses of the work of Steven Holl, Bernard Tschumi and Rem Koolhaas. The book Urban Literacy. Reading and Writing Architecture concludes with a chapter on the implications for contemporary design practice.

Klaske Havik is an architect and author, employed as a university lecturer in architecture at the Delft University of Technology.

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Literature offers valuable insights into how people experience, use and imagine places. In an accessible yet scientifically underpinned manner, Urban Literacy Reading and Writing Architecture offers new methods for ‘reading’ and ‘writing’ all sorts of places, from architecture to urban space.

The literary approach in Urban Literacy stems from criticism of a lack of attention for the above-mentioned aspects in the architectural and urban planning debate: experiencing, using and imagining. Urban Literacy. Reading and Writing Architecture brings together a variety of disciplines and theoretical approaches by means of three literary concepts: description, transcription and prescription. It translates them into the domain of architecture and urban planning, among other things through analyses of the work of Steven Holl, Bernard Tschumi and Rem Koolhaas. The book Urban Literacy. Reading and Writing Architecture concludes with a chapter on the implications for contemporary design practice.

Klaske Havik is an architect and author, employed as a university lecturer in architecture at the Delft University of Technology.

>> Lees ook de recensie van Angela Sondervan op ArchiNed