- New publication by Florian Urban, Professor and Head of
Architectural History and Urban Studies at the Mackintosh School of
Architecture at the GSA. - Book examines the dense, medium-rise,
multi-storey residences that have been the backbone of European inner-city
regeneration since 1970.
A publication on the new tenement by Florian Urban, Professor and Head of
Architectural History and Urban Studies at the Mackintosh School of
Architecture at the GSA, has been issued by Routledge. The result of the
research project which was funded by the Leverhulme Trust, the publication
involved research in Glasgow, London, Copenhagen, Rotterdam, Paris, Vienna and
Berlin.
Architectural History and Urban Studies at the Mackintosh School of
Architecture at the GSA, has been issued by Routledge. The result of the
research project which was funded by the Leverhulme Trust, the publication
involved research in Glasgow, London, Copenhagen, Rotterdam, Paris, Vienna and
Berlin.
A 310-page
book, which includes over 300 colour illustrations, The New Tenement focuses principally on five cities –
Berlin, Copenhagen, Glasgow, Rotterdam, and Vienna. It relates the
architectural design to an evolving intellectual framework that mixed
anti-modernist criticism with nostalgic images and strategic goals, and
absorbed ideas about the city as a generator of creativity, locale of
democratic debate, and object of personal identification.
book, which includes over 300 colour illustrations, The New Tenement focuses principally on five cities –
Berlin, Copenhagen, Glasgow, Rotterdam, and Vienna. It relates the
architectural design to an evolving intellectual framework that mixed
anti-modernist criticism with nostalgic images and strategic goals, and
absorbed ideas about the city as a generator of creativity, locale of
democratic debate, and object of personal identification.
In an
analysis of new tenements within the context of the post-functionalist city and
its mixed-use neighbourhoods, redeveloped industrial sites and regenerated
waterfronts Urban posits that these buildings are both generators of and an outcome
of an urban environment that has been characterised by information exchange rather
than industrial production, by the rise of individual expression rather than
mass culture, by visible history rather than comprehensive renewal, and by
conspicuous difference rather than egalitarianism.
analysis of new tenements within the context of the post-functionalist city and
its mixed-use neighbourhoods, redeveloped industrial sites and regenerated
waterfronts Urban posits that these buildings are both generators of and an outcome
of an urban environment that has been characterised by information exchange rather
than industrial production, by the rise of individual expression rather than
mass culture, by visible history rather than comprehensive renewal, and by
conspicuous difference rather than egalitarianism.
These new tenements
evolved under a welfare state that all over Europe has come under pressure, but
still to a certain degree balances and controls heterogeneity and economic disparities.
evolved under a welfare state that all over Europe has come under pressure, but
still to a certain degree balances and controls heterogeneity and economic disparities.
Part one
of the book explores architecture and the return to the inner city with chapters
on The New Tenement, New Tenement Style, and The IBA Berlin and the Genesis of
the New Tenement City.
of the book explores architecture and the return to the inner city with chapters
on The New Tenement, New Tenement Style, and The IBA Berlin and the Genesis of
the New Tenement City.
Part two
of the book looks at Local Conditions, Local Policies, and Symbolic Projects
and has chapters on Berlin (Political Upheavals and “Critical Reconstruction”),
Copenhagen (Waterfront Metropolis and Welfare State Capital), Glasgow (The
Reinvented Industrial City), Rotterdam (Port Town, Reconstruction Showcase,
Immigrant Hub) and Vienna (The City that Never Changes?).
of the book looks at Local Conditions, Local Policies, and Symbolic Projects
and has chapters on Berlin (Political Upheavals and “Critical Reconstruction”),
Copenhagen (Waterfront Metropolis and Welfare State Capital), Glasgow (The
Reinvented Industrial City), Rotterdam (Port Town, Reconstruction Showcase,
Immigrant Hub) and Vienna (The City that Never Changes?).
Part three
of the book looks at Urban Housing Themes with chapters on Post-Industrial
Housing and Urbanizing the Suburbs.
of the book looks at Urban Housing Themes with chapters on Post-Industrial
Housing and Urbanizing the Suburbs.
For review
copies of the book contact Routledge.
EVENT
Launch of The New Tenement
Thursday, 18 January 2018 at 6pm
copies of the book contact Routledge.
EVENT
Launch of The New Tenement
Thursday, 18 January 2018 at 6pm
The Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell Lane, Glasgow G1 3NU
In the last decades city centres have profoundly changed. Not only in
Glasgow, but all over Europe inner-city regeneration has replaced
suburbanization as the new policy paradigm, and many once decaying inner
cities are now renovated and populated by the new middle classes.
Glasgow, but all over Europe inner-city regeneration has replaced
suburbanization as the new policy paradigm, and many once decaying inner
cities are now renovated and populated by the new middle classes.
The event will look at the “return to the inner city” in Europe from
three different perspectives. Jonathan Charley (University of Strathclyde)
and Chris Leslie (independent photographer) will look at Moscow, where a
huge regeneration programme has just started that aims at demolition and
rebuilding of Khrushchev-era buildings. Rebecca Madgin (University of Glasgow)
will analyse the re-purposing of historic industrial buildings in British
city centres. Florian Urban (Glasgow School of Art) will present “new
tenements” – dense residences in the inner city – as the architecture of
the “return to the inner city” all over Europe.
three different perspectives. Jonathan Charley (University of Strathclyde)
and Chris Leslie (independent photographer) will look at Moscow, where a
huge regeneration programme has just started that aims at demolition and
rebuilding of Khrushchev-era buildings. Rebecca Madgin (University of Glasgow)
will analyse the re-purposing of historic industrial buildings in British
city centres. Florian Urban (Glasgow School of Art) will present “new
tenements” – dense residences in the inner city – as the architecture of
the “return to the inner city” all over Europe.
The event is free of charge, but please register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-new-tenement-architecture-and-the-return-to-the-inner-city-tickets-41105004174
For interviews with Professor Urban contact:
Lesley Booth, GSA Press Office
07799414474
press@gsa.ac.uk
Ends
Notes for
Editors
Editors
Professor
Urban was supported in the research by Ambrose Gillick (Mackintosh School of
Architecture at the GSA) and Lorenzo de
Chiffre (Vienna Technical University).
Urban was supported in the research by Ambrose Gillick (Mackintosh School of
Architecture at the GSA) and Lorenzo de
Chiffre (Vienna Technical University).
Florian Urban is
Professor and Head of Architectural History and Urban Studies at the Mackintosh
School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art. He holds an MA in Urban
Planning from UCLA (2001) and a Ph.D. in History and Theory of Architecture
from MIT (2006). He is the author of Neo-historical
East Berlin: Architecture and Urban Design in the German Democratic
Republic 1970–1990 (Ashgate 2009) and Tower
and Slab: Global Histories of Mass Housing (Routledge 2012).
Professor and Head of Architectural History and Urban Studies at the Mackintosh
School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art. He holds an MA in Urban
Planning from UCLA (2001) and a Ph.D. in History and Theory of Architecture
from MIT (2006). He is the author of Neo-historical
East Berlin: Architecture and Urban Design in the German Democratic
Republic 1970–1990 (Ashgate 2009) and Tower
and Slab: Global Histories of Mass Housing (Routledge 2012).