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Scale in cities is relative and absolute. It has the ability to make us feel at home in the world or alien from it; connected or disconnected. This book explores how scale is manifested in cities, exploring scale in buildings, in the space between them and in their details. It asks how scale makes a difference.
List of contents
Acknowledgements Foreword: Scaling the XXL -- Kees Christiaanse Introduction Chapter 1: On Scale and Size Chapter 2: On Scale and Movement Chapter 3: On Scale and Edges Chapter 4: On Scale and Grain Chapter 5: On Scale and Form Chapter 6: On Scale, Skeletons and Surface Chapter 7: On Scale and Detail Conclusion: From Nature Select Bibliography Index Picture Credits
About the author
Tim Makower is an architect and urbanist. He was educated at Cambridge and the Royal College of Art. He worked with Allies and Morrison for 25 years and became a partner there in 2006. He led many of their major projects of architecture and urban design, including projects in the UK such as the King's Cross Masterplan, Bankside, Liverpool One, St Andrews Bromley-by-Bow and in the Middle East, Msheireb, the National Archive of Qatar, Sidra Village and others. In 2012 he left Allies and Morrison to found Makower Architects, and he is now engaged in new projects which include the Al Rayyan Gate Masterplan, the Qatar Bio-Hub, the Regeneration Framework for Old Doha and the GORD Eco-Villa. He has been involved for many years in education in Qatar, the UK and also in the United States and has published numerous articles. From 2011 to 2012, he held the co-chair of architecture and urban design at Qatar University.
Summary
Scale in cities is relative and absolute. It has the ability to make us feel at home in the world or alien from it; connected or disconnected. This book explores how scale is manifested in cities, exploring scale in buildings, in the space between them and in their details. It asks how scale makes a difference.
