UNDERSTANDING CITIES
COMMUNITIES IN CITIES • Louis Kahn • Metropolis Movie by Directed by Fritz Lang, Germany, 1927 • Zootopia (released as Zootropolis or Zooma nia in several countries)2016,Walt Disney Pictures.
Place and Place-Making • Image of the city- Book by Mr. Lynch • The Common Thread – Article by Susan Silberberg • Cultural Resurgence, Place Making and Urbanism: Towards a Conceptual Framework, Binti Singh • Meet the Romans: Citizen of Empire Documentary hosted by acclaimed British Historian Mary Beard
Roman Mythological figure of Genius Loci of a Place
Sense of Place
• Blinding Lights – The Weeknd • Peter Zumthor- Thinking Architecture • Jane Jacobs on city planning
Community
Mobai Bhavan
Mobai Bhavan (Museum) Photo Credits: www.thewingedfork.com
Louis I. Kahn: Drawings for City/2 Exhibition: The Street is a Room, charcoal, 864×864 mm, 1971 (Philadelphia, PA, Museum of Art);
The Clay room- by Andy Goldsworthy
Genius Loci • The Roman Mythology
Shots from the Blinding Lights Music Video
Memory of City
Andy Goldsworthy's team at work
• Artwork being an excellent examples of case specific creation, touching sentiments of people through use of non-conventional materials such as human hair and local clay.
Philosophies and works by Architects • Kevin Lynch • Aldo Rossi • Norberg-Schulz • Patrick Geddes
ARCHITECTURE TO AGNIZE Recognizing and enhancing the existence of Vernacular in Urban ‘KOLI COMMUNITY OF MUMBAI’
Image from the movie Zootopia Image from the movie Metropolis , view of the main tower
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