The City Represented - The View from the Car

Seminar (052-0828-21)
Organizer: Chair of Prof. Avermaete
Lecturers: Dr. Marianna Charitonidou, Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete
Time: FS 2021, Thursdays, 4.00 - 6:00 pm
Location: Online (and HPT C 103) on the 25.02. / 04.03. / 11.03. / 18.03. / 01.04. / 15.04. / 22.04. / 29.04. / 06.05. / 20.05.
Zoom links for the participation to the seminar will be provided ASAP.

Course Description

Abstract
The automobile has reshaped our conceptions of space and our modes of accessing and penetrating the urban and non-urban territory, revolutionizing how architects perceive the city and contributing significantly to the transformation of the relationship between architecture and urban space. The seminar examines architects’ automobile vision.

Objectives of the seminar
The main objective of the seminar is to help students understand how the automobile influenced architects’ perception of the environment and how its generalized use provoked the emergence of new theoretical concepts and eventually led to new design perspectives. It aims to untie the specificity of car travel as a new episteme of the urban landscape. One of the main learning objectives will be to help students understand that the emergence of the generalised use of the car is related not only to a new epistemological regime, but also to a new representational regime. The latter, which relies upon photography, film, new modes of visual mapping and particular diagrams, serves to capture this new epistemological regime. The seminar will make students aware that there is an agency and an intentionality behind this new representational regime. The themes addressed will be grouped per means of visualization including three sections: “Drawing and the View from the Car”, “Photography and the View from the Car”, and “Film and the View from the Car”. A fourth section will concern “Cross-Fertilization between the View from the Car and Design Strategies”. The structure of the seminar is organized in clusters of architects that were interested in similar questions related to the emergence of the new perceptual regime due to the generalized use of the car.
This seminar will help students understand the difference between capturing and interpreting reality when one films or photographs during a car trip. It will help students realize that each of these modes of representation is based on a different way of retrieving an experience later on. By the end of the course, the students will be able to argue why, when we decide to represent an experience of the city and more specifically a trajectory which is based on the sequential experience of landscape in a specific way, we make choices about what we extract from reality. These choices are based on what we consider to be the most important features of an urban landscape and depends on our own values and methods regarding not only the interpretation of architecture but also the strategies of intervention on a given site. By the end of the seminar, the students will acquire the skill of achieving the best possible alignment between what they consider to be the most important characteristics and the means for representing them.
In parallel, by the end of the teaching process, the students will be able to explain why the choice of specific fragments of reality and the ways in which we relate them goes hand in hand with the taxonomies we wish to build while narrating an experience of driving through a landscape. They will also be expected to understand that there is a tension between stimulation and documentation and that the quick change of views while driving though a landscape promotes a ‘snapshot aesthetics’ and connects to memory in a different way based on the superimposition and juxtaposition of visual impressions. The objective is to help students realise that even if we intend to focus on the same features of reality each mode of representation is characterised by a capacity to focus on certain aspects of reality. Focusing of the analysis of the different modes of representation, the seminar will help students become aware that when one chooses a means of representation over another, one is setting priorities.

Content of the seminar
An important component of the course will be the exploration of the interconnection between theory and architectural design practice. In parallel, the analysis of the connections between epistemological regimes and representational regimes will help them become aware of the intentionality characterizing the use of specific modes of representation. The seminar will also aim to help students understand how to choose the mode of representation that most efficiently promotes their architectural and urban design objectives. Special attention will be paid to the improvement of their skills in elaborating concepts coming from the history and theory of architecture and urban design for self-analysing their design processes, and to the enhancement of interactive learning through the organisation of several sessions of peer feedback on the texts, drawings and photographs produced by the students.
Telling regarding the understanding of car travel as a new episteme is Reyner Banham’s following remark, in Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies: “like earlier generations of English intellectuals who taught themselves Italian in order to read Dante in the original, I had to learn to drive in order to read Los Angeles in the original” [1]. During the second half of the 20th century, architects became increasingly aware of the impact of the car. Particular emphasis will be placed on the fact that the new perceptual regime related to its generalised use became more apparent within the American context. Some seminal books in which this becomes evident are Donald Appleyard, Kevin Lynch, and John Myer’s The View from the Road (1964), Reyner Banham’s Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (1971), and Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour’s Learning from Las Vegas (1972). For instance, in the latter, it becomes evident that one cannot make sense of Las Vegas by walking. Special attention will be paid to the analysis of cases that demonstrate that the view from the car as a new perceptual regime, instead of functioning simply as a tool serving to document visual impressions during travel, plays an important role in shaping the architects’ own architectural and urban design strategies.

Throughout the seminar the students will work collaboratively in order to contribute to the production of an exhibition entitled “The View from the Car: Autopia as a New Perceptual Regime”, which will be displayed at the gta exhibitions foyer space from 29 March 2021 through the end of spring semester 2021. An ensemble of exercises that will be held every two sessions will help students get familiarized with the theoretical concepts and the modes of representation analysed in the seminar. A booklet published at the end of the seminar will bring together the outcomes of these different exercises. The final presentation of the seminar will take place within the exhibition space and will be accompanied by the feedback of a jury consisting of different professors from the school.

Structure of the seminar

Drawing and the view from the car

Seminar 1, 25.02.2021
Kevin Lynch, Donald Appleyard and John Myer’s Mapping Strategies: Cognitive Maps

Seminar 2, 04.03.2021
Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour’s Diagrams: The Specificity of the American Urban and the View from the Car

Seminar 3 - 11.03.2021
Ian Nairn and Gordon Cullen’s “serial vision”, Outrage and subtopia
Crit with Dr. Irina Davidovici

Photography and the view from the car

Seminar 4 - 18.03.2021
John Lautner’s residences as equivalents of cameras: The
‘autophotographic grasp’

Seminar 5 - 01.04.2021
The “as found” and the act of capturing very materiality of
the artefacts through street photography

Seminar 6 - 15.04.2021
Aldo Rossi’s act of taking photographs from the car: Shaping
mental maps of the cities
Crit with Fredi Fischli & Niels Olsen

Film and the view from the car

Seminar 7 - 22.04.2021
Kevin Lynch’s “View from The Road”

Seminar 8 - 29.04.2021
Reyner Banham’s “Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles” & Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s “Deadpan”

Seminar 9 - 06.05.2021
The cross-fertilization between the view from the car and the design strategies
Crit with Dr. Hans Teerds

Seminar 10 - 20.05.2021
Final presentations of students

Lecture notes

A printed syllabus and a handout including the visual and textual material to be investigated during the seminar will be provided in the first seminar class. Weekly assigned readings will be provided in digital form. Additional readings will be put on reserve in the library.

Schedule

General Readings

• Borden, Iain, introduction to Drive: Journeys through Film, Cities and Landscapes  (London: Reaktion, 2013), 17-66.
  
• Borden, Iain, ”Cites,”  in Drive: Journeys through Film, Cities and Landscapes (London: Reaktion, 2013), 17-66.
  
• Scalbert, Irénée, “The Nature of the Gothic,”  in A Real Living Contact with the Things Themselves: Essays on Architecture (Zurich: Park Books, 2018), 1-61.
  
• Scalbert, Irénée, “The New Art Gallery and its Geography,”  in A Real Living Contact with the Things Themselves: Essays on Architecture (Zurich: Park Books, 2018), 251-279.
  
• Scalbert, Irénée, “London after the Green Belt,”  in A Real Living Contact with the Things Themselves: Essays on Architecture (Zurich: Park Books, 2018), 280-307.
  
• Urry, John, “The Tourist Gaze,”  in The Tourist Gaze: Leisure and Travel in Contemporary Societies (London: Sage Publications, 1990), 1-15.
  
• Urry, John, “Mass Tourism and the Rise and Fall of the Seaside Resort,”  in The Tourist Gaze: Leisure and Travel in Contemporary Societies (London: Sage Publications, 1990), 16-39.
  
• Urry, John, “The Changing Economics of the Tourist Industry,”  in The Tourist Gaze: Leisure and Travel in Contemporary Societies (London: Sage Publications, 1990), 40-65.
  
• Wray, Timothy, Higgott Andrew, “Introduction: Architectural and Photographic Constructs,”  in Wray, Timothy, Higgott Andrew, eds., Camera Constructs Photography, Architecture and the Modern City (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012), 1-20.
  
• Higgott, Andrew, “Frank Yerbury and the Representation of the New,”  in Wray, Timothy, Higgott Andrew, eds., Camera Constructs Photography, Architecture and the Modern City (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012), 23-34.
  
• Lavin, Sylvia, “Studs, Snaptshots, and Gizmos: Los Angeles Dearchitectured,”  in Lavin, Sylvia and Meyer, Kimberli, eds., Everything Loose will Land: 1970s art and architecture in Los Angeles (Nürnberg: MAK Center and Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2013), 26-49.
  
• Sadler, Simon, “Thirtyfour Parking Lots in the Fragmented Metropolis,”  in Lavin, Sylvia and Meyer, Kimberli, eds., Everything Loose will Land: 1970s art and architecture in Los Angeles (Nürnberg: MAK Center and Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2013), 50-55.
  
• Newbury, Susanna, “Archigrams Los Angeles: Sentimentality for the Future,”  in Lavin, Sylvia and Meyer, Kimberli, eds., Everything Loose will Land: 1970s art and architecture in Los Angeles (Nürnberg: MAK Center and Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2013), 56-61.

1 THE DRAWING & THE VIEW FROM THE CAR

25.02. Seminar 1
1.1 Compulsory Readings

• Appleyard, Donald, Kevin Lynch, John Myer, The View from the Road (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1964).
  
• [L]Zmudzinska-Nowak, Magdalena, “Searching for Legible City Form: Kevin Lynch’s Theory in Contemporary Perspective,”  in Journal of Urban Technology (2003): 19-39.

• Appleyard, Donald, M. Sue Gerson, Mark Lintell, introduction to Livable Streets  (Berkeley: Institute of Urban and Regional Development, University of California, 1976),1-14.
  
• Further Readings
  
• Appleyard, Donald, M. Sue Gerson, Mark Lintell, ”Three Streets in San Francisco,”  in Livable Streets (Berkeley: Institute of Urban and Regional Development, University of California, 1976), 15-28.
  
• Appleyard, Donald, Mark Lintell, “The Environmental Quality of City Streets The Residents' Viewpoint,”  in Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 38, Nº 2 (March 1972): 84-101.
  
• Lynch, Kevin, “Prologue: A Naive Question,”  in Theory of Good City Form (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1981), 1-4.
  
• Lynch, Kevin, “Form Values in Urban History,”  in Theory of Good City Form (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1981), 6-36.

04.03. Seminar 2
1.2 Compulsory Readings
Scott Brown, Denise, “Learning from Pop,”  in Casabella, nos 359–360 (1971), 15-19.
Stierli, Martino, “In Sequence: Cinematic Perception in Learning from Las Vegas,”  in Hunch 12 (2009), 76-85.

1.2 Further Readings

• Brown, Denise Scott, Steven Izenour, Robert Venturi, Learning from Las Vegas  (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1972).
  
• Stierli, Martino, introduction to Las Vegas in the Rearview Mirror: The City in Theory, Photography, and Film  (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2013), 1-20.
  
• Stierli, Martino, “The City in the Book: The Typography and Design of Learning from Las Vegas,”  in Las Vegas in the Rearview Mirror: The City in Theory, Photography, and Film (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2013), 23-73.

• von Moos, Stanislaus, preface to Venturi, Rauch & Scott Brown  (Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1987), 8.
  
• von Moos, Stanislaus, “Geschichte und ‚Common Sense‘,”  in Venturi, Rauch & Scott Brown (Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1987), 11-21.
  
• Scott Brown, Denise, introduction to Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown, A View from the Campidoglio. Selected Essays 1953- 1984  (New York: Harper & Row, 1984), 1-11.
  
• Venturi, Robert, “The Campidoglio: A Case Study,”  in Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown A View from the Campidoglio. Selected Essays 1953- 1984 (New York: Harper & Row, 1984), 12-13.
  
• Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown, “A Billboard Involving Movies, Relics and Space,”  in A View from the Campidoglio. Selected Essays 1953- 1984 (New York: Harper & Row, 1984), 14-18.
  
• Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown, “Learning from Lutyens,”  in A View from the Campidoglio. Selected Essays 1953- 1984 (New York: Harper & Row, 1984), 20-23.
  
• Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown, “’Leading from the Rear’: Reply to Martin Pawley,”  in A View from the Campidoglio. Selected Essays 1953- 1984 (New York: Harper & Row, 1984), 24-25.
  
• Scott Brown, Denise, “Learning from Pop,”  in Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown, A View from the Campidoglio. Selected Essays 1953- 1984 (New York: Harper & Row, 1984), 26-33.
  
• Scott Brown, Denise, “Pop Off: Reply to Kenneth Frampton,”  in Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown, A View from the Campidoglio. Selected Essays 1953- 1984 (New York: Harper & Row, 1984), 34-37.

11.03. Seminar 3
1.3 Compulsory Reading

• Cullen, Gordon, introduction to The Concise Townscape  (London: Architectural Press, 1961), 1-16.
  
• Cullen, Gordon, “Casebook: Serial Vision,”  in The Concise Townscape (London: Architectural Press, 1961), 17-20.
  
• Nairn, Ian, Outrage  (London, Architectural Press, 1955); the book combined articles published in Architectural Review, 117, no. 702 (1955), 364-460. (full book)
  
• Nairn, Ian, introduction to The American Landscape: A Critical View  (New York, Random House, 1965), 1-10.
  
• Nairn, Ian, “How it happened,”  in The American Landscape: A Critical View (New York, Random House, 1965), 11-19.
  
• Nairn, Ian, “Relationship and Sequence,”  in The American Landscape: A Critical View (New York, Random House, 1965), 20-49.

1.3 Further Reading

• Darley, Gillian, “Ian Nairn and Jane Jacobs, the lessons from Britain and America” , in The Journal of Architecture, 17:5 (2012), 733-746.
  
• Engler, Mira, Cut and Paste Urban Landscape: The Work of Gordon Cullen  (London; New York: Routledge, 2016). (full book)
  
• McCluskey, Jim, introduction to Road Form and Townscape  (London: Architectural Press, 1979), 1-10.
  
• McCluskey, Jim, ”The Townscape Alignment,”  in Road Form and Townscape (London: Architectural Press, 1979), 11-37.
  
• Nairn, Ian, Nairn's London (London, Penguin Books, 1966).
  
• Schwarzer, Mitchell, introduction to Zoomscape: Architecture in Motion and Media  (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2004), 9-29.
  
• Schwarzer, Mitchell, “Chapter 1: Railroad”  Zoomscape: Architecture in Motion and Media (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2004), 30-69.
  
• de Wolfe, Ivor, “Townscape: A Plea for an English Visual Philosophy”, in The Architectural Review 636 (1949), 362.

2 PHOTOGRAPHY & THE VIEW FROM THE CAR

18.03. Seminar 4
2.1 Compulsory Reading

• Lasansky, Medina D., introduction to D. Medina Lasansky, ed., Archi.Pop: Mediating Architecture in Popular Culture . (London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), 1-11.
  
• Yoder, Joh, “Vision and Crime: The Cinematic Architecture of John Lautner” , in D. Medina Lasansky, ed., Archi.Pop: Mediating Architecture in Popular Culture. (London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), 45-58.

2.1 Further Reading

• Haskell, Douglas “Googie Architecture” , in House & Home 1 (1952), 86-88.
  
• Hess, Alan, introduction toThe Architecture of John Lautner  (New York: Rizzoli, 1999), 1-34.
  
• Hess, Alan, preface and introduction to Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture  (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2004), 1-25.
  
• Hess, Alan, “L.A. in the Thirties”  Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2004), 26-43.
  
• Philbin, Ann, foreword to Olsberg, Nicholas, ed. Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner  (New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2008), 1-11.
  
• Cohen, Jean-Louis, “John Lauter’s luxuriant tectonics,”  in Olsberg, Nicholas, ed. Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner (New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2008), 13-33.
  
• Gaehtgens, Thomas W. “Studying Los Angeles’s Urbanism,”  in de Wit, Wim, and Christopher James, eds. Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990. (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2013), vii-xiii.
  
• De Wit, Wim and Christopher James Alexander, “Provoking New Perceptions of Los Angeles,”  in de Wit, Wim, and Christopher James, eds. Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990. (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2013), 1-12.
  
• Ethington, Philip J., “The Deep Historical Morphology of the Los Angeles Metropolis,”  in de Wit, Wim, and Christopher James, eds. Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990. (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2013), 13-21.
  
• Costello, Diarmuid. On Photography: a Philosophical Inquiry  (Abingdon, Oxon ;: Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018). (full book)

01.04. Seminar 5
2.2 Compulsory Reading

• Smithson, Alison, AS in DS: An Eye on the Road . Delft: Delft University Press, 1983. (full book)
  
• Smithson, Alison, AS in DS: An Eye on the Road. Baden: Lars Muller Verlag, 2001.
  
• Smithson, Alison, Peter Smithson, “As Found” , in Claude Lichtenstein, Thomas Schregenberger, eds. As Found, the Discovery of the Ordinary: British Architecture and Art of the 1950s (Baden, Switzerland: Lars Müller, 2001), 1-19.
  
• Claude Lichtenstein, Thomas Schregenberger, eds., As Found, the Discovery of the Ordinary: British Architecture and Art of the 1950s  (Baden, Switzerland: Lars Müller, 2001) (full book)

2.2 Further Reading

• Banham, Reyner, “The New Brutalism” , in The Architectural Review 118, no. 708 (1955): 354-361.
  
• Higgott, Andrew, “Memorability as Image: The New Brutalism and Photography ”, in Andrew Higgott, Timothy Wray, eds., Camera Constructs Photography, Architecture and the Modern City (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012), 283-94.
  
• Massey, Anne introduction to The Independent Group: Modernism and Mass Culture in Britain, 1945-1959  (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995), 1-3.
  
• Massey, Anne “Welfare State Culture,”  The Independent Group: Modernism and Mass Culture in Britain, 1945-1959 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995), 5-18.
  
• Massey, Anne “Modernism and the ICA,”  The Independent Group: Modernism and Mass Culture in Britain, 1945-1959 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995), 19-32.
  
• Risselada, Max, ed., The Space Between: Alison and Peter Smithson  (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Koenig, 2017), 175-181.
  
• Baas, Jacquelynn, introduction to Robbins, David, ed., The Independent Group: Postwar Britain and the Aesthetics of Plenty  (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1990), 8-11.
  
• Whitham, Graham, “Chronology,”  Robbins, David, ed., The Independent Group: Postwar Britain and the Aesthetics of Plenty (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1990), 12-13.
  
• Alloway, Lawrence “The Independent Group: Postwar Britain and the Aesthetics of Plenty,”  Robbins, David, ed., The Independent Group: Postwar Britain and the Aesthetics of Plenty (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1990), 49-62.
  
• Smithson, Alison, Peter Smithson, “The New Brutalism” , in Architectural Design 25, no. 1 (1955).
  
• Bahnham, Reyner, “New Brutalism” , in Claude Lichtenstein, Thomas Schregenberger, eds. As Found, the Discovery of the Ordinary: British Architecture and Art of the 1950s (Baden, Switzerland: Lars Müller, 2001), 124-137.
  
• Stalder, Laurent, “AS in DS: Alison und Peter Smithson und ihre Publikation AS in DS: an eye on the road ”, in Scholion 6 (2010), 171-183.
  
• Dirk van den Heuvel “Between Brutalists. The Banham Hypothesis and the Smithson Way of Life” , The Journal of Architecture, 20:2 (2015), 293-308.

15.04. Seminar 6
2.3 Compulsory Reading

• Lambert, Phyllis, preface to Paolo Costantini, ed., Luigi Ghirri/Aldo Rossi: Things Which Are Only Themselves  (Milan: Electa/Montreal: Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1996), 1-7.
  
• Costantini, Paolo, “Things Which are Only Themselves,”  in Costantini, Paolo ed., Luigi Ghirri/Aldo Rossi: Things Which Are Only Themselves (Milan: Electa/Montreal: Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1996), 8-30.
  
• Rossi, Aldo, Diana Agrest, “‘The Architecture of the City’ (interview with Aldo Rossi)”, in Skyline 2, no. 4 (1979).

2.3 Further Reading

• Eisenman, Peter, Aldo Rossi, preface and introduction to Frampton, Kenneth, ed., Aldo Rossi in America, 1976 to 1979: March 25 to April 14, 1976, September 19 to October 30, 1979  (New York: Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, 1979), 1-3.
  
• Eisenman, Peter, “The House of the Dead as the City of Survival,”  in Frampton, Kenneth, ed., Aldo Rossi in America, 1976 to 1979: March 25 to April 14, 1976, September 19 to October 30, 1979 (New York: Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, 1979), 4-16.
  
• Rossi, Aldo, A Scientific Autobiography , translated by Lawrence Venuti (Cambridge, Massachussetts ; London: The MIT Press, 1981), 1-55.
  
• Rossi, Aldo, The Architecture of the City , translated by Diane Ghirardo and Joan Ockman (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1982). (full book)
  
• Rossi, Aldo, John Hejduk, Colin Rowe, Aldo Rossi, John Hejduk. Ausstellung, Architekturabt. der ETH Zürich, 3-14. Dezember 1973, Katalog. (Zurich: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Architekturabteilung, 1973).

3 THE FILM & THE VIEW FROM THE CAR

22.04. Seminar 7
3.1 Compulsory Reading

• Appleyard, Donald, Kevin Lynch, John Myer, The View from the Road  (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1964). (full book)

3.1 Further Reading

• Bosselmann, Peter, introduction to Representation of Places: Reality and Realism in City Design  (Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 1998), xii-xiv.
  
• Bosselmann, Peter ”Concept and Experience: Two Views of the World,”  in Representation of Places: Reality and Realism in City Design (Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 1998), 2-18.
  
• Drake Reitan, Meredith, Tridib Banerjee, “Kevin Lynch in Los Angeles” , in Journal of the American Planning Association, 84:3-4 (2018), 217-229.
  
• Lynch, Kevin, The image of the city  (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1960). (full book)
  
• Lynch, Kevin, introduction to What time is this place?  (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1972), 1-7.
  
• Lynch, Kevin, “Cities Transforming,”  in What time is this place? (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1972), 3-29.
  
• Lynch, Kevin, “Managing the Sense of a Region,”  in Managing the Sense of a Region (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1976), 1-8.
  
• Lynch, Kevin, “The Sensory Quality of Regions,”  in Managing the Sense of a Region (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1976), 8-10.

29.04. Seminar 8
3.2 Compulsory Reading

• Day, Joey, “After Ecologies,”  in Banham, Reyner, Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (1971), introduction by Anthony Vidler (Berkeley, California; London: University of California Press, c2000), xv-xxxi.
  
• Vidler, Anthony, “Los Angeles: City of the Immediate Future,”  in Banham, Reyner, Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (1971), introduction by Anthony Vidler (Berkeley, California; London: University of California Press, c2000), xxxiii-xlix.
  
• Banham, Reyner, “In the Rear-view Mirror,”  in Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (1971), introduction by Anthony Vidler (Berkeley, California; London: University of California Press, c2000), 3-18.

3.2 Further Reading

• Hall, Peter, foreword to Banham, Reyner, A Critic Writes: Essays by Reyner Banham  (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996, xi-xv.
  
• Banham, Reyner, “Vehicles of Desire,”  Art, no. 1, 1955. Reprinted in A Critic Writes: Essays by Reyner Banham (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996, 3-6.
  
• Dimendberg, Edward, “The Kinetic Icon: Reyner Banham on Los Angeles as a Mobile Metropolis” , in Urban History 33, no. 1 (2006): 106-125.

06.05. Seminar 9
3.3 Compulsory Reading

• Stadler, Hilar, Museum im Bellpark, Kriens, Martino Stierli, „Second Reading,“  in Stadler, Hilar, Martino Stierli, Peter Fischli, Las Vegas Studio: Bilder aus dem Archiv von Robert Venturi und Denise Scott Brown (Zürich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2008), 9.
  
• Stierli, Martino, „Las Vegas Studio,“  in Stadler, Hilar, Martino Stierli, Peter Fischli, Las Vegas Studio: Bilder aus dem Archiv von Robert Venturi und Denise Scott Brown (Zürich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2008), 1-71.
  
• Stierli, Martino, “In Sequence: Cinematic Perception in Learning from Las Vegas” , in Hunch 12 (2009), 76-85.

3.3 Further Reading

• Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown, “’Leading from the Rear’: Reply to Martin Pawley,”  in A View from the Campidoglio. Selected Essays 1953- 1984 (New York: Harper & Row, 1984), 24-25.
  
• Vinegar, Aron, introduction to I am a Monument: On Learning from Las Vegas  (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2008), 1-12.
  
• Vinegar, Aron, “Approaching Las Vegas in Wonder and Ambivalence,”  in I am a Monument: On Learning from Las Vegas (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2008), 13-32.
  
• Scott Brown, Denise, introduction to Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown, A View from the Campidoglio. Selected Essays 1953- 1984  (New York: Harper & Row, 1984), 1-11.
  
• Venturi, Robert, “The Campidoglio: A Case Study,”  in Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown A View from the Campidoglio. Selected Essays 1953- 1984 (New York: Harper & Row, 1984), 12-13.
  
• Leach, Andrew, “Leaving Las Vegas, Again” , in Grey Room 61, (2015), 6-33.
  
• Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott-Brown, “Der Parkplatz von Atlantic & Pacific Oder: Was Lehrt Und Las Vegas?” , in Das Werk: Architektur Und Kunst 56 (1969), 203-212.
  
• Venturi, Robert, Paul R. Kramer, “Wir Lernen Von Rom Und Las Vegas” , in Das Werk: Architektur Und Kunst 61(1974), 202-2012.
  
• Wolfe, Tom, introduction to “Las Vegas (What?) Las Vegas (Can't hear you! Too noisy) Las Vegas!!!! ”, in The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake-Streamline-Baby,(New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1964), xi-xvii.
  
• Wolfe, Tom, “Las Vegas (What?) Las Vegas (Can't hear you! Too noisy) Las Vegas!!!!” , in The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake-Streamline-Baby,(New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1964), 3-24.

4 THE CROSS-FERTILIZATION BETWEEN THE VIEW OF THE CAR AND THE DESIGN STRATEGIES

20.05. Seminar 10
4 Further Reading

• Banerjee, Tridib, Michael Southworth, “Kevin Lynch: His Life and Work”  as introduction to Banerjee, Tridib, Michael Southworth, eds., City sense and city design: Writings and projects of Kevin Lynch (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1991), 1-29.
  
• Banerjee, Tridib, Michael Southworth, “The Form of Cities” , City sense and city design: Writings and projects of Kevin Lynch (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1991), 33-46.
  
• Mitrasinovic, Miodrag, Jilly Traganou, eds., Travel, Space, Architecture  (Burlington: Ashgate, 2016). (full book)
  
• Mitchell, William J. Thomas, introduction to Mitchell, William J. Thomas, ed., The language of images  (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1980), 1-8.
  
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View From The Road—Kevin Lynch (1965)

Below you can watch a short film produced by Professor Kevin Lynch BCP ’47 produced this high-speed film as part of his studies into the theory of city form and of human perceptions of the city.

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Contact

Dr. ir Marianna Charitonidou
marianna.charitonidou@gta.arch.ethz.ch