From 1871 until 1917, there was a Blackheath Hill Station, just west of the heath.  The wondeful Subterranea Britannica has some great photos of how it used to look, how it was filled in with earth, and a particularly good shot of part of the platform re-emerging out of the ground during building works.

These days the station has been replaced by an estate of houses.  I can't help wondering if the residents of the houses built above the station sometimes wake up in the middle of the night, hearing ghostly steam trains rattling beneath their floorboards.

Have a look at the photos here.   The whole of their site is well worth a look - the mysteries of the deep level london shelters especially.

“I viewed the morning with much alarm. The British Museum has lost its charm.” So wrote George Gershwin in the song “A Foggy Day” -- decades before Sir Norman Foster built the charming new central courtyard. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the courtyard is open until 11 p.m.! Right now, there’s a juicy show featuring American art: “The American Scene features around 150 outstanding prints by 74 leading modern American artists, including George Bellows, Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Josef Albers, Alexander Calder, Louise Bourgeois and Jackson Pollock.” Really nice gift shops.

Getting there: Take the Northern line tube to Tottenham Court Road. Or get out one stop earlier at Goodge Street, which has a working elevator instead of escalators, and walk down Tottenham Court Road. 

A History of Architectural Conservation expands knowledge about the conservation of ancient monuments, works of art and historic buildings. It includes the origins of the interest in conservation within the European context, and the development of the concepts from Antiquity and the Renaissance to the present day. Jokilehto illustrates how this development has influenced international collaboration in the protection and conservation of cultural heritage, and how it has formed the principal concepts and approach to conservation and restoration in today's multi-cultural society.

This book is based on archival research of original documents and the study of key restoration examples in countries that have influenced the international conservation movement. Accessible and of great interest to students and the general public it includes conservation trends in Europe, the USA, India, Iran and Japan.

* Uses world-wide examples to give a complete overview of the modern approach to conservation and restoration
* Provides a thorough explanation of the development of the concepts of conservation from traditional to modern society
* Learn from the knowledge of this experienced and well respected author

'For anyone who might still doubt the existence of an overall European culture and its coexistence in permanent dialogue with national cultures, the history of restoration, as presented by architect Jukka Jokilehto, should be a convincing demonstration'
Paul Philippot, Director Emeritus of ICCROM and Universite Libre of Brussels

'An excellent review of attempts over a vast sweep of historical time to preserve our built heritage.'
Heritage Development

'This book is a thought provoking and illuminating read.'
EASA Newsletter

'This book is a scholarly work, based on archival research of original documents and the study of key restoration examples in countries that have influenced the international conservation movement. It includes conservation trends in Europe, the USA, India, Iran and Japan. The book is accessible in style and highly relevant to all practitioners.'
Conservation Forum

'Jokilehto deserves praise for bringing together for the first time the chief sources of western European conservation ethics in a readable and thoughtful...style.'
The Architects' Journal

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Three hundred full-color illustrations and elucidating text showcase the work of the Taliesin Architects, a firm started by the students and coworkers of legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright after his death in 1959. Guided by a desire to create buildings in harmony with nature; to make a positive contribution to the way people live; and to keep Wright's vision alive, this book offers an overview of Taliesin Architects' work of the past forty years and a succinct summary of his design principles.

"John Rattenbury worked and studied with Frank Lloyd Wright for eight years. Since he cofounded Taliesin Architects, he has designed more than two hundred architectural and planning projects. Rattenbury teaches design and professional practice at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture and lectures throughout the United States.

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The colors of Sante Fe are intense despite the constant flood of bright sunlight. There is little haze there in the dry air. I loved the red of the adobe tiles that roofed this theater against the blue and white of the sky.

About an hour after this shot taken, the lovely white cumulus spread and darkened the sky, dumping hard rain in a downpour so loud and intense that conversation has to be shouted to be heard. I'd set out on foot that morning with only my camera - and no jacket or bag to protect it. A kind shop keeper offered me a plastic bag to tie around my Nikon, and I learned that flash flooding does indeed happen in a flash.

Cool house by Jackson Clements Burrows Architects. (Found via Ffffound!)

We had a party at our house (not pictured) last night. It was fun! Did I tell you that my awesome sister is in town?

When our planned speaker postponed the next morning, I offered the students a day off to explore Ankara. Instead, they wanted to go out to Gordion, a site where UNC Classics Professor Ken Sams leads an excavation. After taxi, dolmus, and bus rides, we found ourselves looking up at a mound that had previously been a city.

I loved Ken Sams’ discussion. We had encountered many guides who provided details about the stones. Ken is a historian. He told us what is known about the people who had lived at Gordion, how we know the things we know about them, and what we don’t know yet. As we stood looking into the stone walls between structures, he told us that the same things had been found in each. These implements provided information on food and textile manufacturing technology, but not why the same things had been found in each room. Archaeologist still don’t know who did the production, and how labor was organized.

Ken explain to us the kinds of things archaeologists can know, what they wish they knew, why they think other kinds of records may no longer exist. And we learned that archaeologists sometimes revise their previous judgements. We visited the tomb of King Midas. Ken explained, though, that new dating suggested that the corpse was Midas’ father, making it still the tomb that Midas built, but not quite, well, the tomb in which he was buried.

At the small museum next to the excavation, one of the graduate students working at the site explained that the local population had emulated Hellenistic pottery–it was quite the style in some circles. But they didn’t understand some of the Greek pottery's particular functions, so their imitations are of great interest when analyzing cultural transmission. Ken had talked about the Greeks’ bringing their own languages and customs to Gordion–and to Anatolia generally–but both he and his student emphasized that the local, pre-Greek population remained present throughout the countryside. So what is a “Turk?” It was Phrygians who lived at Gordion–or anyway, it was a Phrygian government who ruled the people. And, it seems, the local population learned from the Greeks, but the Greeks also picked up some of the local customs.

The second Ankara morning was devoted to Atatürk, of course. I got to stay at the dorms with an ill student while William took the students to Anıtkabir, Atatürk’s mausoleum and museum. Their guide was a friend's father, a retired politician, former cultural minister, and a great admirer of the Founder. After reading of, talking about, and observing the Atatürk cult from afar, the students were able to get right to its center. I am sorry I missed it, but was delighted to hear about what the experience was like for them. (Check out their blogs, links on the right.)

By afternoon, everyone seemed well enough to go to the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, where Thomas Zimmermann, archaeologist from Bilkent, talked to us about Turkey’s pre-history. He began outside, talking about the buildings themselves, how the project of taking Ottoman hans and turning them into an archaeological museum was an inherently political project. The goal was to claim a distinctly Turkish past, a past that predated the Ottomans, the Seljuks, and even the Byzantines. It reminded me of the new Lebanese state’s efforts to find its Phoenician past, and the nationalist Egyptians’ attempts to claim Pharonic origin. In this case, the new Turkish nationalists used archaeology to trace a very long historical trajectory, claiming that they descended from the Hattas and the Hittites.

This is an award-winning museum, displayed well and labeled clearly, organized coherently and quite beautifully presented. It creates a linear historical path from pre-historical people to the Turkish present, almost ignoring the Greeks and Romans, who seem to be off limits-- invaders instead of true inhabitants of the heartland. I found myself wondering how historians get to choose which groups are authentic and which are outsiders. But in any case, I think the students understand that there is much at stake in the project, more important than memorizing which artifacts go in which era.

Thomas’ fascination with metals was clear–it’s always exciting to have a teacher who is enthusiastic about his work.

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Designed by Garber & Woodward and completed in 1921, the Dixie Terminal Building sits on the SW corner of Walnut and 4th Sts. It was originally built as a streetcar terminal and shops and offices, including the Cincinnati Stock Exchange. It later served as a bus depot and is now an office building.

The facade includes tilework by Cincinnati's own Rookwood Pottery. The interior arcade is a location in Rain Man, where Charlie finds out about the trust fund. Garber & Woodward were also involved in the design of the Vernon Manor Hotel in Cincinnati, which is another Rain Man location.

A series of evocative, slightly abstract images marked the start of Billie Tsien's keynote address at CV08. Described by Tsien as "objects of beauty and use" in the folk art tradition, these images set the tone for the address that touched on six Tod Williams/Billie Tsien (TWBTA) projects focussing on her particular approach to each architectural problem.

Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, as partners in work and love, have created a truly enviable architectural practice. Tsien spoke about their 16th floor Carnegie Hall apartment of over 30 years - apparently at the urging of Williams - is a compact, light-filled space, characterised by traditional art collected over the years. By revealing this personal space upfront, she set the tone for the projects that followed.

American Folk Art Museum (2001)
Part of New York's famous Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) family, the American Folk Art Museum is a compact, vertical building, characterised by large stair that winds a path through the building. Tsien affectionately called it the "jewel in the belly button of MOMA". As an infill building, the verticality of the form was generated in response to the context and site plan constraints, where the site is only 12 x 30 metres and accommodates a 2,800m2 program.

Typically for TWBTA there are subtleties in the design, such as the angled sections of on the main facade in order to catch morning and afternoon sunlight which reveals surface detail, that highlight the depth of their design process. The surface detail apparent in the main elevation is the result of a exploratory prototyping process involving cast white bronze to create richly furrowed panels that add a layer of detail to the facade. Extensive research and reinterpretation of materials, not often employed in architecture, is integral to all their projects and, to me, distinguishes TWBTA's portfolio from other US architects.

As the galleries are stacked vertically, the museum is a "circulation rich experience" according to Tsien where the main stair in the core of the building and becomes a "basket that holds the light" from a skylight overhead. The internal spaces are idiosyncratic as Tsien says she is searching for buildings that are slowly discovered - not one liners - where there is a possibility of a dual reading of the architecture.

We are community. We as architects are leaving our mark on the world.
[Billie Tsien, 12 April 2008]

Cranbrook Natatorium (1999)
Within the context of a Eliel Saarinen designed campus with subsequent buildings by Moneo and Holl, the Cranbrook Natatorium, Michigan is a naturally ventilated pool with occuli (circular openings) in the roof allow light and air to circulate, sometimes even snow! Tsien described it as a "bent arm" building with walls in the landscape rather than terminating the grass courtyard on the site axis. Similar to Shim-Sutcliffe's re-appropriation of greenhouse skylight systems, Tsien used mining industry technology for the window and roof opening control mechanisms.

Starr East Asian Library (2008)
The result of a 13 year gestation, the Starr East Asian Library, University of California at Berkley was completed earlier this year. Responding to the neo-classical existing library, the 6,317m2 building is "a box for books" that is set into the slope of the site with a "face" (facade) fabricated from granite panels and a bronze screen cast in China. This screen filters natural light to the interior like a veil. Internal spaces were influenced by the Long Room at Trinity College, Dublin. Without the benefit of actually visiting the building, the interior appears far more successful than the relatively bland (for TWBTA) exterior envelope.

Tata Consultancy Services Campus (2010)
In a similar fashion, the Tata Consultancy Services Campus in Mumbai, India incorporates a modern interpretation of a "jali", a traditional stone carved screen used for centuries as both sunshade and ventilated wall. Interestingly, the construction process has commenced and Tsien explained the need for full-size prototypes of various facade elements to ensure quality and that the material detail is clearly understood. Close work with handcrafted materials and artisans was apparent in most of the buildings presented in the keynote and the Tata Campus, despite it's sheer size, is no different for TWBTA. 

Projects Discussed (in order)

• American Folk Art Museum, New York (2001)
• Cranbrook Natatorium, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (1999)
• Lakeside Centre (skating rink) at Prospect Park, New York (2011)
• Starr East Asian Library, University of California Berkley (2008)
• Tata Consultancy Services Campus, Mumbai, India (2010)
• The Snow Show, Finland (2004)

Resources

• About the building materials for the American Folk Art Museum
• A walkthrough (with plans) of the American Folk Art Museum
• Cranbrook Complexities - an article from The Architecture Review from 2001
• A slideshow of Cranbrook Natatorium
• Starr East Asian Library opening day promo video
• Timelapse video of the construction of the Starr East Asian Library
• A slideshow of the Starr East Asian Library

Kota-kota awal yang dibahas pada pertemuan ini adalah kota Semarang, Makassar, dan Bandung.

I. KOTA SEMARANG

I.1. Letak Geografis

Semarang terletak terletak di pantai utara laut jawa dengan luas wilayah 37.366.383 ha. Secara astronomis terletak pada 6º, 5' - 7º, 10' LS dan 110º, 35' BT. Semarang merupakan simpul empat pintu gerbang, yakni koridor pantai utara, koridor selatan ke arah kota-kota dinamis seperti kab. magelang, surakarta yang dikenal dengan koridor mmerapi-merbabu, koridor timur kearah kabupaten demak/grobogan dan barat menuju kab. Kendal.

I.2. Awal Pendirian Semarang

Semarang didirikan pada tahun 1594 oleh Sultan Pandanaran sebagai bagian kerajaan Demak. Semarang merupakan salah satu pusat penyiaran agama Islam dan sebagai pusat perdagangan dari daerah-daerah sekitar Semarang dan juga dari Arab / Persia, Belanda (VOC), Cina dan Melayu.

I.3. Masa Penjajahan

Di bawah kolonialisme Belanda perkembangan semarang cukup pesat dengan dibangunnya berbagai kepentingan Belanda, seperti :

a). Sarana dan prasarana perkotaan sepert jalan, transportasi kereta api, pasar-pasar dan sebagainya,

b). Dalam sejarahnya tanggal 16 Juni 1864 dibangun jalan kereta api (rel) pertama di Indonesia,

c). dibangun 2 stasiun kereta api yang masih ada sekarang yaitu Tawang dan Poncol.

Agama Islam tetap berkembang sehingga kebudayaan yang bernuansa Islampun tak lepas dari perkembangannya

I.4. Pasca Kemerdekaan

Dengan dikeluarkannya Peraturan Pemerintah (PP) No. 16 tahun 1976 wilayah Semarang yang semula lima kecamatan mengalami pemekararan menjadi sembilan kecamatan. Pusat-pusat industri, perdagangan, pendidikan, pemukiman, pertahanan keamanan mulai diatur dalam lokasi-lokasi yang tepat dan strategis. Kota bawah cepat berkembang menjadi pusat perdagangan. Perkembangan selanjutnya yang tampak menonjol adalah industri dan pernukiman penduduk.

I.5. Masa Kini

Dengan dasar Peraturan Pemerintah Rl (PP) No. 50/92 tentang penentuan Kecamatan-kecamatan, maka Semarang terbagi menjadi 16 Kecamatan. Era reformasi melahirkan penataan baru meliputi pembangunan jalan, pengembangan industri, dan pembangunan pemukiman, dan dicanangkannya ototnomi daerah tahun 2000. Sampai sekarang terdapat problem yang belum juga tuntas selama bertahun-tahun yaitu banjir

II. KOTA MAKASSAR

Makassar merupakan Kota kolonial. Perkembangan tata ruang kotanya sangat dipengaruhi oleh nuansa Belanda. Berbeda dengan pola-pola kota di daerah Jawa. Sebelum Kemerdekaan Republik Indonesia ( masa penjajahan), makassar merupakan salah satu kota bentukan Belanda yang juga merupakan sirkulasi perdagangan dan pertahanan Belanda. Di tepi Pantai dibangun benteng (ciri khas daerah bekas jajahan belanda) penamaan lokasi dan jalan-jalan tertentu/penting memakai bahasa belanda, dan permukiman di pisahkan menurut Etnis dan strata sosial.

Pada masa kini kota Makassar semakin berkembang kearah timur. Timbul pusat kota baru di mana juga berkembang pusat perdagangan.

REVOLUSI INDUSTRI

(KOTA NEOKLASIK DAN KOLONIAL AMERIKA)

I. KOTA NEOKLASIK

I.1. Monarki Dan Monumentalis

Karakter monumentalis kembali ke kota. Setiap bentuk mempunyai garis tengah, dan setiap ruangan mempunyai sumbu. Kualitas struktural dari abad pertengahan digantikan oleh sumbu bentuk ukiran klasik, yang dirancang secara simetris.

I.2. Kota Zaman Barok

Pada abad XVII, kota barok berkembang dan dominasi penguasa semakin besar. Jalan-jalan raya versailles memusat ke istana raja, dan di jerman seluruh kota Karlsruhe dan Mannheim mengelilingi seputar istana-istana dan taman-taman besar dari keluarga kerajaan.

I.2.1. Versailles

Garis tengah dan sumbu melambangkan besarnya kekuasaan keluarga raja. Louis XIV memindahkan istananya dari kota paris yang padat ke tempat perburuan terbuka di versailles, dan ia memerintahkan agar jalan-jalan raya memancara dari istananya yang megah.

I.2.2. Karlsruhe

Seluruh kota karlsruhe dipandang untuk berputar sekitar dan memancar dari istana pangeran.

II. KOLONIAL AMERIKA

II.1. New Amsterdam

Permukiman orang belanda di New Amsterdam dibangun di ujung daerah yang sekarang disebut Manhattan. Jalan-jalan yang dibuat tahun 1660 dekat pelabuhan masih tetap mempertahankan pola aslinya, diantaranya Lower Broadway (disebut breedway oleh orang belanda), Broad Street dan Wall Street. Pola jalan yang hampir tidak teratur gaya abad pertengahan dan kanal adalah tiruan dari kota-kota Belanda.

II.2. Philadelphia

William Penn menugasi Thomas Holme untuk merencanakan kota itu pada tahun 1682. suatu rencana gridiron yang kaku diterapakan. Dua jalan utama bersilang di pusat koata dan membentuk sebuah lapangan umum. Sebuah taman blok persegi ditampatkan dalam setiap kuadran. Rumah-rumah awal adalah rumah untuk keluarga tunggal. Pada pertengahan abad XVIII sudah umum membangun rumah sepanjang samping sehingga terbentuk jajaran bangunan sinambung yang menghalangi akses ke halaman belakang. Gang-gang kemudian dibuat memotong tengah-tengah blok, yang kemudian menjadi jalan.

II.3. Savannah

Rencana Savannah yang dibut pada tahun 1733 oleh James Oglethorpe terdiri dari jalan lurus berpola tratur dengan taman-taman diletakkan disetiap dua blok. Rencana kota ini serupa dengan Philadelphia, dengan peruntukan ruang terbuka yang lebih banyak.

II.4. Washington D.C

Rencana yang dibuat oleh L’Enfant dam disetujui oleh Washington dan Jefferson mengawasi serangkaian proyek perencanaan dimana jalan-jalan radial dan diagonal ditimpakan pada pola gridiron yang umum. Kota ini dirancang sebagai lingkungan monumental yang besar untuk pemerintah federal negara baru ini.

II.5. Kota New York

Setelah menolak usulan perencana dan arsitek Joseph Mangin tahun 1800, sebuah panitia dibentuk tahun 1811 untuk menyusun sebuah rencana kota. Mereka megusulkan sebuah pola jalan gridiron yang diterapkan pada topografi yang tidak rata. Ruang terbuka kurang disediakan, hanya sebuah lapangan parade militer seluas 69 acre, 55 acre untuk pasar, dan 5 taman kecil yang disediakan dalam rencana itu. Meskipun alasan kurangnya ruang terbuka adalah “harga tanah yang luar biasa tinggi,” namun pola jalan yang direncanakan sebenarnya tidak ekonomis; jalan-jalan tersebut hanya menemapati sekitar 30% tanah. Rencana asli yang kaku ini tercermin dalam kota yang padat dewasa ini dimanan ruang terbuka telah menghilang. Baru pada pertengahan abad XIX, Central Park yang besar itu diletakkan dalam rencana kota.

GARDEN CITY

I. LATAR BELAKANG

Latar belakang munculnya konsep Garden Cities, yaitu:

· Dampak Revolusi Industri: munculnya pusat-pusat pertumbuhan baru menjadikan daerah sekitar lokasi industri menjelma menjadi kota-kota besar yang padat karena proses urbanisasi,

· Ledakan jumlah penduduk memunculkan masalah lingkungan dan pemukuman kumuh,

· Akibat revolusi industri membuat orang berfikir membuat konsep kota yang lebih baik,

· Kebutuhan akan pemenuhan kebutuhan pemukiman disambut oleh developer untuk menciptakan pemukiman yang sehat, humanis, dan jauh dari kesan mekanis.

Letchworth City yang merupakan kota taman pertama adalah kawasan perumahan berkepadatan rendah yang perkembangan dan pertumbuhan kotanya bertolak belakang dengan praktek spekulatif di kota lazimnya. Tiap rumah memiliki halaman dan taman sendiri.

II. CONTOH-CONTOH KASUS

II.1. Contoh Kasus di Eropa

Inggris membuat Undang-undang Perumahan dan Perencanaan Kota dengan kriteria: paling sedikit sepertiga rumah yang ada sudah terlalu padat atau secara fisik tidak layak dan tidak bisa diperbaiki, kawasan semacam ini dinyatakan cocok untuk peremajaan dan pemerinta daerah diberi wewenang untuk mengambil alih seluruh atau sebagian tanah dan untuk diatur kembali pembangunannya oleh pemerintah atau perusahaan swasta.

II.2. Contoh Kasus di Indonesia

Kota taman pertama di Indonesia yang dirancang arsitek lokal yaitu 1948 oleh Moh.Soesilo merupakan kota taman bergaya eropa ( belanda ) dalam iklim tropis sehingga sering disebut sebagai kota taman tropis. Kota taman ini memiliki konsistensi hierarki jalan dan peruntukan jalan yang jelas dan di dominasi ruang terbuka hijau dari total luas Kebayoran Baru.

KONSEP KOTA BARU

I. PENGERTIAN KOTA BARU

Secara umum, kota baru adalah kota yang direncanakan, dibangun dan dikembangkan pada saat suatu atau beberapa kota lainnya yang direncanakan dan dibangun sebelumnya telah tumbuh dan berkembang.

II. LATAR BELAKANG

Wawasan terhadap pengertian, batasan serta perwatakan “kota baru” yang dikemukakan para pakar mencakup kota-kota baru yang direncanakan dan dikembangkan sejak masa silam, khususnya sejak kebangkitan peradaban budaya masa Yunani kuno (Gideon Golany, 1976). Konsep pemikiran kota baru yang dikembangkan sejak dikenal filsafat perencanaan modern yang dumulai akhir abad ke-19, yaitu sejak dicetuskannya konsepsi “garden city” oleh Ebenezer Howard di Inggris(A.C. Duff, 1964). Sebagai suatu ‘konsepsi’, kota baru kemudian dianggap merupakan salah satu cara dalam pemecahan masalah perumahan dan permukiman kota. Konsepsi dasar mengenai ‘kota baru’ yang pada awalnay dikembangkan menjadi landasan pemikiran konsepsual untuk memecahkan masalah perumahan dan permukiman kota di belahan bumi lainnya. Demikian spesifik dan tipikalnya perilaku ‘kota baru’ ini, sehingga pengertian, batasan dan perwatakannya telah mengalami perkembangan yang tipikal untuk setiap negara.

III. PERKEMBANGAN KOTA BARU

Dalam dimensi masa, tahapan perkembangan kota baru dapat dibagi menjadi:

- Kota baru masa silam dan masa pra revolusi industri,

- Kota baru masa revolusi industri,

- Kota baru masa pasca revolusi industri,

- Kota baru masa kini.

IV. KOTA BARU MASA SILAM DAN MASA PRA REVOLUSI INDUSTRI

Dalam arti yang hakiki,kota baru dikenal sejak masa Mesir, Yunani dan Romawi kuno dan kemudian pada masa abad pertengahan dan masa peralihan (Renaissance) di Eropa. Beberapa pemukiman lama yang dapat dicontohkan sebagai kota baru pada masa Yunani,seperti kota-kota yang terdapat di sepanjang mediterania sampai ke kota-kota yang didirikan bangsa Romawi di Mesopotamia dan Afrika Utara. Pada abad pertengahan,misalnya kota-kota wilayah Andalusia (Spanyol) seperti di Granada, Sevilla, dan wilayah Baghdad. Pada abad peralihan, misalnya kota-kota di sepanjang Lembah Garonne di Perancis. Masa menjelang revolusi industri di Eropa Barat,seperti: pembangunan kota baru di wilayah frontier Amerika, seperti Savannah, Georgia, Washington DC, Pullman, Illinois dan Philadelphia.

V. KOTA BARU MASA REVOLUSI INDUSTRI

Kota yang diartikan sebagai kota baru pada masa revolusi industri, ada dua jenis yaitu:

· Kota pekerja (workers town),seperti Saltaire, New Lenark dan Port Sunlight di Inggris dan Skotlandia; kota industri Krupp di Jerman; kota baru Chaux di Perancis; Lowell dan Pullman di wilayah perindustrian Amerika Serikat.

· Kota satelit, seperti Le Vesenet di sekitar Paris; Riverside,Illionis, yang direncanakan oleh Frederick Law Olmsted.

VI. KOTA BARU MASA PASCA REVOLUSI INDUSTRI

Pada masa ini, dikembangkan konsepsi garden city yang dicetuskan sebagai inovasi untuk memecahkan masalah permukiman di kota-kota yang padat industri. Tokohnya yaitu Ebenezer Howard. Konsepsi ini baru mulai diwujudkan sekitar awal abad ke-20, dengan didirikannya Letchworth garden city di London (1905) dan welwyn garden city (1919). Disusul kota baru seperti Crawley, Hemel Hempstead, Harlow, Aycliffe, East Kilbride, Peterlee, dan Glenrothes.

VII. KOTA BARU MASA KINI
Kota baru ini, dimulai pada masa akhir Perang Dunia II, yaitu antara tahun 1948 – pertengahan dasawarsa 50-an. Kota baru jenis ini disebut kota baru generasi kedua atau Mark II New Town.

Kota-kota yang dikategorikan sebagai kota baru generasi kedua di Inggris yang dibangun antara tahun 1950-1955, seperti Corby dan Cumbernauld. Dibangun antara 1960-1970 seperti Skelmersdale, Livingstone, Telford, Redford, Redditch, Runcorn, Irvine, Milton, Keynes, Peterborough, Lancashire, Stonehouse. Di eropa, antara 1960-1970 terdapat beberapa kota baru di negeri Belanda seperti Beverwijk, Emmerloord, Emmen, Randstand, Almere, Zoetermer, di Finland seperti Topiola, di Perancis seperti Canteleu New Town, Mourenx, Surville, Toulouse Le Mirail, di Jerman seperti Cologne, New Chandigard (India), Islamabad (Pakistan). Di Amerika Latin seperti Brasilia (Brazil). Di Jepang seperti Hino, Yakaichi.

ARSITEKTUR MODERN

I. LATAR BELAKANG

Setelah perang dunia II, perkembangan jumlah penduduk, budaya dan teknologi sangat cepat, demikian pula perkembangan arsitektur modern. Arsitektur modern berkembang lebih jauh lagi dipelopori oleh para arsitek generasi berikut: teknologi konstruksi,bahan bangunan dan kebutuhan akan fasilitas ruang atau arsitektur dari masyarakat membuat perkembangan arsitektur modern sangat kompleks.

II. TOKOH-TOKOH ARSITEKTUR MODERN DAN KARYA-KARYANYA

II.1. Le Corbusier (1889-1965)

Konsep perencanaan Unite d’habitation yaitu permukiman dalam sebuah unit tunggal. Le Corbusier merancang Notre-Dame-du-Haut Ronchamp sebuah kapel(gereja Katolik kecil) pada tahun 1945 hingga ia meninggal. Dan pada tahun 1955 Le Corbusier merancang biara Dominikan La Touret,di Perancis. Salah satu karya akhir Le Corbusier sebelum meninggal yaitu Pusat seni rupa Kerajian Kayu(Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts) 1963 di Cambridge, Massachusetts Amerika Serikat.

Le Corbusier juga menghasilkan beberapa karya-karya di India, diantaranya pada tahun 1950 Le Corbusier menjadi pengawas dalam pembangunan Chandigardh yang merupakan ibu kota baru yang menggantikan ibu kota sebelumnya yaitu Lahore di Punjab. Dalam merancang kota Chandigardh Le corbusier membagi kelas jalan dalam tiga tingkat, saling berpotongan, tegak lurus satu dengan lainnya dan membentuk kotak-kotak seperti papan catur.

Adapun karya-karyanya yaitu :

• Merencanakan kota saint Die(Vosges) 1945 dan La Pallice (dekat La Rochelle) di Perancis,
• Menangani perumahan blok tunggal raksasa di Merseiles (1947-1952), kota pelabuhan di perancis bagian selatan,
• Dengan menerapkan konsep yang disebutnya Ville Radieuse “(kota bersinar)”.

II.2. Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)

Hasil karya Frank Lloyd Wright, yaitu :

• Tahun 1922-1955, membangun Price Tower di Oklahoma,
• Tahun 1952, membangun Wright’s house,
• Tahun 1942, terlibat dalam perancanaan dan pembangunan Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum di New York,
• Tahun 1957-1966, membangun Marine County Civic Center di San Raphael, California yang merupakan karya terakhirnya.

II.3. Hugo Alfar Henrik Aalto (1898-1976)

Pada awal abad XX, arsitektur modern berkembang pesat di skandinavia dengan seorang tokohnya Alfar Aalto. Karya-karyanya yaitu : Baker House, di Cambridge, Massachusetts, yaitu sebuah asrama untuk mahasiswa senior di M.I.T. Antara tahun 1950-1952, Aalto terlibat dalam perancangan dan pembangunan balai kota (Town Hall) Saynatsallo di Finlandia. Proyeknya yang sangat besar adalah kompleks Civic Center di Finlandia, terdiri dari gereja,balai kota, balai pertemuan dan perpustakaan. Aalto juga merancang Lecture theatre utama dari Finnish Institute of Technology, Otaniemi Helsinki, Finladia (1955-1964). Tahun 1958-1962 merancang gedung Pusat Kesenian (cultural Center) Walfsburg, Jerman. Tahun 1948 Aalto memenangkan sayembara perencanaan National Pension Bank, Helsinki, Finlandia. Tahun 1959-1962 merancang kantor Pusat Enso-Gutzeit Company di Helsinki, Finlandia

II.4. Eero Saarinen (1910-1961)

Eliel Saarinen adalah salah seorang tokoh arsitektur modern awal, kepeloporannya dalam arsitektur modern pertengahan abad ke XX dilanjutkan oleh anaknya Eero Saarinen. Eero Saarinen menghasilkan karya berupa General Motors Buildings di Detroit, Amerika Serikat(1951). Corak arsitektur Eero Saarinen tahun 50-an, mengacu pada fungsi ruang, kemudian dirancang suatu sistem struktur jauh lebih maju dari masa sebelumnya sehingga dimensi, bentuk dan besaran ruang yang dituntut oleh kebutuhan dapat tercapai.

II.5. Lucio Costa (1902) dan Oscar Nimeyer(1907)

Oscar Nimeyer adalah arsitek penganut modernisme terbesar di Brazilia, murid dari Lucio Costa dan pernah menjadi asisten dari Lecorbusier. Tahun 1956, sayembara perencanaan ibu kota Brazilia dimenangkan oleh Lucio Costa. Tahun !957 Nimeyer menjadi penanggung jawab dalam pembangunan gedung-gedung dan kompleks penting, antara lain Katedral, istana presidential Building, Supreme Court, Congress Building.

TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT

I. PENGERTIAN

Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) adalah suatu komunitas penggunaan campuran pada rata-rata jarak jalan kaki 2000 kaki dari suatu perhentian transit dengan area komersil inti. Ukuran TOD harus ditentukan berdasarkan kasus-ke-kasus. Rata-rata radius 2.000 kaki dimaksudkan untuk mempresentasikan suatu “jarak jalan kaki yang nyaman” (± 10 menit) bagi sebagian orang. Di beberapa lokasi, jarak jalan kaki yang nyaman dipengaruhi oleh topografi, iklim, arterial atau jalan-bebas yang saling terjalin, serta cirri-ciri fisik lainnya. Oleh karena itu, ukurannya akan lebih besar atau lebih kecil yang tergantung pada cirri-ciri tertentu.

II. URBAN TOD

Urban TOD ditempatkan secara langsung pada jaringan transit garis trunk: di light rail, heavy rail, atau perhentian bis expres. Itu semua seharusnya dibangun dengan intensitas komersial yang tinggi, kluster pekerjaan, dan kepadatan pemukiman yang moderat sampai yang tinggi.

Jika TOD Urban ditempatkan pada lingkungan maju yang sudah ada, maka lebih tepat menggunakan kepadatan dan campuran peruntukan penggunaan yang direkomendasikan melalui upya-upaya perencanaan local. TOD urban secara khusus ditempatakan kira-kira ½ hingga 1 mil guna memenuhi panduan pemberian ruang stasiun, meskipun tempat-tempat tersebut dapat dilokasikan bersama secara lebih dekat, sebagai perencanaan transit dan pemenuhan permintaan pasar.

III. DAERAH KOMERSIAL INTI

Inti perniagaan di pusat setiap TOD adalah hal esensial karena memungkingkan sebagian besar penduduk dan pekerja berjalan atau mengendarai sepeda bagi banyak barang-barang dan pelayanan dasar. Ini secara khusus menguntungkan bagi mereka yang tidak memiliki mobil dan orang-orang tang terbatas mobilitasnya.mereka yang masih memilih pergi ke took akan pergi pada sekian mil yang lebih singkat serta dapat menghindari menggunakan jalan arterial untuk perjalanan local. Area komersial inti juga menyediakan destinasi (tempat tujuan) penggunaan-campuran yang membuat penggunaan transit menjadi menarik.orang-orang lebih mudah menggunakan transit untuk pergi bekerja bila perhentian transit dikombinasikan dengan peluang-peluang retail dan pelayanan/jasa.

IV. DAERAH PEMUKIMAN

Daerah pemukiman TOD mencakup perumahan yang berada pada jarak jalan kaki yang nyaman dari daerah komersial inti dan perhentian transit. Kebutuhan pemukiman yang padat harus dipenuhi dengan suatu campuran tipe perumahan, seperti keluarga-tunggal kecil, townhome, kondominium, dan apartemen.

V. PENGGUNAAN PUBLIK

Penggunaan public diperluakan untuk melayani penduduk/residen dan para pekerja di TOD dan daerah-daerah sekitarnya. Tempat parkir, plasa, zona hijau, gedung-gedung public, dan pelayanan public dapat digunakan untuk mengisi kebutuhan tersebut. Parkir umum dan plasa kecil harus disediakan dalam memenuhi kebutuhan penduduk.

VI. AREA SEKUNDER

Setiap TOD memiliki area sekunder yang terletak tidak jauh dari satu mil dari area komersial inti. Jaringan jalan area sekunder harus menyediakan jalan langsung multiple serta koneksi sepeda ke perhentian transit serta area komersial inti, dengan tingkat minimal penyeberangan artesial. Area sekunder boleh jadi memiliki perumahan keluarga-tunggal dengan kepadatan lebih rendah, sekolah umum, parker masyarakat yang luas, penggunaan penghasil-pekerjaan intensitas yang rendah, dan lot parkir dan kendaraan.

Sumber: http://rikania09.multiply.com/

Here are some shots, there are more on my Flickr page, as usual.

"Our" House:

"Our" Street:

"Our" Back Yard:

Tel Aviv Street Art:

Small Synagogues:

Empty House:

The Metal Shutter Houses, designed by Shigeru Ban. This residential development is located in West Chelsea, New York. The Metal Shutter Houses consist of nine duplexes (spread over eleven floors) with motorized, perforated metal shutters that rise and fall separately. Aside from the "Wow!"-factor of living somewhere with huge metallic motorized shutters, they've got really nice interiors as well. The ground floor will host an art gallery as well as the lobby. This project marks Shigeru Ban's first endeavor into the US market. Currently, all but one of the units are already sold. The remaining unit can be yours for the miniscule price of $10million.

- Darryl

For the official website, click here.

On the Cover
CaixaForum, by Herzog & de Meuron.

Tales of Turning the Corner
How small design offices make the leap to larger -- or different -- work.

Glenstone residence and art museum, Maryland
Designing a private compound with a preeminent art collection.

Arabian Public Library, Arizona
A canyonlike building emerges among its bland exurban neighbors.

Miki Disaster Management Park Beans Dome, Japan
A convex emergency center-cum-tennis arena rises from the earth.

CaixaForum, Spain
Transforming an abandoned power station into a vibrant cultural center.

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Last weekend we hosted 2 more visitors from Seattle, so we had yet another opportunity to play the role of local tourists. Besides taking the Brosts to some of our favorite restaurants in Orange County (such as Wahoo's, Zov's, Memphis, and Celinda's), we spent an afternoon at Huntington Beach, and a day at the Getty. Along the way Marissa tried to teach the art of the "candid self-portrait." We had a great time... if we could only spend every weekend playing catch at the beach and wandering around a great piece of SoCAL contemporary architecture with some of our favorite people.

Enjoy!

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[[http://www.discoverys.net/Tiny%20Texas%20Houses.htm]]

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[[http://www.smallhousestyle.com/]]

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[[http://www.williamlishman.com/underground.htm]]

[[http://www.fabprefab.com/]]

[[http://www.m-house.org/]]

[[http://www.resourcesforlife.com/mobile-hermitage]]

[[http://www.atchintan.freeserve.co.uk/]]

[[http://www.daphnescaravans.com/index.htm]]

[[http://www.americanprofile.com/article/20947.html]]

[[http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/01/modular_homes]]

[[http://www.domeincorporated.com/]]

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I must admit that I am not an expert, in any way, in architecture! That said, I believe this to have at least some elements of Greek Revival, and was probably built just prior to the civil war. The bricks are made from our local red clay in Lynchburg, Virginia.

It would please me to no end if someone schooled in architecture would enlighten me on anything I have wrong during this project.

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There is a big antagonism of the modern interpretation by the artist against the need to restore the grille to an unknown "historical state" and the artist's attempt to create authenticity will be lost on the causal tourist and transparent to the discerning lover of architecture. It is a shame.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/2686/sanchi_stupa.htm

According to sacred tradition architecture and town planning experienced a period of greatness during the third century B.C. under the patronage of Ashoka, the first Buddhist emperor, but their glory is imperfectly reflected in very few archeological finds. All the monuments were built of wood and clay: the wood rotted away, the clay crumbled from the force of the annual monsoon, the decoration of gold and precious stones fell into the hands of conquerors.

However, some burrial mounds, whose external hemispherical forms were built of baked clay, have withstood the passage of centuries. For the Buddhist monks the shape of the Buddha's burial or relic mound became the symbol of his teaching. At the sacred places of India they built a countless number of these stupas in brick or stone. In the monastery compound of Sanchi a brick stupa dating from the reign of Ashoka was expanded in the second century A.C. Taking over an old Aryan custom of surrounding sacred enclousers with a fence, the Buddhists surrounded the new stone stupa with a splendid stone railinig. The stupa, originally a monument over the relics of the Buddha or of a saint, acquired a second meaning. It became a geometric image of Buddhist cosmology, oriented as precisely as possible towards the four cardinal points and with its measurements based on numerical symbolism. The most important motifs were the circle and the sphere, i.e. rounded forms symbolizing rotation.

"Living Architecture: Indian" by Andreas Volwahsen

It's always exciting when other people take into account the hard work you and your team put out on a daily basis and rank you among the best of the best. At Inhabitat, we reached that ranking twice in the YAMoPo 2008 polls for architecture and architecture related sites.

Taken from ArchDaily: link to the original article after the jump...

We are architects, and during the last few years we have been reading and commenting on several architectural websites. As many of you do, we love to watch, learn and discuss about architecture online, with people from around the world. One day we decided to put all these sites together to get the whole picture on architectural sites, and then order them according to our likings. But in the meanwhile, we noticed it wasn’t that easy, because each one of us had different interests and approaches. In our listings, several sites were repeated, but in different places.

So, we decided to find a way to make a standardized procedure to rank and order these sites. Then we noticed Michiel van Raaij at Eikonographia repeated the ranking he started in 2007, the MoPo (Most Popular Architectural Blogs). Although Michiel did a very accurate job, he restricted it to English blogs from individual authors, leaving out several of our favorite blogs from either foreign languages or multiple authors, and some other sitess that mix architecture with other related subjects (design, sustainability, trends, etc).

To expand this rank, we decided to put together some common criteria. The most logical criteria should be the amount of visitors, but this is almost impossible since most sites don’t publish these stats. But there are some other factors you can use to measure the relevance of a website: (a) Rank of websites based on an estimate of their traffic, by Alexa, (b) Google Page Rank and (c) and the frequency of the updates, an average of the entries published in the last 2 months (done by us). That´s how we came up with YAMoPo (Yet Another MoPo).

With all this data, we started to compare our sites listings, and given their focus we decided to (1) shorten the list to the top 40 (after those, most sites don´t update much often) and (2) separate this listing in 2 types of sites: sites devoted to architecture only and sites that mix architecture with other subjects (trends, design, sustainability).

3 Conclusions

1. It´s clear that architecture exclusive sites are less popular than the ones that cover architecture, trends and design.
2. Most of the websites are in English (same as almost the whole Internet).
3. The frequency of updates is highly valued by visitors, which explain us why our blog isn´t at the end of the ranks despite being started a couple of months ago. Sites that have a better rank update frequently, even several times at a day.

During the next weeks we will present and explain some of these websites, in order to clarify the new panorama of architecture publications on the Web.

Also, as we found out that MoPo wasn´t accurate from our point of view, some of you might think the same about ours, so feel free to leave your comments and recommended sites.

And now, to the ranks:

Architecture only

1. Archinect
2. World Architecture News
3. E-Architect
4. Plataforma Arquitectura
5. Architecture MNP
6. BldgBlog
7. Eikongraphia
8. Architonic
9. ArchiDose
10. Noticias Arquitectura
11. Mirage Studio 7
12. World Architects
13. Archdaily
14. Building Design
15. Pruned
16. MyarchN
17. Arqa
18. Interactive Architecture
19. World Architecture Community
20. Things Magazine
21. anArchitecture
22. The Architecture Room
23. Life Without Buildings
24. Death by Architecture
25. Subtopia

Architecture and related

1. Inhabitat
2. Mocoloco
3. Dezeen
4. Notcot
5. The Coolhunter
6. Dwell Blog
7. World Changing
8. Materialicious
9. Edgar Gonzalez
10. Below the Clouds
11. Dezain
12. City of Sound
13. Dezona
14. Tropolism
15. Arkinetia Blog

Overall (Arch only + Arch & related)

1. Inhabitat
2. Mocoloco
3. Dezeen
4. Notcot
5. Archinect
6. The Coolhunter
7. World Architecture News
8. Dwell Blog
9. World Changing
10. E-Architect
11. Plataforma Arquitectura
12. Materialicious
13. Architecture MNP
14. BldgBlog
15. Eikongraphia
16. Edgar Gonzalez
17. Architonic
18. Below the Clouds
19. ArchiDose
20. Noticias Arquitectura
21. Mirage Studio 7
22. World Architects
23. Dezain
24. Archdaily
25. City of Sound
26. Building Design
27. Pruned
28. MyarchN
29. Dezona
30. Arqa
31. Interactive Architecture
32. Tropolism
33. Arkinetia Blog
34. World Architecture Community
35. Things Magazine
36. anArchitecture
37. The Architecture Room
38. Life Without Buildings
39. Death by Architecture
40. Subtopia

Comments? Sugestions? Rants?

The original article can be found here: http://www.archdaily.com/3504/yamopo-2008-yet-another-most-popular-architecture-blog-ranking/

Secreted away inside  a walled downtown Portland city block, the Classical Chinese Gardens is one of my favorite jaunts.