Le Corbusier’s Towards a New Architecture is usually read as a manifesto promoting an engineering approach to architecture that is also a “limpid and impressive plastic fact”. Yet its complexity allows for further interpretations, including the neglected perspective of architecture’s relation to the landscape. The text contains numerous statements on the building-landscape relationship, urban planning […]
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Replacing a River Canal with an Urban Highway: The “Gottwaldova Street” Ring Road in Košice as a Historical Urban Design Mistake from the 1960s
Until the1960s, the east Slovak city of Košice displayed a ring road system, largely inspired by the models of Vienna and Budapest. During the 19th century, local city planners respected the natural interaction between the densely built-up structure and its adjacent recreational area to the east, consisting of the river canal, called the Millrace [Mlynský […]