Koetter Kim & Associates - Hardcover

Rizzoli

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847820505 ISBN 13: 9780847820504

Publisher: Rizzoli, 1997

Synopsis

Koetter Kim's award-winning architecture, master plans, and urban design have revitalized places as diverse as London's docklands and wharves, inner-city Boston, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon); Chattanooga, Tennessee; and the Asbury Park waterfront in New Jersey. Founded in 1978 by Fred Koetter and Susie Kim, the firm is preeminent in the planning movement known as new urbanism, which seeks to enhance the sense of place, historical context, and cultural continuity in the city. Koetter Kim has also won praise for its sensitive design of dozens of campus and office buildings.

This first monograph on the firm presents 32 urban and campus projects in detail, with photographs, plans, and matrix diagrams explaining Koetter Kim's component-based design process. Among the works included are Canary Wharf in London, the Boston Plan and University Park master plan in Boston, and projects in Edinburgh, Seattle, and San Juan, Puerto Rico; and for Princeton, Syracuse, and Puerto Rico universities, Plymouth State College, and Sarah Lawrence College. Essays by distinguished critics examine Koetter Kim's strategies and the firm's approach to the forces of urban change and global economics that affect today's cities.

About this title

About the Author:

Alan J. Plattus is Associate Dean and Director of Graduate Studies at the Yale University School of Architecture. He lectures and writes frequently on the history of cities and contemporary architecture and theory. Colin Rowe is a renowned architecture historian; he co-authored the seminal book Collage City (1979) with Fred Koetter, co-principal of Koetter Kim & Associates and Dean of the Yale School of Architecture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rizzoli
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0847820505
• ISBN 13: 9780847820504
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 222