Author: Dahinden, Justus [1925- 2020]
Title: Stadtstrukturen für morgen : Analysen, Thesen, Modelle
Description: Teufen (AR), Schweiz, Veerlar Arthur Niggli, (1971). orig. cloth, dustwrapper.. 26x22cm, 219 pages. Weighs 1 kilo.. A small dustwrapper tear. Some spotting to top page-edge. Good. ¶ ["Dahinden ... a Swiss architect, teacher and writer about architecture. Dahinden influenced the field of architecture with ideas which have resulted in numerous suggestions and impulses. The centre of Dahinden's philosophy of the holistic nature of architecture is that it is a service to the human being. It is equally important to man as a physical and as a mental reality. In architecture the rational fulfilling of needs has to be complemented by taking into consideration the emotional world of the human being, whose state of mind and behavior are fundamentally influenced by architectural design. To Dahinden architecture as a language is of equal importance to architecture as a function. From this he has developed a very individual theory about contextualism in architecture. Dahinden saw architecture as creation and evolution in the "law of the three" ("Das Gesetz der Drei"), and in doing so he provides a basis for regaining quality in architecture. His architectural architecture for non-integrated leisure time is contrasted with handling architecture for integrated leisure time. This contrast results in town-planning utopias. International relevance was given by the 1984 International Conference " Man and Space" at Vienna University of Technology with Bruno Zevi, Dennis Sharp, Pierre Vago, Jorge Glusberg, Otto Kapfinger, Frei Otto, Paolo Soleri, Ernst Gisel, Ionel Schein and others...." - wikipedia].

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