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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jon Michael ScwartingPublisher: Oro Editions Imprint: Oro Editions ISBN: 9781939621702ISBN 10: 1939621704 Pages: 180 Publication Date: 01 May 2017 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsInfluenced by Rowe's vision, the author collects historical, analytical and graphical data derived from these elaborate studies on the city of Rome, which is seen as a perfect case study to comprehend and demonstrate how urban formation, transformation and architecture in general are in a critical relationship with the concepts of the ideal, the utopian and the physical reality. The book is simple in structure, well illustrated with a number of black and white maps and line sketches. --Landscape+Urbanism """Influenced by Rowe's vision, the author collects historical, analytical and graphical data derived from these elaborate studies on the city of Rome, which is seen as a perfect case study to comprehend and demonstrate how urban formation, transformation and architecture in general are in a critical relationship with the concepts of the ideal, the utopian and the physical reality."" ""The book is simple in structure, well illustrated with a number of black and white maps and line sketches.""--Landscape+Urbanism" Author InformationJon Michael Schwarting is an architect, urban designer and professor. He has a B.Arch. and M.Arch in Urban Design from Cornell University and received a Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome. He is a Professor of Architecture and has been Director of the graduate program of Urban and Regional Design at New York Institute of Technology. He has also taught at Columbia, Yale, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Cooper Union, Syracuse and the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies. He has lectured on his work and on architectural, history, theory and issues at numerous institutions. He was an Associate at Richard Meier and Associates and has had a Practice with partners since 1975, and presently, at Campani and Schwarting Architects. His work has been exhibited and published internationally in journals and books. His projects have receive LI AIA ARCHI awards and a PA Citation. He has been recognized and placed in several architectural competitions, and has directed the restoration of the 1931 Alumianaire House since 1987. He has published articles on architecture and architectural theory in Domus, Harvard Review, VIA, Modulus, Precis and ACSA, and has received private and public grants from the Graham Foundation, NEA, NYSCA and NYS P&HP. Michael has served on the Board of the Architectural League of NYC, Van Alan Institute and is Trustee Emeritus of the American Academy in Rome. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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