Overview
- New volume in the RIEA Concepts Series
- With a foreword by Lebbeus Woods and Guy Lafranchi
- Urban terrain and parametrical design
Part of the book series: RIEAeuropa Concepts Series (RIEACS)
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About this book
PARKitectOUR, is a book which documents the three student workshops held in Italy and Switzerland by the University Of Applied Sciences of Bern. The task was to show Parkour and architecture within urban projects.
Parkour is a new sport that was created in the suburbs of Paris. A ‘Traceur’ (the runner) moves smoothly, acrobatically and quickly through impenetrable, typically urban terrain. The Traceurs motion creates the "urban free flow." This urban free flow is what the students had to trace in their designs.
This was completed along with urban planning tasks in the surroundings of a Luigi Nervi building in Turin. The workshop was organized in cooperation with the Politecnico di Torino. The other two workshops are part of the freshman curriculum at the university where Guy Lafranchi is the dean of studies of the architecture department.
About the authors
LEBBEUS WOODS, born in 1940, trained Architect, worked for Eero Saarinen (1964-1968). Theory and experimental projects since 1976. Founder and Scientific Director of the Research Institute of experimental Architecture, Europe (RIEA Europe). Has been a visiting Professor of Architecture at the Cooper Union, SCI-Arc, Harvard and Columbia Universities.
GUY LAFRANCHI, born in 1966, trained Architect (ETH Zürich). He founded his own studio in Bern. Held lectures on his work at the Barlett School of Architecture, London and The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI), Rotterdam. Member of RIEA Europe. Dean Department for Architecture at the University of Applied Sciences, Bern.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: PARKitectOUR
Book Subtitle: From Urban Free Flow to Architecture
Editors: Guy Lafranchi
Series Title: RIEAeuropa Concepts Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-99184-8
Publisher: Springer Vienna
eBook Packages: Architecture and Design, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Vienna 2009
Series ISSN: 1610-0719
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 84
Topics: Architects, Building Types and Functions