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Architecture as City

Saemangeum Island City

Authors:

  1. Florian Beigel

    1. Architecture Research Unit, London

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  2. Philip Christou

    1. Architecture Research Unit, London

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  • Awarded land-use study for a land reclamation urban design project to be built behind the world’s longest sea wall (34 km), constructed in 2007
  • Part of the main exhibition "People Meet in Architecture" of the 12th International Architecture Biennale in Venice 29.08 - 21.11.2010
  • The design is a collage and translation of a catalogue of well proven and adaptable city structures/urban block types from around the world

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-9
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 10-10
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    2. Architecture as City

      • Florian Beigel, Philip Christou
      Pages 11-13

    3. The Photographs of Kang Woon-Gu

      • Florian Beigel, Philip Christou
      Pages 14-21

    4. Saemangeum Island City — a City Close to Life

      • Florian Beigel, Philip Christou
      Pages 22-29

    5. The Saemangeum Project

      • Florian Beigel, Philip Christou
      Pages 30-50

  3. Design Concepts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
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    2. A Sense of Time

      • Florian Beigel, Philip Christou
      Pages 52-53

    3. The Poetry of the Natural and the Artificial

      • Florian Beigel, Philip Christou
      Pages 54-55

    4. Island Experience

      • Florian Beigel, Philip Christou
      Pages 56-57

    5. A City of Civility

      • Florian Beigel, Philip Christou
      Pages 58-59

    6. A City of Co-Existence

      • Florian Beigel, Philip Christou
      Pages 60-61

    7. A City Without Sprawl

      • Florian Beigel, Philip Christou
      Pages 62-64

  4. Designing the City

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. A Landscape Infrastructure of Islands

      • Florian Beigel, Philip Christou
      Pages 66-67

    3. Island Making: A Sketch Book Urban Block Islands

      • Florian Beigel, Philip Christou
      Pages 68-85

    4. City Structures

      • Florian Beigel, Philip Christou
      Pages 86-117

    5. Locating Programmes Within the City Structures

      • Florian Beigel, Philip Christou
      Pages 118-123

    6. City Magnets

      • Florian Beigel, Philip Christou
      Pages 124-141

    7. A Conversation with Florian Beigel and Philip Christou

      • Florian Beigel, Philip Christou
      Pages 142-149
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About this book

Book by Florian Beigel and Philip Christou, with contributions by Dominique Boudet (Consultant Editor), photo essay by Kang Woon-gu, and conversation with Ellis Woodman. Florian Beigel and the Architecture Research Unit were invited by the Provincial Government of Jeollabukdo, Korea in 2008, along with seven other teams to participate in an international ideas competition to develop urban design proposals for the Saemangeum land reclamation project. Saemangeum Island City comprises a surface area of some 400 km², more than a quater of the area of Greater London (which is approx. 1.570 km²). In late 2008, the design project by ARU / London Metropolitan University was declared one of three winning competition proposals (along with Columbia University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Kazuyo Sejima, Director of the 12th Architecture Biennale, has selected the ARU project to be part of the main exhibition in Venice 2010. The urban land-use concept plan begins with a phased landscape infrastructure design of 8 new islands with a highly remarkable solution as to environmental issues. This book offers a unique and timely approach to contemporary urban design research and practice.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Architecture Research Unit, London

    Florian Beigel, Philip Christou

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About the authors

Florian Beigel was born in 1941 in Germany. Diploma in Architecture at Stuttgart University 1968, Master degree at University College in London 1969. As of 1970, own architecture office in London. Professor for Architecture and Director of the Architecture Research Unit at the Department for Architecture and Spatial Design, London Metropolitan University. Philip Christou was born in 1956 in Canada. Lives and works in the UK since 1980. Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Fine Art degrees University of Lethbridge, Alberta, and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada. Studied architecture at the Architectural Association, London. Research Fellow in the Architecture Research Unit, London Metropolitan University, working with Florian Beigel since1985.
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Architecture as City

  • Book Subtitle: Saemangeum Island City

  • Authors: Florian Beigel, Philip Christou

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0368-5

  • Publisher: Springer Vienna

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag / Wien 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 152

  • Number of Illustrations: 150 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Urbanism, Interior Architecture and Design, Building Types and Functions

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