Klaske Havik

Literature offers valuable insights into how people experience, use and imagine places. In an accessible yet scientifically underpinned manner, Urban Literacy offers new methods for reading and writing all sorts of places, from architecture to urban space. The literary approach in this book stems from criticism of a lack of attention for the above-mentioned aspects in the architectural and urban planning debate: experiencing, using and imagining. This book brings together a variety of disciplines and theoretical approaches by means of three literary concepts: description, transcription and prescription. It translates them into the domain of architecture and urban planning, among other things through analyses of the work of Steven Holl, Bernard Tschumi and Rem Koolhaas.

Reading and Writing Architecture

Urban Literacy

Christoph Grafe

Madeleine Maaskant

Over its more than 20 years in print, "OASE" has evolved into a reflective, critical journal, an excellent venue for the theme of this, its seventieth issue, "Architecture and Literature." A favorable economic and political climate encourages single-minded designing and building, as the 'SuperDutch' phenomenon has in "OASE"'s native Netherlands, but "OASE"'s editors suggest that a boom is exactly the time to look for new perspectives and approaches in literary reflection, to seek encounters between artistic disciplines, to see what reciprocal exchange might offer to architectural practice. "OASE 70" discusses the (auto-)biographical novel, in which highly personal descriptions and narratives challenge us to look at architecture in a different way, and at what literary reflection can represent for architectural practice.

Architecture & Literature Reflections/imaginations

Tom Avermaete

Hans Teerds

Architecture, Modernity and the Public Sphere

Architectural Positions

Susana Oliveira

Mike Schfer.

Mark Proosten

Writingplacemarks an emerging discussion on the relationship of literature and architecture. The book, which grows out of an online platform of the same name, offers reflections on the role played by written language as a crucial element of architecture culture, and on the potential of using literary methods in architectural and urban research, education and design. For readers interested in the transdisciplinary encounters between architecture and literature, this volume offers both theoretical contributions that address concepts such as narrative and literary imagination, and contemporary explorations regarding the practical operability of literary approaches. Writingplaceincludes contributions by international experts approaching this developing field from both literary and architectural backgrounds, including Bart Keunen, Alberto P�rez-G�mez, Wim van den Bergh, Klaske Havik, Katja Grillner and Wim Cuyvers.

Writingplace: Investigations in Architecture and Literature

Klaske Havik

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