Reading the Site: Architectural Design in the Periphery of Urban Areas

The design of buildings located in areas that surround the central core of cities is becoming, as we approach the end of the twentieth century, one of the most critical problems for architecture and its related disciplines. The design studio is an appropriate environment for developing strategies and tools focused on the architectural and urbanistic implications of working in peripheral areas. This has been the dominant thematic of recent design exercises developed in design studios at the University of Illinois’ Study Abroad Program in Versailles. This paper presents the theoretical frame of reference and some recent examples produced in these design studios.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.Intl.1995.62

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