ARTH 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ville Radieuse, Le Corbusier, Public Sphere
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Lecture # 4 - architecture, modernity and the public sphere tom avermaete. Hannah arendt the human condition: it means, first, that everything that appears in public can be seen and heard by evertybody and has the widest possible pulicity. Jorgen habermass the bougeois public sphere may be conceived above all als the sphere of private people come together as public. Richard sennet not only a region of soical life located apart from the realm of family and close friends, but also that this public realm of acquaintances and the strangers included relaively wide diversity of people: Realm of- hetereogeneity/diversity - anonimity articulating, accommodating ,representingpublic sphere = matterof architects and urban designers. Haussmann (1853-70) = introducing the urban boulevard, new idea of public sphere. Le corbusier, ville radieuse (1930) = against the bourgeois public sphere, public space as a continuous landscape. Landscape becomes carscape 1960acritisism of new concepts of public space.
