Lecture date: 2011-11-03
With Colin Fournier, The Bartlett; Michael Weinstock, AA; Paola Vigano, Venice IAUV Urban Design Programme; Shin Egashira, AA
The evening will begin with Shane’s short outline of the arguments of Urban Design Since 1945, tracing 4 models through the period and across the globe; the metropolis, the megalopolis, the fragmented metropolis and informational megacity/metacity. Guests invited by Grahame Shane will further evaluate themes from the book’s structure; including architectural and urban theories, ecological and emergent developments, global urban histories and morphologies, contemporary urban design trends, bottom-up as well as top-down. There will be time for discussion.
Grahame Shane graduated from the AA in 1969, studied for an MArch (Urban Design, 1972) and PhD (Architectural and Urban History 1978) at Cornell University with Colin Rowe. He began teaching at the AA as a First Year Unit Master 1972–76; since 1985 he has taught at Columbia University and Cooper Union, New York, specialising in Urban Design since 1990. He published Recombinant Urbanism in 2005.
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