Site Matters FROM THE PUBLISHER
Carol Burns has been a member of the faculty at the Harvard Design School for twelve years. She is currently a visiting Associate Professor at MIT. She is also a principal at Taylor and Burns Architects in Boston, and a Housing Fellow at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. Her work has been published in Landscape Architecture, Journal of Architecture and Planning Research, Perspecta, and collected anthologies ubckydubg Drawing/Building/Text and Thinking the Present.
Andrea Kahn is an Adjunt Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia University and has lectured at many other universities across the world. Along with publishing many articles, she is the co-editor of Drawing/Building/Text: Essays in Architectural Theory and Criticism.
SYNOPSIS
Site Matters is the first comprehensive theoretical treatment of a crucial concept in urban design, planning, and architecture DS "site." The way that planners and designers have dealt with the term over the years has changed dramatically, yet little has been written on it. Initially, it simply referred the actual physical area in which a building was erected or a delimited space planned. Over the past century, though, it has gradually become a much more complicated concept, referring on occasion to the immediate surroundings of a parcel and on other occasions as part of a broader geographical complex in which different sectors interact with each other. And most recently, the site has come to be understood as a component of broader ecosystems, where the site and the broader system work upon each other. Bringing together some of the leading lights in the design and planning field, Site Matters will be essential for today's planners, designers, and architects, all of whom
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