Site and Composition examines design strategies and tactics in site making. It is concerned with the need for a renewed understanding of the site in the twenty-first century and the need for a critical position regarding the continued tendency to view the site as an isolated lsquo;fragmentrsquo; severed from its wider context. The book argues revisiting the traditional instruments or means of both siting and composition in Architecture to explore their true potential in achieving connections between site and context. Through the various examples studied here it is suggested that such instrumental means have the potential for achieving greater poetic outcomes. The book focuses on the works of twentieth century architects of wide-ranging persuasion ndash; Peter Eisenman; Le Corbusier; Frank Lloyd Wright; Alvaro Siza; Herzog and de Meuron; and Charles Correa; for example ndash; who have strived in quite different ways to achieve deeper engagement with the physical qualities of place and context. Departing from a reconsideration of the fragment; Site and Composition emphasises the role of the lsquo;positive fragmentrsquo; in achieving both historical continuity and renewed wholeness. The potential of both planimetric and sectional compositional methods are explored; emphasising the importance of reciprocity between lsquo;insidersquo; and lsquo;outsidersquo; ndash; between fragment and the whole; as well as materiality. Written in a clear and accessible manner; this book makes vital reading for both researchers and students of architecture and urbanism.
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