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Code manipulation : architecture in-between universal and specific urban space, by Per-Johan Dahl, (electronic resource)

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Experiences from both academia and practice demonstrate that the legal instruments that comprise the primary tool for carrying out city planning in the U.S. have grown increasingly complex and abstract. Processing the universal rather than the specific aspects of urbanism, these zoning codes have a limited capacity to adapt to local significance and site-specific characteristics, to which architecture is much more responsive, and thus often constrain design innovation. Although various attempts have been made to improve the interconnection between the universal and the specific, we need a wider array of analytic frameworks within the discipline of architecture for evaluating the broader implications of the codes that regulate the form and use of buildings within the context of contemporary city planning. Taking architecture as an intermediary instrument, this study develops the notion of code manipulation as an analytical framework to be used for stimulating and evaluating designs beyond the constraints of code. Investigation of three housing projects, and the urban contexts from which they arise, expands our understanding of how the manipulation of zoning codes can be used as a generative material for the design of architecture, as well as how this procedure can both advance the production of disciplinary knowledge, and catalyse urban transformation. A loft conversion in Greenwich Village (1967-1970); an accessory dwelling unit in Venice, California (2006-2009); and a real estate development along the High Line in New York City (2005-2011) represent diverse attempts to employ code manipulation to mediate between the universal and the specific aspects of urbanism, while, at the same time, informing the making of cities through innovative design. Comparative analysis reveals how architects can explore solutions in opposition to zoning provision, and how code manipulation can serve to inform policy makers about lucrative potentials and tendencies being repressed by their own rules. Demonstrating a range of outcomes strengthens the argument that conventional zoning controls hamper architectural responses to the shifting premises of urban life. Seeking to reinforce architecture's role in the making of cities, this research explicates the potentials of code manipulation to establish new interconnections between universal and specific urban space
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xv, 336 p.)
Note
  • Vita
  • Advisor: Dana Cuff; committee members: Neil M. Denari, Sylvia Lavin, and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
  • Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Oct. 8, 2012)
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http://search.proquest.com/pqdtlocal1005845/docview/1025744272/abstract/139A81873D11FE32BF1/1?accountid=14512
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Code manipulation : architecture in-between universal and specific urban space
Title
Code manipulation
Title remainder
architecture in-between universal and specific urban space
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by Per-Johan Dahl
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Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Experiences from both academia and practice demonstrate that the legal instruments that comprise the primary tool for carrying out city planning in the U.S. have grown increasingly complex and abstract. Processing the universal rather than the specific aspects of urbanism, these zoning codes have a limited capacity to adapt to local significance and site-specific characteristics, to which architecture is much more responsive, and thus often constrain design innovation. Although various attempts have been made to improve the interconnection between the universal and the specific, we need a wider array of analytic frameworks within the discipline of architecture for evaluating the broader implications of the codes that regulate the form and use of buildings within the context of contemporary city planning. Taking architecture as an intermediary instrument, this study develops the notion of code manipulation as an analytical framework to be used for stimulating and evaluating designs beyond the constraints of code. Investigation of three housing projects, and the urban contexts from which they arise, expands our understanding of how the manipulation of zoning codes can be used as a generative material for the design of architecture, as well as how this procedure can both advance the production of disciplinary knowledge, and catalyse urban transformation. A loft conversion in Greenwich Village (1967-1970); an accessory dwelling unit in Venice, California (2006-2009); and a real estate development along the High Line in New York City (2005-2011) represent diverse attempts to employ code manipulation to mediate between the universal and the specific aspects of urbanism, while, at the same time, informing the making of cities through innovative design. Comparative analysis reveals how architects can explore solutions in opposition to zoning provision, and how code manipulation can serve to inform policy makers about lucrative potentials and tendencies being repressed by their own rules. Demonstrating a range of outcomes strengthens the argument that conventional zoning controls hamper architectural responses to the shifting premises of urban life. Seeking to reinforce architecture's role in the making of cities, this research explicates the potentials of code manipulation to establish new interconnections between universal and specific urban space
Cataloging source
CLU
Dissertation note
Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2012.
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
  • plans
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
  • theses
Label
Code manipulation : architecture in-between universal and specific urban space, by Per-Johan Dahl, (electronic resource)
Link
http://search.proquest.com/pqdtlocal1005845/docview/1025744272/abstract/139A81873D11FE32BF1/1?accountid=14512
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Publication
Note
  • Vita
  • Advisor: Dana Cuff; committee members: Neil M. Denari, Sylvia Lavin, and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
  • Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Oct. 8, 2012)
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-336)
Color
multicolored
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xv, 336 p.)
Form of item
online
Other physical details
ill. (chiefly col.), plans, maps
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
  • (OCoLC)825121833
  • ucoclc825121833
Label
Code manipulation : architecture in-between universal and specific urban space, by Per-Johan Dahl, (electronic resource)
Link
http://search.proquest.com/pqdtlocal1005845/docview/1025744272/abstract/139A81873D11FE32BF1/1?accountid=14512
Publication
Note
  • Vita
  • Advisor: Dana Cuff; committee members: Neil M. Denari, Sylvia Lavin, and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
  • Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Oct. 8, 2012)
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-336)
Color
multicolored
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xv, 336 p.)
Form of item
online
Other physical details
ill. (chiefly col.), plans, maps
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
  • (OCoLC)825121833
  • ucoclc825121833

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