The Introduction to Urban

Composition
Introductory Course
Lecture 1

The concept of imageability
The importance of enclosure for organisation of
space
Recommended Readings
Jan Gehl Life between buildings
Gordon Cullen Concise Townscape
Obligatory: Kevin Lynch Image of the City
Kazimierz Wejchert Elementy kompozycji
urbanistycznej

Moreover: M. Carmona et al: Public
Spaces, Urban Places
The importance of enclosure for organisation of space
Yoshinobu Ashihara, Gaibu Kukan no Kosei (Exterior Space in Architecture ) Tokyo 1962
za Aleksander Bhm "Wn"trze" w kompozycji krajobrazu : wybrane elementy genezy analizy porwnawczej i zastosowa# poj"cia Krakw 2004
Yoshinobu Ashihara, Gaibu Kukan no Kosei (Exterior Space in Architecture ) Tokyo 1962
za Aleksander Bhm "Wn"trze" w kompozycji krajobrazu : wybrane elementy genezy analizy porwnawczej i zastosowa# poj"cia Krakw 2004
The elements of an interior: ceiling, wall, floor
Yoshinobu Ashihara, Gaibu Kukan no Kosei (Exterior Space in Architecture ) Tokyo 1962
za Aleksander Bhm "Wn"trze" w kompozycji krajobrazu : wybrane elementy genezy analizy porwnawczej i zastosowa# poj"cia Krakw 2004
Negative (1.) and positive (2.) spaces
Ch. Alexander, S.Ishikawa, M. Silverstein, A Pattern Language New York 1977
J.L. Moltoch, Introduction to Landscape Design New York 2000
The concept of interior : a) inside ;
b) outside; c) interior and the
landscape outside
a)
b)
c)
Gordon Cullen, The Concise Townscape 1961
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Yoshinobu Ashihara, Gaibu Kukan no Kosei (Exterior Space in Architecture ) Tokyo 1962
za Aleksander Bhm "Wn"trze" w kompozycji krajobrazu : wybrane elementy genezy analizy porwnawczej i zastosowa# poj"cia Krakw 2004
Different ways to define the interior edges
Gordon Cullen, The Concise Townscape 1961
The hierarchy and the sequence of closures
Yoshinobu Ashihara, Gaibu Kukan no Kosei (Exterior Space in Architecture ) Tokyo 1962
za Aleksander Bhm "Wn"trze" w kompozycji krajobrazu : wybrane elementy genezy analizy porwnawczej i zastosowa# poj"cia Krakw 2004
Camillo Sitte City PlanningAccording to Artistic Principles1889
Agora of Athens
Wac%aw Ostrowski Wprowadzenie do historii budowy miast Warszawa 1996
Camillo Sitte City PlanningAccording to Artistic
Principles1889
Camillo Sitte City PlanningAccording to Artistic
Principles1889
Forum Romanum
Wac%aw Ostrowski Wprowadzenie do historii budowy miast Warszawa 1996
Camillo Sitte City PlanningAccording to Artistic
Principles1889
Camillo Sitte City PlanningAccording to Artistic
Principles1889
Piazza Sordello
Camillo Sitte City PlanningAccording to Artistic
Principles1889
Camillo Sitte City PlanningAccording to Artistic
Principles1889
Camillo Sitte City PlanningAccording to Artistic
Principles1889
Camillo Sitte City PlanningAccording to Artistic
Principles1889
Camillo Sitte City PlanningAccording to Artistic
Principles1889
Camillo Sitte City PlanningAccording to Artistic
Principles1889
Camillo Sitte City PlanningAccording to Artistic
Principles1889
Camillo Sitte City PlanningAccording to Artistic
Principles1889
Camillo Sitte City PlanningAccording to Artistic
Principles1889
Camillo Sitte City PlanningAccording to Artistic
Principles1889
Camillo Sitte City PlanningAccording to Artistic
Principles1889
Camillo Sitte City PlanningAccording to Artistic
Principles1889
Camillo Sitte City PlanningAccording to Artistic
Principles1889
J.L. Moltoch, Introduction to Landscape Design New York 2000
Kazimierz Wejchert. Elementy Kompozycji Urbanistycznej Warszawa
1997
convex and concave spaces/
volumes
Ch. Alexander, S.Ishikawa, M. Silverstein, A Pattern Language New York 1977
central angle definition
Kazimierz Wejchert. Miasteczko polskie jako zagadnienie
urbanistyczne1957
The effect of hight and distance for perception
Yoshinobu Ashihara, Gaibu Kukan no Kosei (Exterior Space in Architecture ) Tokyo 1962
za Aleksander Bhm "Wn"trze" w kompozycji krajobrazu : wybrane elementy genezy analizy porwnawczej i zastosowa# poj"cia Krakw 2004
Yoshinobu Ashihara, Gaibu Kukan no Kosei (Exterior Space in Architecture ) Tokyo 1962
za Aleksander Bhm "Wn"trze" w kompozycji krajobrazu : wybrane elementy genezy analizy porwnawczej i zastosowa# poj"cia Krakw 2004
Various types of openings: a. narrow
(fricative), b. neutral, c. large
1. large landscape, 2. architectural,
neutral, agressive, 3. fricative, 4.
closing, narrow, 5. directional
The example sequences of views of the same composition from different points of view
Gordon Cullen, The Concise Townscape 1961