Camilla Sitte Case Study

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Assignment 1

Camilla Sitte is an Austrian city Planner and Architect. He had a great influences on the development of the urban construction , regulation on Europe. Sitte work demonstrates his understand of what he considered important in designing and how the language of a building should be greatly influed by the space in which to observe the building as they were intended to be apprepicated. His set rules to a successful modern planning always ensured that you enclose the public space in such a way as to restrict view out so the the façade of the building act like the backdrop and building is placed openly so it can be viewed from different angles.

Sitte Design consisted of the arrangement of Space used in a sequence of pattern.
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Nomadic town is a town that has the ability to shift and move to suit the need of the residence. Ensuring that everything within the town are temporary structure that can move and shift to meet the desired growth of the town.
The assignment is all about trying to create routes and connection throughout the town. I started to indetify which area that predominatly be consumed with a large group and from that start to mark those areas and then overlaid different routes and connection for them. I found this assignment a little difficult mainly due to a lack of understanding of the text and just my ability to comprehend the theory on the nomadic town in comparison to modern city to date.

Assignment 4

Ciam 1-10 focus was to create an Avante-Garde within the newly emerging anti-traditionalist architecture of the early twentieth century. Eric Mumford explains how a combing Certain Design strategies withpassiontely held conviction that architecture should serve the many and not
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Lynch argues that people in urban situations orient themselves by means of mental maps. People who move through the city engage in way-finding. They need to be able to recognize and organize urban elements into a coherent pattern. “In the process of way-finding, the strategic link is the environmental image, the generalized mental picture of the exterior physical world that is held by an

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