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unusual facts about Urban design


Alexander von Hoffman

He came to the Center in 1997; he was previously associate professor of urban planning and design at Harvard's Graduate School of Design and a Fellow at the Taubman Center for State and Local Government at the Harvard Kennedy School.


Hans Monderman

Monderman received an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree in traffic planning for outstanding achievements in the fields of traffic engineering, urban design, and project management.

Patrick Lau Hing Tat

Patrick Lau graduated from the University of Toronto in 1983 with a degree in landscape architecture; he also completed graduate school in 1989 at the University of Hong Kong with a degree in urban design.


see also

Defensible space

Defensible space theory, a concept of influencing negative social behavior through architectural and urban design

Giuseppe Lignano

Giuseppe has a Master’s degree in Architecture and Urban Design from the Universita’ di Napoli, Italy, and completed postgraduate studies at Columbia University, in New York City.

Jeff Kipnis

During the 1990s he collaborated with the Iranian architect Bahram Shirdel (visiting lecturer at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and the Architectural Association School of Architecture) on the design of influential projects such as the Scottish National Museum, Montreal Urban Design 1990-2000, and Place Jacques Cartier.

Konza Technology City

SHoP Architects: An architecture and planning firm creating the conceptual design for the sales pavilion and the urban design for Phase 1.

LOT-EK

Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano each have a Masters Degree in Architecture and Urban Design from the Universita’ di Napoli, Italy (1989), and have completed post-graduate studies at Columbia University, New York (1990-1991).

Nader Tehrani

He received his Master of Architecture and Urban Design (MAUD) with distinction from Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1991.

Paul Florian

From 1975 to 1978, Florian attended the Architectural Association School of Architecture, concentrating his studies in urban design under the direction of Léon Krier and earning a Diploma Degree.

Socialist realism in Poland

Other prominent examples of urban design included Marszałkowska Housing Estate (MDM) in Warsaw, Kościuszkowska Housing Estate (KDM) in Wrocław, Main Station Gdynia Główna, a housing estate in Kowary, and the Palace of Coal-Basin Culture in Dąbrowa Górnicza.

Superkilen

The project was rewarded with a 2013 AIA Honor Award in the Regional & Urban Design category by the American Institute of Architects.

Thomas Sieverts

Sieverts studied architecture and urban design in Stuttgart, Liverpool, and Berlin between 1955 and 1962.

Uvedale Price

As much as The Picturesque was meant to be a middle ground or synthesis of the Beautiful and the Sublime for Price, for Townscape theorists, the Townscape movement was meant to be a middle ground or alternative approach to what were perceived by Hastings as two branches of Functionalism, the Rational (i.e. Le Corbusier) and the Organic (i.e. Frank Lloyd Wright) approaches to architecture and urban design.

William J. Mitchell

Mitchell headed the architecture and urban design program at the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles starting in 1970.

Wolf Tegethoff

Tegethoff studied art history, urban design, economic history and social history at the University of Bonn and Columbia University, New York.