Riverine

Riverscapes are the main arteries of the world's largest cities, and have, for millennia, been the lifeblood of the urban communities that have developed around them. These human settlements - given life through the space of the local waterscape - soon developed into ritualised spaces that sought to harness the dynamism of the watercourse and create the local architectural land...

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Riverscapes are the main arteries of the world's largest cities, and have, for millennia, been the lifeblood of the urban communities that have developed around them. These human settlements - given life through the space of the local waterscape - soon developed into ritualised spaces that sought to harness the dynamism of the watercourse and create the local architectural landscape. Theorised via a sophisticated understanding of history, space, culture, and ecology, this collection of wonderful and deliberately wide-ranging case studies, from Early Modern Italy to the contemporary Bengal Delta, investigates the culture of human interaction with rivers and the nature of urban topography.Riverineexplores the ways in which architecture and urban planning have imbued cultural landscapes with ritual and structural meaning.

Review

Riverine provides nuanced and refreshing understandings of the relationship between architecture and rivers at a variety of scales and across diverse geographies. An excellent collection – essential reading for architects, planners and landscape architects. - Duanfang Lu, Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, The University of Sydney

Gerald Adler is a Professor and Deputy Head at the Kent School of Architecture (KSA), University of Kent, UK, which he helped to found in 2005. His PhD was on the German ‘Reform’ architect Heinrich Tessenow, and he has written on European twentieth-century topics. He is an active member of CREAte, the University of Kent’s Centre for Research in European Architecture. Adler bega...

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Gerald Adler is a Professor and Deputy Head at the Kent School of Architecture (KSA), University of Kent, UK, which he helped to found in 2005. His PhD was on the German ‘Reform’ architect Heinrich Tessenow, and he has written on European twentieth-century topics. He is an active member of CREAte, the University of Kent’s Centre for Research in European Architecture. Adler began his career in practice, working in London, Tokyo, Winchester, Stuttgart and Vienna, and currently directs the MA in Architecture and Urban Design at KSA.

Manolo Guerci is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of Graduate Studies at the Kent School of Architecture, University of Kent, UK. His research concentrates on early-modern European palaces, but he has also looked at issues related to the conservation of historic buildings, traditional Japanese architecture, and post-war social housing estates, on all of which he has published widely. Educated in Rome, London, Paris, and Cambridge, he began working in France for the 'Monuments Historiques' agency, while he has previously taught at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Illustration credits vii
Contributors xii
Acknowledgements xvi
Introduction 1
Gerald Adler and Manolo Guerci
The amphibian townscape 13
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Illustration credits vii
Contributors xii
Acknowledgements xvi
Introduction 1
Gerald Adler and Manolo Guerci
The amphibian townscape 13
Deborah Howard
SECTION ONE
ENSEMBLES: by the river 27
Ancient waterfront palaces: a case study of the Great Palace at Amarna 29
Mustafa Kaan Sağ
The spectacle of power on the Po: Ferrara and its riverfront
during the Renaissance 39
Francesco Ceccarelli
From Bishops’ Inns to private palaces: the evolution of the Strand in London from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century 50
Manolo Guerci
Revealing the lost rivers to re-shape Paris: recovering a lost tributary of the Seine in south-eastern Paris 59
John Letherland
EXCURSUS ONE
Waterloo Sunrise 67
Kate Miller
EXCURSUS TWO
Along the river Temo in Bosa, Sardinia 76
Giovanna Piga
SECTION TWO
TOPOI: of the river 83
Building rivers: how the aqueducts of Roman Britain furthered connections between towns and their riverine settings 85
Jay Ingate
Riverine architecture in the absence of rivers 98
Ishraq Z. Khan
The Sabarmati in Ahmedabad, India: the story of a city told through its river 108
Elisa Alessandrini
Villeneuve d’Ascq: a French new town built around lakes 118
Isabelle Estienne
EXCURSUS THREE
Fleeting memories: bringing the Fleet River back to life in St Pancras 135
Richard Gooden
SECTION THREE
MEANINGS: beyond the river 143
Sauf aux riverains: the riverine memorial of Georges-Henri Pingusson 145
Gerald Adler
Water and memory: tracing Nantes’ watermarks 159
Ann Borst
Sensing the Swan 173
Saren Reid
Nature and artifice: Nadav Kander’s Yangtze, The Long River 187
Alexandra Stara
EXCURSUS FOUR
Metropolitan riverine: landscapes of the modern port city 199
Peter Beard
Bibliography 212
Index 229
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