TABULA PLENA

In contrast to tabula rasa urbanism, this book considers strategies and possibilities for tabula plena urban sites that are full o f existing buildings and systems that have accumulated over time. Such dense urban sites prompt designers to work between the fields of architecture, historic preservation and urban planning, developing methods for collaborative authorship and interlocking archite ctural forms.Tabula Plena asks larger questions about how we practice, teach and theorize engagement with existing architecture at t he urban ...[Read more]