URBAN LITERACY / READING AND WRITING ARCHITECTURE

Literature provides essential insights into how people experience, use and imagine places. In an accessible but scientifically aware manner, architect and author Klaske Havik (born 1975) argues that literary authors most effectively portray the concept of lived an d experienced space, evoking memories and imaginations in their readers. Havik offers new methods for reading and writing places, fr om the architectural to the urban, by engaging with three particular techniques of literature: description, transcription and prescr iption. ...[Read more]