Field-Event/Field Space (Serial Books: Architecture and Urbanism) Book

Gestalt theory provided the discipline of architecture with several key ideas by which it distinguished the opposition between "figure" and "ground", "field" and "object". These distinctions and the techniques of representation they fostered influenced the development of formal architectural strategies and ultimately the physical form of the contemporary city. In Field Event: Field Space Kevin Rhowbotham sets out a collection of two-and-three dimensional studies in series that describe an architecture and urbanism that proceeds from the "ground" or "field" pole of the Gestalt opposition. Field Event: Field Space follows on Rhowbotham's Form to Programme (also Black Dog Publishing), taking further his ideas for a critically engaged and responsible architecture and pursuing them here in more detail, that is, in the specific context of the urbanisms of the former Eastern Block states and their regions.Read More