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Lost in the backlash

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2001

David Porter
David Porter
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Glasgow
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Abstract

How refreshing to re-read Leslie Martin's classic ‘The Grid as Generator’ (arq 4/4). Where did it hide during the last 28 years? How useful it would have been as a measure for the proliferation of approaches to the city that have followed in a period that includes Krier's journey from the Royal Mint Square perimeter block to Poundbury, and Koolhaas' from Manhattan to the new dense megacities of the Far East.

Martin's essay is in many ways exemplary. Coming from a cultured architectural position, but open to the possibility that certain parameters of design can usefully be quantified, he opens the possibility of a middle way for architectural research between the established numerically-based model of the physical sciences and the emerging discursive models of cultural studies.

Type
letters: Leslie Martin's ‘Grid as generator’: Sustainability responsibilities
Information
arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , March 2001 , pp. 5 - 9
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

Letters should be sent to Peter Carolin, arq, c/o University of Cambridge, Department of Architecture, 1 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge CB2 1PX, UK; F +44 (0)1223 332960 or Emailed to pc207@hermes.cam.ac.uk The Editors reserve the right to shorten letters.