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    Townscape - Gordon Cullen - Module 3

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    Gordon Cullen was a British architect and urban designer in the mid-20th century. He developed the theory of Townscape, which examines the relationship between buildings and the spaces between them. Cullen argued that urban design should manipulate these relationships to create an environment that engages human emotions through vision, sense of place, and architectural styles. His 1961 book Townscape outlined how movement through a city, one's position within it, and the architectural fabric can translate an urban environment into a meaningful place for people.

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    Gordon Cullen was a British architect and urban designer in the mid-20th century. He developed the theory of Townscape, which examines the relationship between buildings and the spaces between them. Cullen argued that urban design should manipulate these relationships to create an environment that engages human emotions through vision, sense of place, and architectural styles. His 1961 book Townscape outlined how movement through a city, one's position within it, and the architectural fabric can translate an urban environment into a meaningful place for people.

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    Gordon Cullen was a British architect and urban designer in the mid-20th century. He developed the theory of Townscape, which examines the relationship between buildings and the spaces between them. Cullen argued that urban design should manipulate these relationships to create an environment that engages human emotions through vision, sense of place, and architectural styles. His 1961 book Townscape outlined how movement through a city, one's position within it, and the architectural fabric can translate an urban environment into a meaningful place for people.

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    Gordon Cullen (1914-1994) was an English architect, an urban designer who carried

    on the Townscape movement theme. Later on he wrote and published the “Townscape”
    book in 1961. He was a key motivator and activist in the development of British theories
    of urban design in the post-war period. Townscape is made up from articles published in
    post wars years in the architectural review. The author’s definition of townscape is that
    one building is architecture but two buildings is townscape. The relationship between
    buildings and the space between buildings assume importance. Apart from the scientific
    research and solutions arrived through planning, we need to ‘manipulate within the
    tolerances’ to make the city interesting and soulful. For this the author says, we must
    turn to the faculty of sight, for it is almost entirely through vision that the environment is
    apprehended. The environment produces an emotional reaction in three deferent ways.

    1. Concerning OPTICS: The pedestrian walks through the town at a uniform speed.
    The scenery is often revealed in a series of jerks and revelations. This is termed
    as SERIAL VISION. The elements of the town are manipulated to achieve an
    impact on emotions. The town comes alive through the drama of juxtaposition
    which otherwise would slip past featureless and inert.
    2. Concerning PLACE: It is concerned with ours reactions to the position of our
    body in its environment. It deals with the experience stemming from major
    impacts of exposure and enclosure. Utilize this sense of identity with the
    environment, the feeling of a person in a street or square that he is in it or
    entering it or leaving it. Eg. Rashtrapati Bhavan
    3. Concerning CONTENT: It is an examination of the fabric of towns – Colour,
    texture, scale, style, character, personality and uniqueness. Most town fabric will
    show evidence of differing periods in its architectural styles. Towns do display a
    mixture of styles, materials and scales.

    Townscape identifies 3 gateways to translate an environment into a home for


    human beings, that of motion, that of position and that of content. By the exercise
    of vision, it became apparent that motion was not one simple, measurable
    progression but it is two things, the existing and the revealed view. Also, human
    being is constantly aware of his position in the environment, he feels the need for
    a sense of place. Conformity killed and the agreement to differ gave life to cities.

    Here and There


    The practical result of so articulating the town into identifiable parts is that no sooner do
    we create a HERE than we have to admit a THERE, and it is precisely in the
    manipulation of these two spatial concepts that a large part of urban drama arises.
    Man-made enclosure, if only of the simplest kind, divides the environment into HERE
    and THERE. On this side of the arch, in Ludlow, we are in the present, uncomplicated
    and direct world, our world. The other side is different, having in some small way a life
    of its own (a with-holding).

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