Understanding Urban Form

I had the sense of occupying space within space, of wallowing in it, of growing with my protoplasm in various directions, but as I said, I don 't want to insist on this quantitative and material aspect{ I want to talk above all about the satisfaction and burning desire to do something with space, to have time to extract enjoyment from space, to have space, to make something in the passing of time. Italo CalvinaThe primary emphasis for this fall 1979 fourth / fifth year combination architectural design studio was the consideration of architecture as an urban phenomenon.There were a total of seven projects of varying duration assigned during the semester which explored specific and general issues relative to this theme.These projects were supported by readings and class discussions about the morphology, typology and physiology of urban architectural form . Selected responses from the three major projects of the semester are illustrated on this and the following pages.The first two of these projects attempted to inculcate an awareness and understanding of the order and content of urban form as a continuous distribution of .