Touching the City
Scale in cities is relative and absolute. It has the ability to make us feel at home in the world or alien from it; connected or disconnected. Both large and small scale in cities can be beautiful; both are right, neither is wrong. Whilst accepting that prescription is no answer, ''getting the scale right'' – at an intuitive and sensual level – is a fundamental part of the magic of architecture an...
Scale in cities is relative and absolute. It has the ability to make us feel at home in the world or alien from it; connected or disconnected. Both large and small scale in cities can be beautiful; both are right, neither is wrong. Whilst accepting that prescription is no answer, ''getting the scale right'' – at an intuitive and sensual level – is a fundamental part of the magic of architecture an...
