All Outputs (3)

Dwelling cells, the city and the autonomy of architecture (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Borsi, K. (2015). Dwelling cells, the city and the autonomy of architecture.

Hans Scharoun projected his Siedlung Charlottenburg Nord of 1955 and his Siedlung Siemensstadt of 1929 as a partial realization of his urban vision for a radical restructuring of Berlin after WW2. For Scharoun, “the mechanical decentralization” as he... Read More about Dwelling cells, the city and the autonomy of architecture.

Regenerating Liverpool Pier Head waterfront: the role of urban design (2015)
Journal Article
Fageir, M., Porter, N., & Borsi, K. (2015). Regenerating Liverpool Pier Head waterfront: the role of urban design. https://doi.org/10.15340/2148193811851

This paper investigates the processes by which the regeneration of the historical Pier Head waterfront in Liverpool took place during the first decade of the twenty-first century. The research focuses on three key regeneration projects at Pier Head W... Read More about Regenerating Liverpool Pier Head waterfront: the role of urban design.

Drawing the region: Hermann Jansen's vision of Greater Berlin in 1910 (2015)
Journal Article
Borsi, K. (2015). Drawing the region: Hermann Jansen's vision of Greater Berlin in 1910. Journal of Architecture, 20(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2015.1004619

The Greater Berlin Competition of 1910 signals a key transformation in the conception of the city. For the first time, the city was no longer drawn as a continuous bounded urban fabric, but as a set of linked and dispersed urban components distribute... Read More about Drawing the region: Hermann Jansen's vision of Greater Berlin in 1910.