Javeria Shaikh

Revitalization of Landscape Design at O? S?owackiego: Preservaion of Landscape Architecture at Oscar Hansen's Project O? S?owackiego, Lublin, Poland Javeria Shaikh

In the first part of this book there is a thorough introduction of how Oscar Hansen, one of the recent prominent architect, whose composition towards free form is in continuation with that of Le Corbusier, ?Towards the new architecture'. He answers beautifully the growing needs of 21st century world inhabitants. Now for Oscar Hansen the global world is one and to come up for an answer to this he traveled far and wide like how Le Corbusier did almost a century ago. His multidimensional approach towards architecture makes him universal; he opens all the physical and psychological boundaries and its barriers; and in a linear fashion takes all the architects and other professionals together towards the focused march of global accomplishment. The second part of this book focuses on towards the revitalization of the project at the S?owacki estate, Juliusz S?owacki housing estate and Lublin Housing Cooperative, 1961. Here, the students are supposed to come up with the solution to revitalise the beautiful open form building housing complex.