Buchcover The Minimal Intervention | Lucius Burckhardt | EAN 9783035625301 | ISBN 3-0356-2530-1 | ISBN 978-3-0356-2530-1

„I found myself nodding along with many assertions in Burckhardt's brisk and readable text, which starts in the realm of planning but touches on many aspects of the designed environment—from the design of kitchen appliances to landscape gardening and townscape preservation—across its 150 pages.“ (John Hill on: https://archidose. blogspot. com/2022/11/the-minimal-intervention. html (03.01.2023))

The Minimal Intervention

Name: The Minimal Intervention
Author: Lucius Burckhardt

von Lucius Burckhardt, herausgegeben von Markus Ritter und Martin Schmitz

Mitwirkende
Autor / Autorin	Lucius Burckhardt
Herausgegeben von	Markus Ritter
Herausgegeben von	Martin Schmitz

The mind’s eye as a design principle

Lucius Burckhardt (1925–2003) outlined his theory of the “smallest possible intervention” back in the early 1980s. The idea of minimal intervention runs through his entire oeuvre, from his critique of urbanism to the science of walking. The “smallest possible intervention” denotes a planning theory that assumes two “views” within landscape design: that which is actually visible and that in our mind’s eye. The theory of the minimal intervention means not interfering excessively with the existing landscape, but instead working with the landscape in our minds to develop an aesthetic understanding of the environment. In this book, available for the first time in English, the Swiss sociologist applies this formula to many areas of design.

Intellectual distillation of Lucius Burckhardt’s theories available for the first time in English
Exploration of the relationships between planning and building
Rationalization and needs