Lecture : The art of classic planning
Leading new traditional architect and urbanist, founder of the Classic Planning Institute, and author of "The Art of Classic Planning" (2017). Dr. Buras' current work helps local communities with their long-term planning, architects designing new local architectural styles, teaching institute fellows in architectural competence and classical planning, and researching the neuroscience of the built environment with society with his scientific colleagues. Dr. Buras designs cities, towns and buildings, he holds workshops, writes and lectures regularly.
Classic Planning is how we build cities before planning ruins them. It is a holistic method based on the idea of the unity of truth, goodness, and beauty. It is expressed in terminology of the Built environment as, “firmness, commodity, and delight“. In contemporary language, this means durability, adaptive, reuse, and an experience of beauty. Since most of what we see, standing in city streets is buildings, obviously, Architecture is of primary importance in Urbanism and to get a suitable aesthetic experience, it has to follow the classical proportions. Also significant is that manual construction contributes greatly to the well-being of passersby in that it satisfies the brains 50% commitment to manual dexterity. Most fun to contemplate and most difficult to address is the fact that cars, vehicles and even bicycles are perceived by the brain as large animals perhaps most significant is that, due to the fact that memory is locational, please making is memory making.
Video credits: Dag W. Grundseth. Pixmedia
Subtitles : Frederik Nygård Stokvik. Ny Urbanisme Norge