THEORY OF URBAN MORPHOLOGY IN “LA CONSTRUCTION DES VILLES” BY CHARLES-EDOUARD JEANNERET (PART 3) : PARTI OF SQUARES

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to reveal the Charles-Edouard Jeannert’s urban morphology theory of squares in the unpublished manuscript “La construction des villes” and clarify its ideological background. We found that Jeanneret uses 19 partis, which means type of element of the city, and criteria to evaluate partis of squares. Among them a criterion “visual closure” is dominant, and Jeanneret treats “volume” as visible space if its “surface” is easy to see. Additionaly, we pointed out the similarity between French “ambiance” used by Jeanneret and German term “Stimmung.”