ordon ullen © Thomas Gordon Cullen (0 Aus s 1 influential British architect s key motivator in © He Is best known for the book Yaxenseape, first published inSerial Vision Serial Visio isto walk from one en of the pla to another, ta uniform pace, wll pruvide a sequence of revelations Which are suggested in the serial drawings opposite, reading from lft to right. Place Place description isin a world of black and white the roads nl the buildings for social nul business urvoses Content Content concerned with the Intrinse quality of the various sub environment, and st sions oft landscape cates k ies of metropolis, town, arcadia, industria, arable and wild nature Focal Point Focal point is the idea of the town as a place of assembly, of social intercourse of reeting was taken for xrate Uo the whole of human eviliation tp tothe twentieth THE CONCISE TOWNSCAPEClosure Closure, may be differentiated from Biiclosure, by contrasting “travel with ‘arrival. Closure is the cutting up of the linear town system (streets, passages, ete.) into visually ‘digestible and coherent amounts whilst retaining the sense of progression. Enclosure on the other hand provides a complete private word which is inward looking, static and self-sufficient Outdoor Publicity One contribution to: modern townscape, startlingly conspicuous everywhere you look. but almost centirely ignored by the town planne publicity, This is Uie most charaeteristic, and, potentially, the e, contribution of the twentieth century to urban is street outdoor most valua scenery. At night it has ereated a new landscape of a kind never before seen in history. Man-made enelosure, if only of the simplest kind, divides the cnvironment into HERE and THERE. On this side ofthe areh, in Ludlow. we are in the present, uncomplicated and direct world, ther side is different, having in some small way cour world. The alife ofits own (a with-holding).Serial Vision Gordon Cullen sae ~ Vela revelations, with delight and contrasts” Cullen work showed how movement ean be read as a pictorial sequence passing and soeing.engaging with and forming mental images Seen at different speeds ith different levels of focu snpanied by the The pedestrian viewpo reedom to stop and cn Serial vision Gordon Cullen +1974Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi, India Designed by Herbert Baker and Edward Lutyens, the ne capital yas envisioned on te principles of Garden City ‘he Rajpal that leads tothe Reshtrapaté saan hay a series of visual sereening as well a enhancing elements thus, ee A sense of progression is created and keeps the observer ‘moving forward The avenues ad th wate bodies confine tothe focal point and as you move forward your frame ets bigger with multiple buildings and different views. Anillusion of nearness and closeness that i erated in th Fist frame faces out as one approsches the main ling, In this example, serial vision is used to suggest the majestic and authoritative nature ofthe building in focusThe sequence a axis of The Rashrapati Bhavan in New Delhi emphasizes ‘of evel ad serecning in serial visi For here hal could simply have been one pielure reproduced four times, enlarging the centre ofthe previous view and bringing tecminal building. tras out to be four separate and uni This Bhavan acts ss an entice to the observer as hes eradualy lead furthcr