05034oam 2200685I 450 991045299420332120200520144314.00-203-72072-51-283-89342-81-135-71888-110.4324/9780203720721 (CKB)2550000000710775(EBL)1099083(OCoLC)823389169(SSID)ssj0000783935(PQKBManifestationID)11430655(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000783935(PQKBWorkID)10762262(PQKB)11572131(OCoLC)822565759(MiAaPQ)EBC1099083(Au-PeEL)EBL1099083(CaPaEBR)ebr10639104(CaONFJC)MIL420592(EXLCZ)99255000000071077520180706d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrParadigm islands Manhattan and Venice : discourses on architecture and the city /Teresa StoppaniLondon ;New York :Routledge,2011.1 online resource (313 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-138-87404-3 0-415-56185-X Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Paradigm Islands: Manhattan and Venice Discourses on architecture and the city; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations and credits; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Paradigm Islands; Manhattan and Venice; City; 'Space within'; Island; Paradigms; Discourses in architecture; Chapter 2 Frames; Delirium and historical 'project'; Learning from Manhattan, designing the frivolous: Rem Koolhaas from 'delirious' to 'Junkspace'; Manhattan lab: from Manhattan to the contemporary City; Retroactive manifesto: the city as text; Manhattan projects: from architecture to ManhattanLeaving Manhattan: from metropolitan 'theorems' to architectural 'patents'The frivolous project: between signature and adaptation; Building on tension, learning from Venice: Manfredo Tafuri's history between renovatio and continuity; Specificity and tension; The historical 'project'; History per exempla; Tafuri in the labyrinth; Harmony and confiicts; Venice and the Renaissance; Princes, cities, architects; Chapter 3 Makings; Manhattan Grid: the city as a script; Manhattan surfacing: Central Park; From grid to 'grid effect'; Gridding; Soft grid; Grid operations; Archegrid; SupergridsVenice traces: grids, mats, tentaclesVenice impossible: representations of the dynamic; Chapter 4 Readings; Manhattan: performance, artificial chorality and exhibitionism; Urban performance; Artificial chorality; Exhibitionism; Venice: normative chorality, masks, tenderness; Normative chorality; Masks; Constitutive tenderness; Chapter 5 Modern(s); The impossibility of the modern project; Le Corbusier and Manhattan; Against Manhattan; American cathedrals; United Nations and other fragments; Le Corbusier and Venice; Le Corbusier and the past; Venice and modernity; Making VeniceChapter 6 ContemporariesThe city as event: Bernard Tschumi in Manhattan; Manhattan Transcripts; Moving architecture and sequencing voids; Topology to diagram: Peter Eisenman between Venice and Manhattan; Venice after Le Corbusier; Manhattan after the Grid; The city as diagram. Gianugo Polesello's Venice; The city as architecture; 'Novissime': Venice anew; Cannaregio Ovest; 4, 9, 16 Towers; Città Ideale; From capriccio to montage to urban diagram; Chapter 7 Representations; Manhattan; Manhattan vertical; Manhattan horizontal; Manhattan round; Venice; Venice labyrinths; Venice verticalVenice horizontalManhattan room; Chapter 8 Islands; Manhattan molluscs; Venice clouds; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject IndexConcerning architecture and the city, built, imagined and narrated, this book focuses on Manhattan and Venice, but considers architecture as an intellectual and spatial process rather than a product. A critical look at the making of Manhattan and Venice provides a background to addressing the dynamic redefinition and making of space today. The gradual processes of adjustment, the making of a constantly changing dense space, the emphasis on forming rather than on figure, the incorporation of new forms and languages through their adaptation and transformation, make both ManhattaArchitecture and societyNew York (State)New YorkArchitecture and societyItalyVeniceSpace (Architecture)Electronic books.Architecture and societyArchitecture and societySpace (Architecture)720.945/311Stoppani Teresa.910318MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452994203321Paradigm islands2093232UNINA