Paradigm islands : Manhattan and Venice : discourses on architecture and the city / / Teresa Stoppani

• Autore: Stoppani Teresa
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Disciplina: 720.945/311
• Soggetto topico: Architecture and society - New York (State) - New York; Architecture and society - Italy - Venice; Space (Architecture)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Manhattan ; Leaving 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; Supergrids ; Venice 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 Venice ; Chapter 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 vertical ; Venice horizontalManhattan room; Chapter 8 Islands; Manhattan molluscs; Venice clouds; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Concerning 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 Manhatta
• Altri titoli varianti: Manhattan and Venice : discourses on architecture and the city
• Titolo autorizzato: Paradigm islands
• ISBN: 1-135-71895-4; 0-203-72072-5; 1-283-89342-8; 1-135-71888-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825019503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II