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Autore: | Stoppani Teresa |
Titolo: | Paradigm islands : Manhattan and Venice : discourses on architecture and the city / / Teresa Stoppani |
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) | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Paradigm islands |
ISBN: | 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.: | 9910452994203321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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