Format:
1 online resource (313 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781135718886
Content:
A critical look at the making of Manhattan and Venice provides a background to addressing the dynamic redefinition and making of space today. The book concerns architecture and the city, built, imagined and narrated, but, importantly, considers architecture as an intellectual and spatial process rather than a product
Note:
Intro -- 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, tentacles -- Venice 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
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Making Venice -- Chapter 6 Contemporaries -- The 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 horizontal -- Manhattan room -- Chapter 8 Islands -- Manhattan molluscs -- Venice clouds -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Stoppani, Teresa Paradigm Islands: Manhattan and Venice Florence : Taylor & Francis Group,c2011 ISBN 9780415561853
Language:
English
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