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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stoppani, Teresa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and society--New York (State)--New York.

Architecture and society.

Architecture and society--Italy--Venice.

Space (Architecture).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Manhattan and Venice : discourses on architecture and the city

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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ISBN:

1-135-71895-4

0-203-72072-5

1-283-89342-8

1-135-71888-1

9780203720721

OCLC:

823389169