A nocturnal history of architecture / edited by Javier Fernández Contreras, Vera Sacchetti and Roberto Zancan.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Fernández Contreras, Javier, 1982- editor, writer of introduction.

Sacchetti, Vera, editor, writer of introduction.

Zancan, Roberto, editor, writer of introduction.

Conference Name:

International Conference A Nocturnal History of Architecture (2021 : Geneva, Switzerland), creator.

Series:

Column ; issue 2.

Column ; issue 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Light in architecture--Congresses.

Light in architecture.

Light in architecture--History--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings

Physical Description:

144 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leipzig : Spector Books ; Genève : HEAD, [2024]

Summary:

"For centuries, architectural theory, discourse, and agency have been based on diurnal and solar paradigms. References to the night in Vitruvius' De architectura are residual; they are similarly scarce in the most influential Renaissance treatises by Alberti or Palladio. It was not until the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that the invention and institutionalization of electric light in private and public spaces gradually transformed the agency of night in the architectural discipline. This book is a chronological first attempt at A Nocturnal History of Architecture, an epic journey through more than 2000 years of entanglements between night and space design across different continents and geographies. From the elusive darkness of Greek temples to the constantly illuminated American suburbia, and from the presence of the moon in classic Japanese aesthetics to the architecture of Italian nightclubs in the twentieth century, what emerges from these studies is how the identity of human beings across time and their domestic, professional, and cultural spaces are inseparable from the night. By analyzing and studying 'night scenes,' this book hopes to show how the night is a laboratory for the development of new forms of thinking about space and, ultimately, of living"--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction: A nocturnal history of architecture / Javier Fernández Contreras, Vera Sacchetti and Roberto Zancan

Obscure Origins: Sketch for a History of Habitat Under the Shadow of Architecture / Sébastien Grosset

Through the Gates of Darkness: Discovering the Nocturnal Power of Ancient Greek Religious Architecture / Efrosyni Boutsikas

Byzantine Night: Subterranean Darkness as Productive Space / Maria Shevelkina

A Fascination for the Moon in Japanese Aesthetics and Architecture / Murielle Hladik

Chasing Darkness: Night and the Performance of Metaphor in Seventeenth-Century Rome / Maarten Delbeke

Urban Slavery at the Threshold of Night: The Architecture of Nightfall in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Amy Chazkel

Nothing But a Few Signs, Like Stars in an Immense Black Night: Clandestinity and Night-faring Practices in the Underground Railroad / Lucía Jalón Oyarzun

"Illusion is the Thing": Simulating Night at the Atmospheric Cinema / Carlotta Darò, Yan Rocher

Towards Happiness and Emotions: Light in Socialist Realist Interiors in Poland / Alexandra Sumorok

This Darkened Village: Obermutton in the Extended History of Swiss Electrification / Chase Galis

"Inexistent" Architecture, Cultural "Stagings" and the Interconnectedness of the Nightclub Interior / Cat Rossi

The Space of MTV: From Inner-city Clubbing to Basement Suburbia / Léa-Catherine Szacka

Topography, Light Design, and Industrial Heritage in the Ruhr Region: The Night Vision of IBA Emscher Park / Hilary Orange

Nocturnal Spaces: Rediscovering an Architecture of Darkness / Nick Dunn

Post-Scriptum: The Night, on the Margins. On the Nocturnal Studios at HEAD - Genève / Youri Kravtchenko

Notes:

Contributions of essay by: Sébastien Grosset, Efrosyni Boutsikas, Maria Shevelkina, Murielle Hladik, Maarten Delbeke, Amy Chazkel, Lucía Jalón Oyarzun, Carlotta Darò, Yan Rocher, Alexandra Sumorok, Chase Galis, Cat Rossi, Léa-Catherine Szacka, Hilary Orange, Nick Dunn, and Youri Kravtchenko.

"This publication is the result of the international conference A Nocturnal History of Architecture, which was held at HEAD, Genève in December 2021. It was complemented at the 76th Annual International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Which was held in Montreal in April 2023"--Cover page 3.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783959056748

3959056745

OCLC:

1380459416