Walkscapes : walking as an aesthetic practice / Francesco Careri ; foreword, Christopher Flynn ; introduction, Gilles Tiberghien ; English translation, Steven Piccolo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Careri, Francesco, 1966- author.

Contributor:

Flynn, Christopher, writer of foreword.

Tiberghien, Gilles A., 1953- writer of introduction.

Piccolo, Steven, translator.

Standardized Title:

Walkscapes. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Philosophy.

Architecture.

Walking.

Physical Description:

202 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Distribution:

Middletown, DE : [distributor not identified], 2018.

Other Title:

Walking as an aesthetic practice

Place of Publication:

Ames, IA : Culicidae Architectural Press, an imprint of Culicidae Press, LLC, [2017]

Language Note:

Translated from the Spanish.

Summary:

"The act of walking, although it does not constitute a physical construction of a space, implies a transformation of a place and its meanings. The mere physical presence of humans in an unmapped space, as well as the variations of perceptions they register while crossing it, already constitute forms of transformation of the landscape that--without leaving tangible signs--culturally modify the meaning of space and therefor the space itself."--Back cover

Contents:

Foreword (2017)

Walkscapes ten years later (2013)

Nomad city

Walkscapes. Errare Humanum Est... Anti walk ; Land walk ; Transurbance ; Toward a new expansion of the field

Errare Humanum Est... Cain, Abel, and architecture ; Nomadic space and "erratic" space ; From the path to the menhir ; The Benben and the Ka

Anti walk. The Dada visit ; The urban readymade ; Surrealist deambulation ; City as amniotic fluid ; From banal city to unconscious city ; Lettrist drifting (Dérive) ; The theory of the Dérive ; L'Archipel Influential ; Playful city versus bourgeois city ; World as a nomadic labyrinth

Land walk. The voyage of Tony Smith ; Field expansion ; From the menhir to the path ; Treading the world ; The wayfarer on the map ; The suburban odyssey ; The entropic landscape

Transurbance. Barefoot in the chaos ; The fractal archipelago ; Zonzo.

Notes:

Originally published in Spanish under the title Walkscapes : el andar como práctica estética. Barcelona : Gili, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-190) and index.

ISBN:

9781683150084

1683150082

OCLC:

1025334343