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Paradigm Islands: Manhattan and Venice: Discourses on Architecture and the City

By Teresa Stoppani

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2011
ISBN
041556185X, 9780415561853
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3622465 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
312\311
Time added
2017-03-16 21:39:10
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Description

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 Manhattan and Venice, in different ways, the ideal places to contextualize and address the issue of an architecture of the dynamic.

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