Unorthodox Ways to Think the City: Representations, Constructions, Dynamics

by Stoppani, Teresa

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Title Statements

Full title :Unorthodox Ways to Think the City : Representations, Constructions, Dynamics.

Summary

This book argues that architecture and the city and their processes can be better understood by drawing categories from disciplines that exceed the architectural and urban cultural context. It performs an open intellectual reading that traverses architecture and architectural theory, but also art theory and history, cartography, philosophy, literature and cultural studies, to unfold a series of 'figures' that are ambiguously placed between the representation and the construction of space in architecture and the city. The paradigm and philosophy, the island and the city, the map and representation, the model and making and the questioning of form performed by dust, are explored beyond their definition, as processes that differently make space between architecture and the city and are proposed as unorthodox analytic techniques to decipher contemporary spatial complexity. The book analyses how these 'figures' have been employed at different times and in different creative disciplines, beyond architecture and in relation to changing notions of space, and traces the role that they have played in the shift towards the dynamic that has taken place in contemporary theory and design research. What emerges is the idea of an 'architecture of the city' that is not only physical but is largely defined by the way in which its physical spaces are regulated, lived and perceived, but also imagined and projected.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2018.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Florence
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (207 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780203705742, 0203705742, 9781351341103, 1351341103, 9781351341097, 135134109X, 9781351341110, 1351341111
DOI:10.4324/9781351341110
oclc:on1078570330
LC Classification:NA2500
Dewey Decimal:720.1

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: words for architecture; 2. Paradigm: notes for a definition of architecture as paradigm; City as paradigm; Scientific paradigm and revolution; Anti-paradigm: the Neutral; Becoming paradigm; Analogy as paradigm?; Opening; Notes; Bibliography; 3. Island: the possibility of the city as an island; A critical distance; Connection: the island is not deserted; Islands: archipelago; Island: centreless, vibrating, convulsing; The island within

The city as an island: a propositionNotes; Bibliography; 4. Map: from description to making; Descriptio; Tracings; Obliteration; Thought; Speculation; Remembering; Without map; Without territory; Mapping time; Notes; Bibliography; 5. Model: from object to process; The space of oscillation; The fleeting model: from drawing to model; The mediating model: 'measured and proportioned to the finished building'; The invisible model: from model to type; The conceptual model: from model to modelling; The relational model: debris, titles, words; Notes; Bibliography; 6. Dust: from form to transformation

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architectural theory ARCHITECTURE -- Criticism Architecture -- Philosophie Architecture -- Philosophy Cartography Electronic books Espace (Architecture) film theory Koolhaas POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy Scott-Brown Space (Architecture) Urban studies Venturi