| Paradigm Islands: Manhattan and Venice: Discourses on Architecture and the City Contributor(s): Stoppani, Teresa (Author) |
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ISBN: 041556185X ISBN-13: 9780415561853 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $190.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Criticism |
| Dewey: 720.945 |
| LCCN: 2010014095 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.40 lbs) 312 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |