Space & anti-space : the fabric of place, city, and architecture /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Peterson, Steven K. (συγγραφέας.)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Littenberg, Barbara (συγγραφέας.)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: [Novato, CA] : Oro Editions, c [2020].
• Θέματα: Χώρος (Αρχιτεκτονική) >; Πολεοδομικός σχεδιασμός > Νέα Υόρκη; Πολεοδομικός σχεδιασμός > Γαλλία > Παρίσι; Πολεοδομικός σχεδιασμός > Ιταλία > Ρώμη; Δημόσιοι χώροι; Κοινωνιολογία, Αστική; Ρώμη (Ιταλία); Παρίσι (Γαλλία); Νέα Υόρκη (Πολιτεία) > Νέα Υόρκη

 This book challenges the conventional idea of what constitutes the physical form of the contemporary city. Observing the absence of extended urban fabrics--the missing urbanism--in the new global cities developed today, it argues that these cities are merely statistical accumulations of density that lack the positive attributes of a genuine urban condition. Cities as urban places cannot be made by individual buildings alone but rather depend on the intertwined combination of an architecture that is bound to the creation of public spaces and streets, and engaged in the structure of urban blocks to form a complex field pattern of interactive solids and voids. In a series of essays, articles and urban projects extensively illustrated by plans, analytic diagrams, and dramatic images, this book makes a visual and verbal argument for the steps that need to be taken to re-urbanize the city in order to achieve an urbanity consisting of multiple discrete places that depend on the essential concept of contained geometrical space. These spatial ideas are illustrated in this book in three proposals: for Rome, Roma Interrotta, 1979; Paris, the Consultation Internationale pour L'Aménagement du Quartier des Halles, 1980; and New York in the World Trade Center Site Innovative Design Study, 2002.-- Provided by publisher. 

 Introduction / Michael Dennis -- Foreword / Jonathan Barnett -- Architectural and urban space -- A. Modern space -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -- the dematerialization of architecture and ineffable space -- B. Alternative ideas of space -- Prologue -- Space & anti-space -- Subtexts -- 1. Post-Modern and Neo-Rational -- 2. Las Vegas and Le Corbusier -- 3. The fundamental dichotomy -- space or anti-space -- 4. A brief history of space -- 5. Cubism – the turning point -- 6. Palazzo Barberini - negative space -- 7. The invention of virtual thickness -- Part Two The urban fabric -- C. Roma Interrotta: continuous design fields -- Colin Rowe – towards a standard model of urban form -- D. The elements of urban form -- Urban design tactics -- Part three -- Shaping places -- E. Paris: Les Halles design competition -- The aims and means of urban design -- F. New York: knitting networks of urban fabric -- The urban design plan for lower Manhattan -- Part Four -- Towers and texture -- G. New York: vertical and horizontal space -- The re-urbanization of Ground Zero -- a proposal for the World Trade Center Site -- H. The Taxonomy of urban form -- Urban fabric: the common denominator of cities -- When buildings touched -- The urban molecule -- How a city is built -- Afterward / Barbara Littenberg.