Space & anti-space : the fabric of place, city, and architecture /
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...
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[Novato, CA] :
Oro Editions,
c [2020].
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 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.
