Professional Documents
Culture Documents
on
city
Teresa
Stoppani
R Routledge
Contents
List of illustrations and credits
xi
Preface
xvii
Acknowledgements
1.
PARADIGM ISLANDS
City
'Space
2.
xix
within'
Island
Paradigms
Discourses in architecture
12
FRAMES
16
Learning
16
'project'
city as
20
city
text
21
22
24
Leaving Manhattan:
28
from
Building
history
on
31
Specificity
adaptation
continuity
35
and tension
35
37
Contents
3.
38
39
42
45
46
MAKINGS
52
From
surfacing:
grid to 'grid
viii
Central Park
effect'
53
60
66
66
Soft grid
67
Grid
71
operations
Archegrid
73
Supergrids
77
79
85
READINGS
97
97
Urban performance
97
Artificial
5.
script
Gridding
Venice traces:
4.
as a
chorality
101
Exhibitionism
102
106
Normative chorality
106
Masks
107
Constitutive tenderness
113
MODERN(S)
119
119
120
Contents
Against Manhattan
120
American cathedrals
124
6.
fragments
133
133
135
Making Venice
141
CONTEMPORARIES
147
The city
148
as event:
Manhattan Transcripts
Moving
architecture and
Topology
to
151
sequencing voids
156
160
161
169
The
175
city
The city
as
as
architecture
'Novissime': Venice
7.
128
anew
175
178
Cannaregio Ovest
179
4,9, 16 Towers
184
Citta Ideale
186
190
REPRESENTATIONS
193
Manhattan
194
Manhattan vertical
194
Manhattan horizontal
197
Manhattan round
200
Venice
203
Venice labyrinths
203
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Contents
8.
Venice vertical
207
Venice horizontal
210
Manhattan
214
room
ISLANDS
217
Manhattan molluscs
217
Venice clouds
221
Epilogue
226
Notes
227
Bibliography
266
Name Index
275
Subject Index
279