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Paradigm Islands:

Manhattan and Venice


Discourses

on

city

Teresa

Stoppani

R Routledge

Taylor & Francis Croup

LONDON AND NEW YORK

architecture and the

Contents
List of illustrations and credits

xi

Preface

xvii

Acknowledgements

1.

PARADIGM ISLANDS

Manhattan and Venice

City

'Space

2.

xix

within'

Island

Paradigms

Discourses in architecture

12

FRAMES

16

Delirium and historical

Learning

16

'project'

from Manhattan, designing the frivolous:

Rem Koolhaas from 'delirious' to 'Junkspace'


Manhattan lab: from Manhattan to the contemporary

Retroactive manifesto: the

city as

20

city

text

21
22

Manhattan projects: from architecture to Manhattan

24

Leaving Manhattan:

28

from

metropolitan 'theorems' to architectural 'patents'

The frivolous project: between signature and

Building
history

on

31

tension, learning from Venice: Manfredo Tafuri's

between renovatio and

Specificity

adaptation

continuity

35

and tension

35

The historical 'project'

37

Contents

3.

History per exempla

38

Tafuri in the labyrinth

39

Harmony and conflicts

42

Venice and the Renaissance

45

Princes, cities, architects

46

MAKINGS

52

Manhattan Grid: the city


Manhattan

From

surfacing:

grid to 'grid

viii

Central Park

effect'

53

60
66
66

Soft grid

67

Grid

71

operations

Archegrid

73

Supergrids

77

grids, mats, tentacles

79

Venice impossible: representations of the dynamic

85

READINGS

97

Manhattan: performance, artificial chorality and exhibitionism

97

Urban performance

97

Artificial

5.

script

Gridding

Venice traces:

4.

as a

chorality

101

Exhibitionism

102

Venice: normative chorality, masks, tenderness

106

Normative chorality

106

Masks

107

Constitutive tenderness

113

MODERN(S)

119

The impossibility of the modern project

119

Le Corbusier and Manhattan

120

Contents

Against Manhattan

120

American cathedrals

124

United Nations and other

6.

fragments

Le Corbusier and Venice

133

Le Corbusier and the past

133

Venice and modernity

135

Making Venice

141

CONTEMPORARIES

147

The city

148

as event:

Bernard Tschumi in Manhattan

Manhattan Transcripts

Moving

architecture and

Topology

to

151

sequencing voids

156

diagram: Peter Eisenman between

Venice and Manhattan

160

Venice after Le Corbusier

161

Manhattan after the Grid

169

The

175

city

The city

diagram. Gianugo Polesello's Venice

as

as

architecture

'Novissime': Venice

7.

128

anew

175

178

Cannaregio Ovest

179

4,9, 16 Towers

184

Citta Ideale

186

From capriccio to montage to urban diagram

190

REPRESENTATIONS

193

Manhattan

194

Manhattan vertical

194

Manhattan horizontal

197

Manhattan round

200

Venice

203

Venice labyrinths

203
ix

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

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