X-Urbanism: Architecture and the American City - Couverture souple

Gandelsonas, Mario

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1568981511 ISBN 13 : 9781568981512

Editeur : Princeton Architectural Press, 1999

Synopsis

X-urbanism Raising questions about the form of the city, this text examines various configurations of urban space, analyzing them in ways that blur the traditional response between figure and ground. Mario Gandelsona's drawings, from pen-and-ink to coloured computer renderings, are reproduced.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

For most of his career, architect Mario Gandelsonas has been exploring the American city through his writings, designs, lectures, and, above all, through a series of remarkable analytical drawings. X-Urbanism raises questions about the form of the city by examining various configurations of urban space, analyzing them in ways that blur the traditional opposition between figure and ground. This title serves as a visual lexicon of the formal properties of American urbanism-fabric, void, grid, wall-that reveal the hidden structure of the cities New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, New Haven, Des Moines, and Atlantic City. In the process, X-Urbanism confounds our expectations: it shows us the subtle order of chaotic Los Angeles, and the disruptions of New York's rigorous grid.
X-Urbanism carefully reproduces Gandelsonas's drawings, which range from crisp, elegant pen-and-ink to colorful computer renderings and are as beautiful as they are instructive.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Mario Gandelsonas is a professor of architecture at Princeton University who has also taught at Yale, the University of Illinois, Harvard University, and the Rhode Island School of Design. His New York-based design practice with Diana Agr

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Princeton Architectural Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1568981511
• ISBN 13: 9781568981512
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200