The Venice Variations
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The Venice Variations
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Author : Sophia Psarra
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2018-04-30
The Venice Variations written by Sophia Psarra and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-30 with Architecture categories.
From the myth of Arcadia through to the twenty-first century, ideas about sustainability – how we imagine better urban environments – remain persistently relevant, and raise recurring questions. How do cities evolve as complex spaces nurturing both urban creativity and the fortuitous art of discovery, and by which mechanisms do they foster imagination and innovation? While past utopias were conceived in terms of an ideal geometry, contemporary exemplary models of urban design seek technological solutions of optimal organisation. The Venice Variations explores Venice as a prototypical city that may hold unique answers to the ancient narrative of utopia. Venice was not the result of a preconceived ideal but the pragmatic outcome of social and economic networks of communication. Its urban creativity, though, came to represent the quintessential combination of place and institutions of its time. Through a discussion of Venice and two other works owing their inspiration to this city – Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital – Sophia Psarra describes Venice as a system that starts to resemble a highly probabilistic ‘algorithm’, that is, a structure with a small number of rules capable of producing a large number of variations. The rapidly escalating processes of urban development around our big cities share many of the motivations for survival, shelter and trade that brought Venice into existence. Rather than seeing these places as problems to be solved, we need to understand how urban complexity can evolve, as happened from its unprepossessing origins in the marshes of the Venetian lagoon to the ‘model city’ that endured a thousand years. This book frees Venice from stereotypical representations, revealing its generative capacity to inform potential other ‘Venices’ for the future.
The Venice Variations
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Author : Sophia Psarra
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2018-04-30
The Venice Variations written by Sophia Psarra and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-30 with Architecture categories.
From the myth of Arcadia through to the twenty-first century, ideas about sustainability – how we imagine better urban environments – remain persistently relevant, and raise recurring questions. How do cities evolve as complex spaces nurturing both urban creativity and the fortuitous art of discovery, and by which mechanisms do they foster imagination and innovation? While past utopias were conceived in terms of an ideal geometry, contemporary exemplary models of urban design seek technological solutions of optimal organisation. The Venice Variations explores Venice as a prototypical city that may hold unique answers to the ancient narrative of utopia. Venice was not the result of a preconceived ideal but the pragmatic outcome of social and economic networks of communication. Its urban creativity, though, came to represent the quintessential combination of place and institutions of its time. Through a discussion of Venice and two other works owing their inspiration to this city – Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital – Sophia Psarra describes Venice as a system that starts to resemble a highly probabilistic ‘algorithm’, that is, a structure with a small number of rules capable of producing a large number of variations. The rapidly escalating processes of urban development around our big cities share many of the motivations for survival, shelter and trade that brought Venice into existence. Rather than seeing these places as problems to be solved, we need to understand how urban complexity can evolve, as happened from its unprepossessing origins in the marshes of the Venetian lagoon to the ‘model city’ that endured a thousand years. This book frees Venice from stereotypical representations, revealing its generative capacity to inform potential other ‘Venices’ for the future.
The Venetian Discovery Of America
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Author : Elizabeth Horodowich
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-06
The Venetian Discovery Of America written by Elizabeth Horodowich and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-06 with Art categories.
Demonstrates how Venetian newsmongers played a crucial yet heretofore unrecognized role in the invention of America.
Architecture And Narrative
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Author : Sophia Psarra
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-01-06
Architecture And Narrative written by Sophia Psarra and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-06 with Architecture categories.
Conceptual ordering, spatial and social narrative are fundamental to the ways in which buildings are shaped, used and perceived. This intriguing book explores the ways in which these three dimensions interact in the design and life of buildings.
The Jewish Ghetto And The Visual Imagination Of Early Modern Venice
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Author : Dana E. Katz
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-08-18
The Jewish Ghetto And The Visual Imagination Of Early Modern Venice written by Dana E. Katz and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-18 with Art categories.
Dana E. Katz examines the Jewish ghetto of Venice as a paradox of urban space. In 1516, the Senate established the ghetto on the periphery of the city and legislated nocturnal curfews to reduce the Jews' visibility in Venice. Katz argues that it was precisely this practice of marginalization that put the ghetto on display for Christian and Jewish eyes. According to her research, early modern Venetians grounded their conceptions of the ghetto in discourses of sight. Katz's unique approach demonstrates how Venice's Jewish ghetto engaged the sensory imagination of its inhabitants in complex and contradictory ways that both shaped urban space and reshaped Christian-Jewish relations.
Inventing The Opera House
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Author : Eugene J. Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-05-17
Inventing The Opera House written by Eugene J. Johnson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-17 with Architecture categories.
This book examines the invention of the architecture of the modern opera house in Italy between the late fifteenth and late seventeenth centuries.
Elements Of Venice
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Author : Giulia Foscari Widmann Rezzonico
language : en
Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers
Release Date : 2014
Elements Of Venice written by Giulia Foscari Widmann Rezzonico and has been published by Lars Muller Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Architecture categories.
"Developed as a research project parallel to FUNDAMENTALS - the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale, curated by Rem Koolhaas - this book introduces a radically new way of seeing Venice. With examinations of twelve different architectural elements, the guide allows readers to better understand the fundamental transformations that have shaped Venice over the past ten centuries."--Back cover.
War Communication And The Politics Of Culture In Early Modern Venice
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Author : Anastasia Stouraiti
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2025-02-13
War Communication And The Politics Of Culture In Early Modern Venice written by Anastasia Stouraiti and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-02-13 with History categories.
Weaving together cultural history and critical imperial studies, this book shows how war and colonial expansion shaped seventeenth-century Venetian culture and society. Anastasia Stouraiti tests conventional assumptions about republicanism, commercial peace and cross-cultural exchange and offers a novel approach to the study of the Republic of Venice. Her extensive research brings the history of communication in dialogue with conquest and empire-building in the Mediterranean to provide an original interpretation of the politics of knowledge in wartime Venice. The book argues that the Venetian-Ottoman War of the Morea (1684-1699) was mediated through a diverse range of cultural mechanisms of patrician elite domination that orchestrated the production of popular consent. It sheds new light on the militarisation of the Venetian public sphere and exposes the connections between bellicose foreign policies and domestic power politics in a state celebrated as the most serene republic of merchants.
The Nolan Variations
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Author : Tom Shone
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2020-11-03
The Nolan Variations written by Tom Shone and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-03 with Art categories.
An in-depth look at Christopher Nolan, considered to be the most profound, commercially successful director at work today, written with his full cooperation. A rare, revelatory portrait, "as close as you're ever going to get to the Escher drawing that is Christopher Nolan's remarkable brain" (Sam Mendes). In chapters structured by themes and motifs ("Time"; "Chaos"; "Dreams"), Shone offers an unprecedented intimate view of the director. Shone explores Nolan's thoughts on his influences, his vision, his enigmatic childhood past--and his movies, from plots and emotion to identity and perception, including his latest blockbuster, the action-thriller/spy-fi Tenet ("Big, brashly beautiful, grandiosely enjoyable"--Variety). Filled with the director's never-before-seen photographs, storyboards, and scene sketches, here is Nolan on the evolution of his pictures, and the writers, artists, directors, and thinkers who have inspired and informed his films. "Fabulous: intelligent, illuminating, rigorous, and highly readable. The very model of what a filmmaking study should be. Essential reading for anyone who cares about Nolan or about film for that matter."--Neal Gabler, author of An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood and Walt Disney, The Biography
Invisible Cities
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Author : Italo Calvino
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2013-08-12
Invisible Cities written by Italo Calvino and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-12 with Fiction categories.
Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels—a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory. “Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear.