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Utopian Adventure: The Corviale Void (Paperback): Victoria Watson Utopian Adventure: The Corviale Void (Paperback)
Victoria Watson
R1,480 Discovery Miles 14 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is about contemporary issues in architecture and urbanism, taking the form of a project for The Corviale Void, a one kilometre long strip of urban space, immured in the notorious Corviale housing development in the Southwestern sector of Rome. Corviale is a bizarre object, single-minded in its idea, the history of Corviale can be traced to debates in Italian architecture culture of the 1960's, including Aldo Rossi's objection to urbanisation, as articulated in his books and projects. On the one hand the project for the Corviale Void begins with one of the original theorists of modern urbanisation and architecture, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, looking into his fascination with the insides of walls. On the other hand the project begins with a new material form, The Air Grid. Like the forms appearing in Piranesi's etchings, Air Grid is made from a kind of hatching, but Air Grid is hatched out of colour vectors, literally drawn into the air. The human eye is easily mesmerised by the Air Grid, scanning back and forth it reads the colour form as animated, in some sense alive. At the same time as the Italian architects were engaged in those activities that would eventually give birth to the Corviale Void, the painter Yves Klein, was creating The Architecture of the Air. Klein's work is of special interest to the project of the Corviale Void because of the important role of colour in the development of his thinking about architecture. By attending to Klein's parallel inquiry Air Grid is brought into dialogue with the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, who was one of the first thinkers to develop a physiological theory of colour. The important thing about Schopenhauer's thinking is the careful way he looked at physiological phenomena, regarding them as directly informed by metaphysical powers; for Schopenhauer Architecture too is a physiological matter and hence metaphysical. The concluding proposal for the Corviale Void presents a metaphysical archite

Doctor Watson Architects Incomplete Works Volume Two (Paperback): Victoria Watson Doctor Watson Architects Incomplete Works Volume Two (Paperback)
Victoria Watson
R810 Discovery Miles 8 100 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Doctor Watson Architects Incomplete Works Volume Four (Paperback): Victoria Watson Doctor Watson Architects Incomplete Works Volume Four (Paperback)
Victoria Watson
R740 R607 Discovery Miles 6 070 Save R133 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Doctor Watson Architects, Incomplete Works, Volume One (Paperback): Victoria Watson Doctor Watson Architects, Incomplete Works, Volume One (Paperback)
Victoria Watson
R850 Discovery Miles 8 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Doctor Watson Architects Incomplete Works Volume Three (Paperback): Victoria Watson Doctor Watson Architects Incomplete Works Volume Three (Paperback)
Victoria Watson
R810 Discovery Miles 8 100 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Haunting - Whitehead & Mies (Paperback): Victoria Watson Haunting - Whitehead & Mies (Paperback)
Victoria Watson
R576 Discovery Miles 5 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hatching - Piranesi & Tafuri (Paperback): Victoria Watson Hatching - Piranesi & Tafuri (Paperback)
Victoria Watson
R644 Discovery Miles 6 440 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Blood from the Quill (Paperback): Victoria Watson, Jon Wigglesworth, Gail Lawler Blood from the Quill (Paperback)
Victoria Watson, Jon Wigglesworth, Gail Lawler
R259 Discovery Miles 2 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Thrills 'n' Chills (Paperback): Victoria Watson, Harry Gallagher, Jean Laurie Thrills 'n' Chills (Paperback)
Victoria Watson, Harry Gallagher, Jean Laurie
R271 Discovery Miles 2 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Utopian Adventure: The Corviale Void (Hardcover, New Ed): Victoria Watson Utopian Adventure: The Corviale Void (Hardcover, New Ed)
Victoria Watson
R4,152 Discovery Miles 41 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is about contemporary issues in architecture and urbanism, taking the form of a project for The Corviale Void, a one kilometre long strip of urban space, immured in the notorious Corviale housing development in the Southwestern sector of Rome. Corviale is a bizarre object, single-minded in its idea, the history of Corviale can be traced to debates in Italian architecture culture of the 1960's, including Aldo Rossi's objection to urbanisation, as articulated in his books and projects. On the one hand the project for the Corviale Void begins with one of the original theorists of modern urbanisation and architecture, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, looking into his fascination with the insides of walls. On the other hand the project begins with a new material form, The Air Grid. Like the forms appearing in Piranesi's etchings, Air Grid is made from a kind of hatching, but Air Grid is hatched out of colour vectors, literally drawn into the air. The human eye is easily mesmerised by the Air Grid, scanning back and forth it reads the colour form as animated, in some sense alive. At the same time as the Italian architects were engaged in those activities that would eventually give birth to the Corviale Void, the painter Yves Klein, was creating The Architecture of the Air. Klein's work is of special interest to the project of the Corviale Void because of the important role of colour in the development of his thinking about architecture. By attending to Klein's parallel inquiry Air Grid is brought into dialogue with the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, who was one of the first thinkers to develop a physiological theory of colour. The important thing about Schopenhauer's thinking is the careful way he looked at physiological phenomena, regarding them as directly informed by metaphysical powers; for Schopenhauer Architecture too is a physiological matter and hence metaphysical. The concluding proposal for the Corviale Void presents a metaphysical archite

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