Visualizing The Invisible Towards An Urban Space

Read, Stephen and Camilo Pinilla (eds)

ISBN 10: 9085940036 / ISBN 13: 9789085940036

Published by Techne Press (2006), Amsterdam, 2006

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No signatures. Very slight rubbing at ends of spine. ; 194 pages. Illustrated card wrappers. Colour illustrations. Page dimensions: 240mm x 162mm. "This book takes on 'the urban' as a force and vector and process in its own right - as a phenomenon whose development is driven by interactivities, dynamics and tendencies rather than being a self-evident result of a planned composition." - from the rear wrapper blurb. ; 8vo. Seller Inventory # 8518

Bibliographic Details

Title: Visualizing The Invisible Towards An Urban ...

Publisher: Techne Press (2006), Amsterdam

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket

Edition: First Edition.

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Synopsis:

Visualizing the Invisible explores a possible nature of the contemporary urban, drawing on structuralist, post-structuralist and 'organic' philosophy (Whitehead, Gregory Bateson, Lefebvre, Foucault, Bergson, Deleuze, Latour, and others). It also looks at the city itself - in its origins as polis, in its spatial evolution, and in the hybridizing properties of network.

With contributions from: Patrick Healy, Gerhard Bruyns, Deborah Hauptmann, Stephen Read, and John Law.

Synopsis:

"Visualizing the Invisible" takes up the challenge of both producing original insights into the nature of the contemporary urban, and of using these insights as a basis for the design of the contemporary city. It explores a possible nature of the contemporary urban, drawing on structuralist, post-structuralist and 'organic' philosophy (Whitehead, Gregory Bateson, Lefebvre, Foucault, Bergson, Deleuze, Latour, and others). It also looks at the city itself - in its origins as polis, in its spatial evolution, and in the hybridizing properties of network. The book presents projects in full colour, showing how some of these ideas and concerns about space, time, hybridity and form translate into real work in the Spacelab design studio.