Notes from the under world : an architectural exploration / Stefano Corbo ; edited by Cheryl Weber.

Main entry:

Corbo, Stefano, author.

Title & Author:

Notes from the under world : an architectural exploration / Stefano Corbo ; edited by Cheryl Weber.

Publication:

Atglen, PA : Schiffer Publishing, [2019]

Description:

143 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 23 cm

Notes:
On the title page and cover the "R" and "L" in world in the title are printed upside-down
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Upside down: the making of the city -- Design as warfare -- Life and death in the underworld -- Emerging from darkness -- On nature and artifice.

Summary:

"Since early times, humans have explored the space below their feet for different purposes: to flee persecution and war, to find protection from severe climates, to improve urban life - and more recently, to solve environmental problems. A rare look at old and new subterranean structures from an architect's perspective, this seminal book examines the underworld through the lenses of wartime, life and death, religious and secular rituals, and adaptive reuse. The atlas of 80+ international projects range widely in time period and type, from a house in a defunct nuclear silo to an Arctic seed bank, a Beirut nightclub, art venues, an Italian winery, and a monastery carved into a mountain. All are surprising examples of how invisible man-made spaces follow the same cultural and economic cues as their visible counterparts and are places where we store, hide, repress, and live."-- (Source of summary not specified)

ISBN:

9780764358401 (hardcover)
0764358405 (hardcover)

Subject:

Underground architecture.
Underground architecture History.
Underground areas.
Architecture souterraine.
Architecture souterraine Histoire.
Zones souterraines.
underground environments.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319244
Call No.: 319244
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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