The architecture of transit : searching for the sublime in motorway architecture between the Alps and Naples / Sue Barr ; essays by Davide Papotti, David Heathcote.

Stuttgart : Hartmann Books, [2019]
©2019

102 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm

Searching for the sublime in motorway architecture between the Alps and Naples0Motorways are architectural megastructures in the landscape, crossing nations, natural or political borders making previously remote places accessible to development, tourism and trade. Between the Alps and Naples motorways connect highly complex topographies and urban conditions, often retracing antique trade paths and routes taken by northern Romantics on the Grand Tour, searching for arcadian and sublime landscapes as painted by de Loutherbourg, Claude and Turner. 0The experience of the sublime in untamed nature became a highlight on the Grand Tour. Landscapes that once took days to cross, today we speed through via motorways over concrete bridges, ramps, through galleries and tunnels. But with this speed comes a new accelerated and simultaneously calm sublime of concrete motorway megastructures.

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Barr, Sue.
Photography, Artistic.
Roads Design and construction Pictorial works.
Underpasses Pictorial works.
Photographie artistique.
Routes Conception et construction Ouvrages illustrés.
Passages inférieurs Ouvrages illustrés.
art photography.
Underpasses
Highway planning
Roads Design and construction

Pictorial works

Papotti, Davide, writer of supplementary textual content.
Heathcote, David, writer of supplementary textual content.
Barr, Sue. Photographs. Selections.
Architecture of transit.
Architecture of transit. German.
Architecture of transit. French.

Location: Library main 309878
Call No.: BIB 255021
Status: Available