Poetics of underground space : architecture, literature, cinema / Antonello Boschi ; foreword by Michael Jakob.

Main entry:

Boschi, Antonello, 1964- author.

Title & Author:

Poetics of underground space : architecture, literature, cinema / Antonello Boschi ; foreword by Michael Jakob.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2022.
©2022

Description:

xi, 147 pages : illustrations, plans ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Huddling -- Notes from the underground -- The city other -- Mimicry -- Novelty is but oblivion -- Stone skies -- Sensations -- Sous passages -- Buried high-rises -- Brightening the dark.

Summary:

"The exploitation of land, especially in areas of particular value, has given rise to the need to reformulate the usual approach to building. If the development of urban sprawl, its infrastructure and its networks, generate increasingly compromised landscapes, what are the possible strategies to transform, expand and change the usual relationship between abuse of soil and unused subsoil? The book investigates the relationship architecture has with the underground. It provides a broad ranging historical and theoretical survey of, and critical reflection on, ideas pertaining to the creation and occupation of underground space. It overturns the classic dictates of construction on the surface and through numerous examples explores recoveries of existing voids, excavations, caves, quarries, grottos and burrows. Psychological, philosophical, literary and cinematographic legacies of underground architecture are mixed with the compositional, typological and constructive expedients, to produce a rich, diverse and compelling argument for these spaces"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781032069920 hardback
1032069929 hardback
9781032103624 paperback
1032103620 paperback
(ebook)
9781003214960

Subject:

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

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315000
Call No.: 315000
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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