Main entry:

Solà-Morales i Rubió, Manuel de.

Title & Author:

A matter of things / Manuel de Solà-Morales ; with contributions by Kenneth Frampton and Hans Ibelings.

Publication:

Rotterdam : NAi Publishers, ©2008.

Description:

223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Preface / Kenneth Frampton -- Urbanity / Hans Ibelings -- A matter of things -- To create a place (things invented): Saint-Nazaire, Ville-Port ;Trieste, Porto Vecchio ; Porto, Passeio Atlantic ; Genoa, Cantieri Navali ; Groningen, Winschoterkade ; Den Haag, Scheveningen -- The strategic gaze -- A concensed form (things overlapping): Alcoi, LaSang ; Leuven, Stationsplein ; Barcelona, Sant Andreu ; Arnhem, Rijnboog -- The compulsive gaze -- Heterogenous accumulation (things in conflict): Berlin, Alexanderplatz ; Rotterdam, Alexanderpolder ; Antwerp, Het Eijlande ; Antwerp, Operaplein ; Terrassa, Torresana ; Barcelona, Poble Nou ; Thessaloniki, Waterfront -- The anxious gaze -- Selected writings: 2005 For a 'material' urbanity ; 2000 Against the universal metropolis ; 1995 Territories without a model ; 1994 Cut Cities ; 1992 Public spaces / Collective spaces ; 1992 Periphery as a project ; 1987 Another modern tradition.

Summary:

"This monograph brings together the work of the Spanish architect and urban planner Manuel de Solà-Morales in book form for the first time. The publication concentrates on his most important projects and realizations of recent years. Solà-Morales has achieved successful interventions in the urban landscape in many places in Europe: from Antwerp to Trieste, from Groningen to Porto, and from Barcelona to The Hague. For Solà-Morales the city does not consist of abstractions, but of concrete, tangible things. His projects could be regarded as an urban architecture, at the interface of architecture and urban planning. By intervening in this physical reality in a precise manner, with a building, with public space, or sometimes with nothing more than the layout of a public space, but always with concrete things, Solà-Morales effects changes in the city that often transcend the physical or spatial dimensions of the intervention. All the projects are documented extensively in word and image. Besides texts by Manuel de Solà-Morales himself, the book includes a comprehensive essay by Kenneth Frampton about the architect's work and ideas."--Publisher.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9789056625207 (paperback)
9056625209 (paperback)

Subject:

Solà-Morales i Rubió, Manuel de.
Solà-Morales i Rubió, Manuel de Catalogues.
SolÀ-Morales, Ignasi De, 1942-2001.
City planning.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Planejamento territorial urbano.
Arquitetura moderna Século 20.
Arquitetura moderna Século 21.
Stadsplanering (estetisk) 1990-talet sekelskiftet 2000.
Arkitektur 1990-talet sekelskiftet 2000.

Form/genre:

Writings.

Added entries:

Frampton, Kenneth.
Ibelings, Hans.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 260325
Call No.: BIB 191239
Status: Available