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X-urbanism : architecture and the American city / Mario Gandelsonas.
Main entry:

Gandelsonas, Mario, 1938-

Title & Author:

X-urbanism : architecture and the American city / Mario Gandelsonas.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©1999.

Description:

189 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 1. The Western City: Seven Urban Scenes -- Ch. 2. The Identity of the American City -- Ch. 3. The City as the Object of Architecture -- Ch. 4. Drawing the American City. New York. Los Angeles. Boston. New Haven. Chicago. Des Moines. Atlantic City.
Current Copyright Fee: GBP8.80 0.
Library copy: author's autograph presentation copy to Phyllis Lambert.
Summary:

For Mario Gandelsonas, the American city is essential to the understanding of modern urbanism, its practice, and the city of the 21st century. Through a series of remarkable analytical drawings, X-Urbanism opens up the architectural discourse to the questions raised by the American city: the generation of new configurations of urban space and form, and the production of different conditions of urban viewing. X-Urbanism presents both an examination and a visual deployment of the formal properties of the American city, blurring the traditional oppositions between fabric and object, figure and ground, writing and reading. It reveals the hidden structures of New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, New Haven, Des Moines, and Atlantic City.
In the process, X-Urbanism confounds our expectations, showing us such things as the subtle order of chaotic Los Angeles and the random disruptions of Chicago's rigorous grid.

ISBN:

1568981511 (pbk.)
9781568981512 (pbk.)

Subject:

Gandelsonas, Mario, 1938-
Space (Architecture) United States.
City planning United States.
Espace (Architecture) États-Unis.
Urbanisme États-Unis.
City planning.
Space (Architecture)
Geschichte
Stadtplanung
Städtebau
Stadtgestaltung
Bouwkunst.
Stadsplanning.
Urbanisatie.
USA Städtebau Geschichte 1900-1999.
United States.
USA

Added entries:

Presentation copies. Gandelsonas, Mario, 1938- Inscription.
Provenance. Lambert, Phyllis. Inscription.
Autographs. Gandelsonas, Mario, 1938-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 209144
Call No.: NA44.G195.A35 1999
Status: Available

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