Nightscapes = Paisajes nocturnos = Nocturnal landscapes / Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, Alessandra Cianchetta.

Main entry:

Armengaud, Marc.

Title & Author:

Nightscapes = Paisajes nocturnos = Nocturnal landscapes / Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, Alessandra Cianchetta.

Publication:

Description:

192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm

Series:

Land & scape series

Notes:
"GG"--Cover
Covers extend to form additional leaves.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-188).
Introduction: Contemporary nocturnal landscapes -- The nightscape as experience, symbol and represantation -- The nightscape, a natural enigma -- The nightscape, cradle of thought -- Night as spectacle -- The infrastructural nature of the nightscape. Night as revealing of the large-scale, of the networked territory -- The infrastructure of light: the network/the cathedral -- The infrastructure of mobility as territorial series -- Apparition of the third outer ring: in solids and voids -- City by night: the illuminated city -- Selected urban lighting projects: Piero Castiglioni, Yann Kersalé and Motoko Ishii -- Billboard buildings/Architectures in the night -- Temporary nocturnal cities -- Appendix: Night gardens: nocturnal plants -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Photo credits -- Acknowledgements.
English, Spanish.
Parallel text in Spanish and English.

Summary:

This book shows how night redefines the framework of thought and action in the realm of the imaginary, of territorial planning and of the practice of landscape, the aim being to arrive at a contemporary urbanism based on perceptual experience.

Resources:
TOC

ISBN:

9788425221385 (pbk.)
8425221382 (pbk.)

Subject:

Municipal lighting Social aspects.
Urban landscape architecture.
Light in architecture.
Éclairage public Aspect social.
Paysage urbain.
Lumière en architecture.
urban landscapes.
Night people
Sociology, Urban
Arquitectura del paisaje.
Landskapsarkitektur.
Stadsplanekonst belysning.
Arkitektur belysning.
Night
Cultural landscapes
Municipal lighting

Added entries:

Armengaud, Matthias.
Cianchetta, Alessandra, 1971-
Land & scape series.

Paisajes nocturnos
Nocturnal landscapes

Holdings:

Location: Library main 263250
Call No.: BIB 194417
Status: Available

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