Title & Author:

Open city : existential urbanity / edited and designed by Diane Lewis & Daniel Meridor, faculty, with Matthew Hitscherich ; [issued under the auspices of] the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union, New York [and] the Austrian Frederick & Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation.

Publication:

Milan : Charta, [2015]

Description:

368 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 38 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface / Jamshed Bharucha -- Introduction / Richard Meier -- Auguration / Diane Lewis -- Strata & strategies / Barry Bergdoll -- The mark / Peter Schubert -- The urban lens / Francois de Menil -- Young Kiesler Prize statement / Peter Bogner, Andreas Mailath-Pokorny -- Ideas city: the Bowery / Karen Wong -- Studio 2013: The Bowery: architect & continuum : When I conduct the orchestra of space / Frederick Kiesler ; Architecture from within / Daniel Meridor ; Frederick Kiesler: art improvement: a model for apprehending universal relations / Monika Pessler -- Studio 2012: Templum: the ancient in the present : Tragic columns / Mary Stieber ; Theatron now: the ancient in the present / David Gersten -- Studio 2010: Autonomies & Spazialismo : Art/architecture: invitation & intention / Calvin Tsao ; Know your tools / Samuel Anderson -- Studio 2009: Vuotare: to void : Vuotare to void / Peter Schubert -- Studio 2008: Tower/Acropolis : Tower/Acropolis: together with time / Thomas Tsang -- Studio 2007: Spaceblock: structure, art, space : Art block / Catherine Ann Somerville Venart ; Processing power / Roger Duffy -- Studio 2006: Cities of catastrophe: from Atlantis to New Orleans : "One upon a time": a tale of two cities / Anthony Vidler -- Healing the city / Mersiha Veledar ; Voodoo / Mack Scogin -- Studio 2005: Domus/locus : Embers / Merrill Elam -- Studio 2004-2005: Architecture within architecture : Jacopo Sansovino & the myth of Venice: the transformation of Piazza S. Marco (1537-70) / Daniel Sherer ; Michelangelo & La Tourette / Emma Fuller ; An anecdotal topography / David Turnbill -- Studio 2003-2004: Civic still life: natura morta : The implicit city / Guido Zuliani -- Studio 2002-2003: Post blast: Lower Manhattan : Walking the city / William Singer ; Städtbau / Georg Windeck -- Studio 2001-2002: Rome, Berlin, New York : Rome/Berlin/New York / Diane Lewis -- Studio 2014: Staging: (La Commedia dell' Arte as the roots of a unique humanitarian Institution of civic & global significance : La Commedia / Bob Estrin -- Epilogue / Anthony Vidler ; The practice of the open city / Francesco Pellizzi.

Summary:

"An anthology of architecture created and advocated by the students of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union in studios conducted by the architect Diane Lewis, professor, with a team of notable colleagues from 2001-2014. The drawings and models are accompanied by project descriptions that regard any contemporary intervention into the city as an integral work of architecture, art, and sustainable infrastructure"-- Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

9788881588824
888158882X

Subject:

Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture.
Architecture, Modern 21st century Designs and plans.
City planning Designs and plans.
Architecture Study and teaching (Higher) New York (State) New York.
Architecture 21e siècle Dessins et plans.
Architecture, Modern
Architecture Study and teaching (Higher)
City planning
New York (State) New York

Form/genre:

Architectural drawings

Added entries:

Lewis, Diane (Diane H.), editor.
Meridor, Daniel, editor.
Hitscherich, Matthew, editor.
Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, sponsoring body.

Subtitle on cover: Architecture of the city studio, 2001-2014

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 289746
Call No.: BIB 232350
Status: Available