The Venice Variations
The Venice Variations: Tracing the Architectural Imagination
Sophia Psarra
UCL Press, April 2018
Hardcover/Paperback | 6 x 9 inches | 322 pages | 140 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978?1787352407 (PB) | £22.99 (PB)
Publisher Description:
From the myth of Arcadia through to the twenty-first century, ideas about sustainability ? how we imagine better urban environments ? remain persistently relevant, and raise recurring questions. How do cities evolve as complex spaces nurturing both urban creativity and the fortuitous art of discovery, and by which mechanisms do they foster imagination and innovation" While past utopias were conceived in terms of an ideal geometry, contemporary exemplary models of urban design seek technological solutions of optimal organization. The Venice Variations explores Venice as a prototypical city that may hold unique answers to the ancient narrative of utopia. Venice was not the result of a preconceived ideal but the pragmatic outcome of social and economic networks of communication. Its urban creativity, though, came to represent the quintessential combination of place and institutions of its time.
Through a discussion of Venice and two other works owing their inspiration to this city ? Italo Calvino?s Invisible Cities and Le Corbusier?s Venice Hospital ? Sophia Psarra describes Venice as a system that starts to resemble a highly probabilistic ?algorithm?. The rapidly escalating processes of urban development around our big cities...
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