Traces, LAN
By: [authors, Benoit Jallon, Umberto Napolitano ; editorial coordination, LAN, Actar Publishers: Ricardo Devesa ; English translation, Claudio Cambon and Walter Hackman]
Contributors: Napolitano, Umberto, author; Devesa, Ricardo, 1971- editor; Cambon, Claudio, translator; Hackman, Walter, translator
Publisher: Actar Publishers
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 623
ISBN-13: 9781940291024
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Cities and towns; City planning; Psychological aspects; Architecture; Human factors; Place (Philosophy) in architecture; Modern Architecture
Other titles: Traces :; Traces
Description: The city is the point of departure and arrival for the "architectural experience." It is, therefore, a palpable, external fact as well as a product of the mind, an abstraction. This book attempts to recreate this trajectory and to describe this exchange between the mind and the world through the traces it has produced. Two separate moments lie at the heart of this book's very structure and shape: one when the city is the site of an experience and of reflection and the other, when architects modify this site through a new project. The white notebooks contain writings, reflections, and observations collected over a ten-year period about our urban experiences. In fact, they hold the names of the cities that gave rise to them. These notes were often written during our travels, on the occasion of conferences or projects.
Notes: Statement of responsibility from page 622.

Includes bibliographical references.