Somewhere over the square
By: text, film and photography by Cătălin D. Constantin ; [translation; Mihai Murariu]
Contributors: Murariu, Mihai, translator
Publisher: Peter Pan ART; Irish Architectural Archive
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Bucharest; Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9786069500019; 9780995625822
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Plazas; Pictorial works; Public spaces; Aerial photography in city planning
Description: "This book offers a new way of looking at the geographical spaces occupied by urban squares, proposing a different perspective on European urban squares. This might strike one as a bold statement, but it should first and foremost be taken literally. The photographs in this book, taken with a professional drone, show an aerial view of squares in a number of historical European cities. Famous squares in well-known cities across Europe, from Lisbon to Istanbul, are presented alongside lesser-known but no less interesting squares. Drone photography offers a bird's eye view. This is one of the few instances where technical and artistic languages successfully overlap. The bird's eye view is, almost without exception, spectacular. This view reveals something we might have only intuited until now: a deeper structure, which points to a new perspective on squares in a figurative sense as well"--Back cover
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 240) and index