Book launch

Monday 17 January 2011 – 6.30PM

Architectural Association School of Architecture

AA Bookshop
Architectural Association
School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES
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Teresa Stoppani
Paradigm Islands: Manhattan and Venice. Discourses on Architecture and the City

Teresa Stoppani in conversation with Fred Scott

Concerning architecture and the city, built, imagined and narrated, this book focuses on Manhattan and Venice, but considers architecture as an intellectual and spatial process rather than a product.  A critical look at the making of Manhattan and Venice provides a background to addressing the dynamic redefinition and making of space today. The gradual processes of adjustment, the making of a constantly changing dense space, the emphasis on forming rather than on figure, the incorporation of new forms and languages through their adaptation and transformation, make both Manhattan and Venice, in different ways, the ideal places to contextualize and address the issue of an architecture of the dynamic.

Teresa Stoppani is Reader in Architecture at the University of Greenwich, UK and has been appointed Professor of Architectural Theory at the University of Technology Sydney.

Paradigm Islands: Manhattan and Venice. Discourses on Architecture and the City is published by Routledge   ISBN 978-0-415-56185-3