MAPPA URBIS.
PARENTHESES| N° d'inventaire | 25124 |
| Format | 240 x 160 mm |
| Détails | 160 p., PAPERBACK. |
| Publication | Marseille, 2021 |
| Etat | NINE |
| ISBN | 9782863643815 |
Like Rome, there were capitals that were the "navels of the world," the spiritual beacons of civilizations. Today, when it comes to cities, eternity no longer holds sway. None of them is the center or the map of the world.
Under the influence of a devouring modernity, they swell, soon overflowing the boards of the guide maps. Sometimes they move, die or change their names.
A rare thing: no two cities are alike. And when the planisphere seeks to embrace the world, the scale of the city map reveals—sometimes in extreme detail—their particular realities.
Made of marble, paper, fabric - and chosen like pieces from an anthology - the plans gathered here summon cartographic detail and watercolor lines, political economy and poetry, the rational and the inventive..., offering themselves to be read as so many stories, dreams and adventures.
As the pages turn, they draw before our eyes a curious urban atlas which, more than finding our way, invites us to lose ourselves.
Like Rome, there were capitals that were the "navels of the world," the spiritual beacons of civilizations. Today, when it comes to cities, eternity no longer holds sway. None of them is the center or the map of the world.
Under the influence of a devouring modernity, they swell, soon overflowing the boards of the guide maps. Sometimes they move, die or change their names.
A rare thing: no two cities are alike. And when the planisphere seeks to embrace the world, the scale of the city map reveals—sometimes in extreme detail—their particular realities.
Made of marble, paper, fabric - and chosen like pieces from an anthology - the plans gathered here summon cartographic detail and watercolor lines, political economy and poetry, the rational and the inventive..., offering themselves to be read as so many stories, dreams and adventures.
As the pages turn, they draw before our eyes a curious urban atlas which, more than finding our way, invites us to lose ourselves.