New York is going crazy.
Parentheses| N° d'inventaire | 26212 |
| Format | 16 x 23 |
| Détails | 317 p., illustrated, paperback. |
| Publication | Marseille, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782863643952 |
Manhattan is the arena where the final act of the Western world is being played out. With the population explosion and the invasion of new technologies, Manhattan, since the mid-19th century, has become the laboratory of a new culture—that of congestion—a mythical island where the collective unconscious of a new metropolitan way of life is being realized, a factory of the artificial where the natural and the real have ceased to exist. New York delirium is a " retroactive manifesto ", an interpretation of the unformulated theory underlying the development of Manhattan; it is the story of the intrigues of an urban planning that, from its origins in Coney Island to the theoreticians of the skyscraper, exploded the original grid. This polemical and prescient book (published in 1978), illustrates the relationship between a mutating metropolitan universe and the only architecture it can produce. It also says that, often, architecture generates culture.
Manhattan is the arena where the final act of the Western world is being played out. With the population explosion and the invasion of new technologies, Manhattan, since the mid-19th century, has become the laboratory of a new culture—that of congestion—a mythical island where the collective unconscious of a new metropolitan way of life is being realized, a factory of the artificial where the natural and the real have ceased to exist. New York delirium is a " retroactive manifesto ", an interpretation of the unformulated theory underlying the development of Manhattan; it is the story of the intrigues of an urban planning that, from its origins in Coney Island to the theoreticians of the skyscraper, exploded the original grid. This polemical and prescient book (published in 1978), illustrates the relationship between a mutating metropolitan universe and the only architecture it can produce. It also says that, often, architecture generates culture.