Itinerari di architettura e paesaggio = Architecture and landscape itineraries. Barcelona, Lyon, Paris

COCCO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA;SIDDI, CESARINA

2009-01-01

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Abstract

The three itineraries in this volume are devoted to Barcelona, Lyon and Paris. They do not describe the cities overall but rather offer a selection of projects that illustrate how the cities' urban fabrics, spaces and buildings can be reread and rewritten. In this sense, each itinerary reveals the intensity with which cities update their languages offering structural resources that can respond to the new needs of contemporary society - both on local and international levels. Each itinerary is introduced through a plan that synthesizes the context's urban form; the single projects are briefly described in text and photographic narratives. This book is a first selection of a series of case studies within a European research project devoted to the reading of architecture and landscape utilizing the itinerary as an interpretative and narrative device.