NIGHTSCAPES Nocturnal landscapes

Description

This book shows how night redefines the framework of thought and action in the realm of the imaginary, of territorial planning and of the practice of landscape, the aim being to arrive at a contemporary urbanism based on perceptual experience.

The book is structured in three parts: the first covers the originality and value of the experience of the nocturnal landscape for thought and creativity, the second defines infrastructure as the nocturnal landscape’s real scale and strategy, while the third illustrates examples of nocturnal contemporary architecture and landscape.

CONTENTS

Introduction. Contemporary nocturnal landscapes
The nightscape as experience, symbol and representation (Marc Armengaud)

• The nightscape, a natural enigma
• The nightscape, cradle of thought
• Night as spectacle

The infrastructural nature of the nightscape. Night as revealing of the large-scale, of the networked territory (Matthias Armengaud)

• The infrastructure of light: the network/the cathedral
• The infrastructures of mobility as territorial series
• Apparition of the third outer ring: in solids and voids

City by night: the illuminated city (Alessandra Cianchetta)

• Selected urban lighting projects: Piero Castiglioni, Yann Kersalé and Motoko Ishii
• Billboard buildings/Architectures in the night
• Temporary nocturnal cities

Appendix. Night gardens: nocturnal plants

192 pages / 21 x 15 cm / English,Spanish