TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boschi,Antonello
TI  - Poetics of underground space
SN  - 9781032069920
AV  - NA2542.7 .B67 2022
U1  - 720/.473 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Underground architecture
KW  - Underground areas
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Huddling -- Notes from the underground -- The city other -- Mimicry -- Novelty is but oblivion -- Stone skies -- Sensations -- Sous passages -- Buried high-rises -- Brightening the dark
N2  - "The exploitation of land, especially in areas of particular value, has given rise to the need to reformulate the usual approach to building. If the development of urban sprawl, its infrastructure and its networks, generate increasingly compromised landscapes, what are the possible strategies to transform, expand and change the usual relationship between abuse of soil and unused subsoil? The book investigates the relationship architecture has with the underground. It provides a broad ranging historical and theoretical survey of, and critical reflection on, ideas pertaining to the creation and occupation of underground space. It overturns the classic dictates of construction on the surface and through numerous examples explores recoveries of existing voids, excavations, caves, quarries, grottos and burrows. Psychological, philosophical, literary and cinematographic legacies of underground architecture are mixed with the compositional, typological and constructive expedients, to produce a rich, diverse and compelling argument for these spaces"--
ER  -