- Titel: Solà-Morales’s Terrain Vague: Text and Contexts: Formulation, Dissemination and Reception: Perception and Intervention Processes at the Turn of the Millennium
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- Erschienen: ETH Zurich, 2018
- Sprache: Englisch
- Schlagwörter: Recreational & performing arts ; Architecture ; THEORY OF ARCHITECTURAL CRITICISM ; Stalker ; The arts ; genealogy ; Terrain vague ; Stalking Detroit ; Lara Almarcegui ; URBAN PLANNING (BUILT ENVIRONMENT) ; HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE ; linguistics ; Ignasi de Solà-Morales ; Language ; Social sciences ; Photography & photographs ; URBAN DEVELOPMENT (URBAN PLANNING) ; Urban Voids ; Civic & landscape art ; Buildings ; Theory of architecture ; Luc Lévesque ; insignia ; Biography ; [...]
- Beschreibung: Shaped by concern and curiosity for the state of indeterminacy in the public realm, the premise of this research is that questions of power, resistance and identity are mainly contested in undefined spaces within, as well as on the outskirts of, contemporary cities. The traditional concept of the city as a relatively contained and cohesive entity has been increasingly questioned by subsequent decentralization, suburbanization and fragmentation in the way the built-environment is perceived. The diversity inherent today in the concept of 'city' is greater than the capacity of the available vocabulary to define new emerging spaces. Within the contemporary diffused urban fabric, new globalized landscapes merge city and nature into an uncontrollable condition. Some of these indeterminate spaces are neither properly defined nor well situated within the urban discourse. In this respect, a need surfaced in the 1990s for innovative and alternative tools to delineate, represent and intervene in such indefinite spaces. The notion of terrain vague, which defines not only physical aspects of indeterminate spaces, but also how we perceive and represent these, emerged out of this context. Such a notion, which appears to combine seemingly antagonist meanings of both vagueness and territoriality, and of both fear and hope, holds a strong potential for urban change. It is capable of responding to multiple issues posed by the contemporary urban fabric made of fragmented diversified elements. Accordingly, approaches and reflections on terrains vagues have become increasingly significant in the last twenty years, and the notion has evolved in marked urban approaches towards a discourse larger than a mere idea. The term was coined in the fields of architecture and urbanism by Catalan theoretician and architect Ignasi de Solà-Morales in the mid-1990s through his essay of the same name: "Terrain Vague". He described spaces that fall out of the normal urban organization due to their inefficiency to serve a primary function in the ...
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