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Poetics of Underground Space: Architecture, Literature, Cinema book cover

1st Edition

Poetics of Underground Space Architecture, Literature, Cinema

By Antonello Boschi Copyright 2022
160 Pages 118 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

160 Pages 118 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

160 Pages 118 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This 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,... Read more
  1. Huddling

  2. Notes from the underground

  3. The city other

  4. Mimicry

  5. Novelty is but oblivion

  6. Stone skies

  7. Sensations

  8. Sous passages

  9. Buried high-rises

  10. Brightening the dark

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Antonello Boschi (1964) studied in Florence, where he graduated with Adolfo Natalini and gained a Ph.D. in Architectural and Urban Design. His essays, works and reviews have been published in Abitare, Area, Archi, Architécti, Arquitectura Viva, Bauwelt, Casabella, Detail, Diseño Interior, Interni, Materia, On Diseño, Rassegna, The Architectural Review. Major writings include Fenomenologia della facciata (Milan 2010), Ri-scritture/Re-Writings (Milan 2011), Filosofia del Nascosto. Costruire, pensare, abitare nel sottosuolo (Venice 2015), L’architettura della villa moderna (Macerata 2016–2018), Abbandoni e resistenze. Note per una fenomenologia della facciata nel Novecento (Pisa 2020). He is currently Associate Professor at the School of Engineering in Pisa, where he lectures on Architectural Composition.

"Antonello Boschi investigates the subject in a wide-ranging interdisciplinary, historical and theoretical survey. Inverting the classic dictates of surface construction, he explores possible strategies for transforming, expanding and changing the typical relationship between the mistreatment of land and unused subsoil."

Francesca Tagliabue, Abitare, excerpt from The charm of underground, https://www.abitare.it/en/research/publications/2022/05/27/antonello-boschi-underground-architecture-strategies/

"Quarries, subways, cellars, grottos and underpasses seem to overturn the rule that says buildings only exist above ground, facing the need to exploit urban space down to the last square centimetre. As Michael Jakob reminds us in his introduction, "architecture has always been lair, cavern, shelter, also and above all. So thinking about the underground means thinking about architecture."

Elena Sommariva, excerpt from domus 1069 June 2022

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