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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Illustrations
Introduction: Between authored architecture and the non-authored city
Three artefacts
Why Venice?
Organic, Classical, Modern
The city and the imagination as networks
Material and immaterial: Venice and its representations
Authored and authorless – actual and possible
Method
The structure of The Venice Variations
Contributions and significance
1 City-craft: Assembling the city
Introduction
Conquering space: from an archipelago to interconnected communities
The amphibious city – the water and pedestrian networks
A multitude of solitudes: from parochial communities to the urban complex
Between parish communities and the state
Social networks
Palaces, confraternities, guilds
The generic city
Coupling, interlocking, decentralising – Venice as a particular city
The Most Serene Republic: interpretations of Venice’s Myth
Four-pointed star centrality: spatialising economic potential and institutional dynamics
Assembling the Myth: urban form, urban ideology and the social fabric
Postscript
2 Statecraft: A remarkably well-ordered society
Introduction: the interlocking spheres of city-craft and statecraft1
Imago urbis
A reformed discipline
Architecture and the Myth of Venice
A Byzantine chapel and a new Roman forum
The map of de’ Barbari
Enlarging, linking, unifying
Spatial coordination and scenographic progression
A navigational network and an axis mundi
Ordering, classifying, separating
Techniques of integration: mythography and historiography
Architecture and ritual processions
Vecchi and giovani: Palladio and the scenography of the lagoon
Architecture and representations
City-craft and statecraft
Postscript
3 Story-craft: The imagination as combinatorial machine in Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities
Introduction
Invisible Cities – in search of intelligibility
Two models of knowledge
‘A splendid hard diamond takes shape’ – the text as a digital file
The world and its copies – emergent local symmetries
‘This route was only one of the many that opened’
‘The answer it gives to a question of yours’ – emergent global patterns
Il Milione – the work and its author(s)
‘The great Khan owns an atlas’ – the spatio-temporal imagination
Imperium and emporium – the role of Venice in Invisible Cities
Postscript
4 Crafting architectural space: Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital and the three paradigms
Introduction
Part 1: The Venice Hospital
A shapeless hospital
The Rapport Technique
Signification
The Hospital – the city–building encounter
A hospital that is like Venice
Part 2: Geometry and space from Palladio to Le Corbusier
The Organic, Classical and Modern paradigms
Geometry, space and the invention of architectural notation
Andrea Palladio – identity between design and building
Variably standard – geometric control and variable space
Modern practices
Non-standard variation
Generic relations and the architectural imagination
5 The Venice Variations: Tracing the Architectural Imagination
Venice outlived
The three artefacts
Venice
Invisible Cities and the Venice Hospital
Objects and fields
An age-old question
Authored and authorless
Actual and virtual
The imagination complex
Possible worlds
Voyage to Venetia
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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