The Pilings of Venice
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The Pilings of Venice. / Reeh, Henrik.
Macerata : Quodlibet, 2023. 104 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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T1 - The Pilings of Venice
AU - Reeh, Henrik
N1 - Denne bog kombinerer forfatterens egne fotografier (ca. 185) og tekster i ti kapitler samt indledning og konklusion. Forfatteren har også selv stået for den grundlæggende grafiske tilrettelæggelse.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - It takes the gaze of a child to discover the pilings of Venice. To adult visitors walking on their own, the city usually appears in otherwise spectacular ways. Canals and lagoon, piazzas and palaces, monuments and mosaics, bridges and slabs, bricks and marble: the list is long. Extraordinary surfaces are there to be explored, wherever you go.To be sure, there are pilings in the foreground: wooden, grayish pilings are accessories in the urban setting. But as neutral extras, these pilings fade into the dramatic cityscape. It is not until a child or the child within you points to their pervasive presence that you start paying attention to piling as an essential component of the Venetian urban space. The number of ordinary pilings for boats and bridges is so impressive that it soon becomes difficult not to delve into their material and spatial variety. For pilings are omnipresent in the waters of the canal city as well as in the lagoon surrounding it.For more than a millennium and a half, the city of Venice has evolved in the vitalizing and restless realms of the lagoon. Within this cultural environment, pilings offered holds to boats and fixpoints to people. Moreover, they generated spaces for urban activity as well as for human contemplation. Thanks to pilings, the liquid and horizontal surfaces become spaces for heterogeneous urban practices. Like poles of an electro-magnetic field, the piles in the waters of Venice delineate intermediate spaces in a city of becoming. Complex yet overlooked, the pilings of Venice provide spatial and cultural hieroglyphs of a magic city.
AB - It takes the gaze of a child to discover the pilings of Venice. To adult visitors walking on their own, the city usually appears in otherwise spectacular ways. Canals and lagoon, piazzas and palaces, monuments and mosaics, bridges and slabs, bricks and marble: the list is long. Extraordinary surfaces are there to be explored, wherever you go.To be sure, there are pilings in the foreground: wooden, grayish pilings are accessories in the urban setting. But as neutral extras, these pilings fade into the dramatic cityscape. It is not until a child or the child within you points to their pervasive presence that you start paying attention to piling as an essential component of the Venetian urban space. The number of ordinary pilings for boats and bridges is so impressive that it soon becomes difficult not to delve into their material and spatial variety. For pilings are omnipresent in the waters of the canal city as well as in the lagoon surrounding it.For more than a millennium and a half, the city of Venice has evolved in the vitalizing and restless realms of the lagoon. Within this cultural environment, pilings offered holds to boats and fixpoints to people. Moreover, they generated spaces for urban activity as well as for human contemplation. Thanks to pilings, the liquid and horizontal surfaces become spaces for heterogeneous urban practices. Like poles of an electro-magnetic field, the piles in the waters of Venice delineate intermediate spaces in a city of becoming. Complex yet overlooked, the pilings of Venice provide spatial and cultural hieroglyphs of a magic city.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - urban culture
KW - Venedig
KW - Proust, Marcel
KW - material culture
KW - memory
KW - childhood
KW - sensibility
KW - pilings
KW - urban spaces
KW - canals
KW - visual attention
KW - Urban Architecture
KW - John Ruskin
KW - aesthetics
KW - urbanity
KW - tactility
KW - lagoon
KW - Venice
KW - perception of space
KW - everyday life
UR - https://www.quodlibet.it/libro/9788822920942
M3 - Book
SN - 9788822920942
BT - The Pilings of Venice
PB - Quodlibet
CY - Macerata
ER -
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