CIANCHETTA, ALESSANDRA / ARMENGAUD, MATHIAS / ARMENGAUD, MARC
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Table of contents:
Introduction. Contemporary nocturnal landscapes
The nightscape as experience, symbol and representation (Marc Armengaud)
The nightscape, a natural enigma
The nightscape, cradle of thought
Night as spectacle
The infrastructural nature of the nightscape. Night as revealing of the large-scale, of the networked territory (Matthias Armengaud)
The infrastructure of light: the network/the cathedral
The infrastructures of mobility as territorial series
Apparition of the third outer ring: in solids and voids
City by night: the illuminated city (Alessandra Cianchetta)
Selected urban lighting projects: Piero Castiglioni, Yann Kersalé and Motoko Ishii
Billboard buildings/Architectures in the night
Temporary nocturnal cities
Appendix. Night gardens: nocturnal plants
Conclusion
Bibliography
Photo credits
Acknowledgements
This book shows how night redefines the framework of thought and action in the realm of the imaginary, of territorial planning and of the practice of landscape, the aim being to arrive at a contemporary urbanism based on perceptual experience.
The book is structured in three parts: the first covers the originality and value of the experience of the nocturnal landscape for thought and creativity, the second defines infrastructure as the nocturnal landscape's real scale and strategy, while the third illustrates examples of nocturnal contemporary architecture and landscape.
