TY - BOOK

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 -