For Mario Gandelsonas, the American city is essential to the understanding of modern urbanism, its practice, and the city of the 21st century. Through a series of remarkable analytical drawings, X-Urbanism opens up the architectural discourse to the questions raised by the American city: the generation of new configurations of urban space and form ...
By adapting Freud's notion of "floating attention" to urban systems, Mario Gandelsonas applies a process of visual drift to the plan of Chicago. He uses mechanical eye of the computer in a "de-layering" process to read the plan of the city and to discover the system of urban notions that are specific to the American grid. Gandelsonas explores the ...
Shanghai-China's largest industrial city and the fifth largest port in the world-is in the midst of a rapid revitalization. Shanghai Reflections examines the transformation of the old city into a modern metropolis from a broad cultural and architectural perspective. Architect Mario Gandelsonas charts the city's physical mutation over time; essays ...
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