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Title: Notes from the Underworld
Condition: New
Subtitle: An Architectural Exploration
Author: Stefano Corbo
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 0764358405
EAN: 9780764358401
ISBN: 9780764358401
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Genre: Architecture & Antiques
Release Date: 28/11/2019
Description: Since early times, humans have explored the space below their feet for different purposes: to flee persecution and war, to find protection from severe climates, to improve urban life—and more recently, to solve environmental problems. A rare look at old and new subterranean structures from an architect's perspective, this seminal book examines the underworld through the lenses of wartime, life and death, religious and secular rituals, and adaptive reuse. The atlas of 80+ international projects ranges widely in time period and type, from a house in a defunct nuclear silo to an Arctic seed bank, a Beirut nightclub, art venues, an Italian winery, and a monastery carved into a mountain. All are surprising examples of how invisible man-made spaces follow the same cultural and economic cues as their visible counterparts and are places where we store, hide, repress, and live.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 215mm
Item Length: 165mm
Item Width: 19mm
Item Weight: 726g
Release Year: 2019

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