Hospitable and dangerous, noble and proletary, grand and working-class, Istanbul is the city of opposites which tell us about antique tensions bearing fresh energies. Thick clusters of buildings made of different materials: the stone of the caravanserais, the wood of the Mashrabiyas set to protect the loggias and passages of its palaces, the iron of the Art Nouveau villas as well as the steel and glass of the curtain walls of its new skyscrapers, it lusts after density as an antidote to the individual’s solitude...
De Capua, A., Russo, A. (2025). Galata’s Measure. In A. Camiz, Ö. Özkuvancı Şimşir (a cura di), URBAN FAÇADE DESIGNING ISTANBUL WATERFRONT (pp. 192-195). Istanbul : DRUM Press.
Galata’s Measure
Russo, Antonello
2025-01-01
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Hospitable and dangerous, noble and proletary, grand and working-class, Istanbul is the city of opposites which tell us about antique tensions bearing fresh energies. Thick clusters of buildings made of different materials: the stone of the caravanserais, the wood of the Mashrabiyas set to protect the loggias and passages of its palaces, the iron of the Art Nouveau villas as well as the steel and glass of the curtain walls of its new skyscrapers, it lusts after density as an antidote to the individual’s solitude...
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