X-Urbanism: Architecture and the American City

by Mario Gandelsonas

For most of his career, architect Mario Gandelsonas has been exploring the American city through his writings, designs, lectures, and, above all, through a series of remarkable analytical drawings. X-Urbanism raises questions about the form of the city by examining various configurations of urban space, analyzing them in ways that blur the traditional opposition between figure and ground. This title serves as a visual lexicon of the formal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568981511
• ISBN13: 9781568981512
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.7" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary