“Inexistent” architecture, cultural “stagings” and the interconnectedness of the nightclub interior
Rossi, Cat (2025) “Inexistent” architecture, cultural “stagings” and the interconnectedness of the nightclub interior. In: A nocturnal history of architecture. Spector Books, Leipzig. ISBN 9783959056748
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Book abstract: For centuries, architectural theory has been dominated by solar and diurnal paradigms. References to night in Vitruvius' De Architectura are scarce, as they are in the Renaissance treatises by Alberti or Palladio. However, the night has been, for millennia, a central laboratory in the development of new forms of space. This book offers a first chronological attempt at A Nocturnal History of Architecture, spanning over 2000 years across different geographies and societies. From the elusive darkness of Greek temples to the overlit American suburbia, and from moon-inspired Japanese aesthetics to Italian nightclubs, it reveals how the evolution of human beings and their material environment is inseparable from the night. Editors: Javier F. Contreras, Vera Sacchetti, Roberto Zancan Contributions by: Sébastien Grosset, Efrosyni Boutsikas, Maria Shevelkina, Murielle Hladik, Maarten Delbeke, Amy Chazkel, Lucía Jalón, Carlotta Darò, Yan Rocher, Alexandra Sumorok, Chase Galis, Cat Rossi, Léa-Catherine Szacka, Hilary Orange, Nick Dunn, Youri Kravtchenko.
This publication is the result of the international conference A Nocturnal History of Architecture, which was held at HEAD – Genève in December 2021.
It was complemented at the 76th Annual International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, which was held in Montreal in April 2023. It is part of the research project Scènes de Nuit, a project funded by the strategic fund of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland (Fond Stratégique de
la HES-SO) and by HEAD – Genève (Geneva University of Art & Design, HES-SO).
www.scenesdenuit.ch
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