contents
introductory note: upside-down and inside-out by steven holl
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foreword
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acknowledgments
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a note to the reader
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I
Pozzo di San Patrizio orvi eto
Well of St. Patrick
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orvieto
A Pair of City Architectures, Hovering Thresholds, Duomo and Its Obverse, and Occupied Edges Half Monolith/Half ‘Manylith,’ Up and Down Excavation Looped Space, and Two Travelers in the Well
II
Tumulo della Cornice ce rvete r i
Tom b of the Corn ice
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cerveteri
Alter-City, City Found by Subtraction (‘Built’ in Reverse) Space Machined from Geology, Seamless Surface, Stretched Membrane Furrowed Threshold, Unenforced Perspective, Bellows of Stone, and Primal Cinema III
Sette Sale roma
Seven Halls
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rome
Civic Surfaces/Working Volumes, and Gravity Underpinning, An Arch Turned Down, Corrugation, and Building as Gargantuan Fired Vessel Parallel and Perpendicular to Parallel Walls, Field of Space with Everywhere Place, Network of Paths (The Rhizomatic Labyrinth), Inverted Underground Grove