The Architecture of Transit, Sue Barr

Download or read book The Architecture of Transit, Sue Barr written by David Heathcote and published by . This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searching for the sublime in motorway architecture between the Alps and Naples0Motorways are architectural megastructures in the landscape, crossing nations, natural or political borders making previously remote places accessible to development, tourism and trade. Between the Alps and Naples motorways connect highly complex topographies and urban conditions, often retracing antique trade paths and routes taken by northern Romantics on the Grand Tour, searching for arcadian and sublime landscapes as painted by de Loutherbourg, Claude and Turner. 0The experience of the sublime in untamed nature became a highlight on the Grand Tour. Landscapes that once took days to cross, today we speed through via motorways over concrete bridges, ramps, through galleries and tunnels. But with this speed comes a new accelerated and simultaneously calm sublime of concrete motorway megastructures.