Main entry:

Eisenman, Peter, 1932-

Title & Author:

Giuseppe Terragni : transformations, decompositions, critiques / Peter Eisenman ; with texts by Giuseppe Terragni and Manfredo Tafuri.

Publication:

New York : Monacelli Press, 2003.
©2003

Description:

301 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm

Notes:
[Pt.1] Introduction -- [Pt.2] Analytic typologies -- [Pt.3] The Casa del Fascio and the processes of transformation -- Transformations: The processes of volumetric addition and subtraction -- Transformations: The facades -- The early studies -- Southwest facade: The entry facade -- Northwest facade -- Northeast facade -- Southeast facade -- The vertical datum -- The entry -- The plan -- Interior volume -- Interior facades -- [Pt.4] The Casa Giuliani-Frigerio and the processes of decomposition -- Decompositions -- Internal volume to external facade -- The non-narrative corner -- North facade -- South facade -- East facade -- West facade -- [Pt.5] Critiques -- Building the Casa del Fascio in Como / Giuseppe Terragni -- Giuseppe Terragni: Subject and "mask" / Manfredo Tafuri -- Terragni and the idea of a critical text / Peter Eisenman -- [Pt.6] Site plan.

Summary:

"Forty years in the making, Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques documents and investigates two of Italian rationalist architect Giuseppe Terragni's masterworks: the Casa del Fascio (1933-36) and the Casa Giuliani-Frigerio (1939-40), both in Como. This far-reaching study -- illustrated with more than five hundred original architectural diagrams and archival photographs -- employs what Eisenman calls critical and textual reading of both buildings. He attempts to broaden the definition of the formal from a narrow aesthetic and compositional view to include first the conceptual and then the textual. It is through this idea of the textual that Eisenman begins to define an idea of the critical in architecture. Eisenman's methodology is wholly removed from traditional approaches -- social, historical, aesthetic, functional. Instead, the various articulations and openings on the facades constitute a set of marks, notations that provide the basis for his analysis. In the Casa del Fascio, for example, each of the four sequential design schemes records the previous state, encoding the process of transformation in the final building. In the Casa Giuliani-Frigerio it is instead the process of decomposition that generates the facades. Also included in the book are an essay by Terragni and a critique by Manfredo Tafuri. In the end, it is the dual protagonists -- the architect and the author -- who together establish a new theoretical and analytical framework."--Publisher description

ISBN:

1885254962
9781885254962

Subject:

Terragni, Giuseppe, 1904-1943 Criticism and interpretation.
Terragni, Giuseppe, 1904-1943
Architecture Italy History 20th century.
Architecture Italie Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture
Italy

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Added entries:

Terragni, Giuseppe, 1904-1943.
Tafuri, Manfredo.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 228810
Call No.: NA44.T323.25 C3 2003
Status: Available