Entrée principale:

Gregotti, Vittorio.

Titre et auteur:

Inside architecture / Vittorio Gregotti ; translated by Peter Wong and Francesca Zaccheo.

Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1996.

Description:

xxiii, 103 pages ; 20 cm.

Série(s):

Graham Foundation/MIT Press series in contemporary architectural discourse

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-103).
Part One: Conservation and Modernity -- Mass homogeneity -- In defense -- Critical reasons for the projects -- Prevision, prediction --- The necessary limit -- Advanced mediocrity -- Against vulgar pluralism -- Part Two: Ways and Instruments -- On precision -- On technique -- On monumentality -- On modification -- On atopia -- On simplicity -- on procedure -- On image -- Notes.
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Résumé:

Inside Architecture is a concise, insightful examination of the role the modernist project has played in late twentieth-century building, as well as an attempt to reconcile the dilemmas and shortcomings of modern orthodoxy with a renewed vision of modernism. Gregotti first identifies the elements of mass culture and public institutions that have led to the deterioration of natural and man-made environments. He then investigates eight issues - precision, technique, monumentality, modification, atopia, simplicity, procedure, and image - that influence the activities of contemporary architects. Gregotti is particularly suspicious of the deconstructivist argument and its heavy reliance on literary models. And he provides an incisive critique of the recent interest in modernist aesthetics, warning against reviving the forms of an old movement without considering the cultural and social criteria that once gave it purpose and meaning.

ISBN:

0262571153 (PB ; alk. paper)
9780262571159 (PB ; alk. paper)

Sujet:

Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture Philosophie.
architectural theory.
Architecture

Vedettes secondaires:

Graham Foundation/MIT Press series in contemporary architectural discourse.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 114300
Cote: ID NA2500.G67913; ID:96-B2508
Statut: Disponible