Aldo Rossi The Urban Fact A Reference Book On Aldo Rossi

Author : Aldo Rossi,Kersten Geers,Jelena Pancevac
Publisher : Walther Konig Verlag
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3960989768

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Aldo Rossi. The Urban Fact A Reference Book on Aldo Rossi by Aldo Rossi,Kersten Geers,Jelena Pancevac Pdf

Rossi's urban theory of "collective memory" interpreted through 23 architectural projects The great Italian architect, designer, theorist and printmaker Aldo Rossi (1931-97) galvanized the postmodernist architectural movement in the middle of the 20th century with his unique synthesis of influences such as Adolf Loos, Giorgio de Chirico and Soviet architecture. From his publication Architecture of the City(1966) to his 1976 exhibition Analogous City, Rossi spent a decade developing a theory of urban design that focused on the "collective memory" of a city as an essential element of its urban planning and gave consideration to how buildings and urban areas age over time. Here, Rossi's theory is applied to his own works from that period, both built and unbuilt, in a careful selection of 23 projects that express this memory-based paradigm of civic existence and construction. Aldo Rossi: The Urban Factthus unifies Rossi's theory and practice, demonstrating the visionary dimension driving his singular brand of postmodernism.

Author : Aldo Rossi
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1984-09-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262680432

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The Architecture of the City by Aldo Rossi Pdf

Aldo Rossi was a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza and one of the most influential theorists of the twentieth century. The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a protest against functionalism and the Modern Movement, in part an attempt to restore the craft of architecture to its position as the only valid object of architectural study, and in part an analysis of the rules and forms of the city's construction, the book has become immensely popular among architects and design students.

Author : Diane Ghirardo
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300234930

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Aldo Rossi and the Spirit of Architecture by Diane Ghirardo Pdf

This beautifully illustrated book provides a crucial new look at Aldo Rossi's built work in relationship to his writings, drawings, and product design, and explores his contributions to the architecture in postwar Italy.

Author : Shohei Shigematsu,Jason Long
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780847869206

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OMA NY by Shohei Shigematsu,Jason Long Pdf

The long-anticipated monograph on OMA New York by Shohei Shigematsu and Jason Long is sure to be the design and architecture book of the season. Presenting more than 20 radical architectural projects from a new generation of the firm, this mammoth volume is the first compendium by OMA, since Content and Rem Koolhaas’s S, M, L, XL. Well into its fourth decade, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), founded by Rem Koolhaas in 1975, remains one of the most influential and successful practices of its kind. OMA describes itself as “a firm operating within the traditional boundaries of architecture and urbanism that applies architectural thinking to domains beyond.” OMA New York, has grown from an American outpost to a full-fledged operation with its own attitudes, contributing to the evolution of the globally acclaimed office. Through a diversity of projects, the firm has transformed our understanding of the city and our evolving relationship with art, fashion, food, sustainability, and other quintessentially twenty-first-century preoccupations. The works presented here elaborate on OMA’s philosophy even as they expand its portfolio geographically. Featured projects (led by partners Shohei Shigematsu and Jason Long) include residential skyscrapers in New York, Miami, and San Francisco, mixed-use developments in cities from Tokyo to Houston, and projects like 11th Street Bridge Park in the public realm, alongside more intimate spaces such as the studio for renowned Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang. Permanent structures, such as Milstein Hall at Cornell University, the new galleries of Quebec’s Musée National des Beaux-Arts, a cultural forum and neighborhood for Faena in Miami, and the expansion of museums such as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo and the New Museum in Manhattan, contrast vividly with temporary interventions such as the Manus x Machina exhibition at the Met Costume Institute and the sculptural installation of soaring concrete columns for An Occupation of Loss. In between projects are dialogues with leading policy makers, museum directors, artists, fashion designers, musicians, chefs, and curators—Christopher Hawthorne, Lisa Phillips and Massimiliano Gioni, Taryn Simon, Iris van Herpen, Virgil Abloh, David Byrne, Alice Waters, and Cecilia Alemani—who provide insight onto areas of the firm’s interests and preoccupations beyond the realm of architecture.

Author : Aldo Rossi
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Architects
ISBN : UCAL:B2506568

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A Scientific Autobiography by Aldo Rossi Pdf

Postscript by Vincent Scully Based on notebooks composed since 1971, Aldo Rossi's memoir intermingles his architectural projects, including discussion of the major literary and artistic influences on his work, with his personal history. His ruminations range from his obsession with theater to his concept of architecture as ritual. The illustrations-photographs, evocative images, as well as a set of drawings of Rossi's major architectural projects prepared particularly for this publicationwere personally selected by the author to augment the text.

Author : Marco Bovati,Michele Caja,Martina Landsberger,Angelo Lorenzi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8893870975

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Aldo Rossi, Perspectives from the World. Theory, Teaching, Design & Legacy. Ediz. Illustrata by Marco Bovati,Michele Caja,Martina Landsberger,Angelo Lorenzi Pdf

Author : Kersten Geers,Jelena Pančevac,Andrea Zanderigo
Publisher : Park Publishing (WI)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3906027848

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The Difficult Whole by Kersten Geers,Jelena Pančevac,Andrea Zanderigo Pdf

In the 1960s, American architect Robert Venturi made a case for the difficult whole, opposing mainstream modern architecture that ignores all the intricacies of life and produces pure space, or "easy unity". The architecture Venturi was aiming for embraces diversities, inevitable in any project. This new book, edited by Architecture Without Content, a research group at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne's School of Architecture, offers a fresh analysis and a thorough re-evaluation of Venturi s idea of "the difficult whole" as both a looking glass and a possible tool for architecture today. Through a radical re-reading of found material from the Venturi Scott Brown archives, the editors seek to propose a credible alternative to contemporary architectural discourse. Its format combines the ambiguity of interpretation with the factual material, keeping the precision of the argument. This elusive position is elaborated in essays, complemented by interviews with Kazunari Sakamoto and Alvaro Siza.Around 35 projects by Venturi Scott Brown, and also by Alvaro Siza and James Stirling, form a visual narrative with original plans and sections and other archive material as well as new perspective images and photographs especially produced for this book.

Author : Aldo Rossi,Karen Stein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015033349153

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Aldo Rossi by Aldo Rossi,Karen Stein Pdf

A vivid and timely survey.... Rossi's work is distinguished by depth of feeling and stark simplicity, neither disallowing gaiety. -- Adele Freedman, Toronto Globe and Mail

Author : Pierre Nora,Lawrence D. Kritzman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0231106343

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Realms of Memory: Traditions by Pierre Nora,Lawrence D. Kritzman Pdf

Offers the best essays from the acclaimed collection originally published in French. This monumental work examines how and why events and figures become a part of a people's collective memory, how rewriting history can forge new paradigms of cultural identity, and how the meaning attached to an event can become as significant as the event itself.

Author : Kate Nesbitt
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 156898054X

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Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: by Kate Nesbitt Pdf

Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology of ArchitecturalTheory collects in a single volume the most significant essays on architectural theory of the last thirty years. A dynamic period of reexamination of the discipline, the postmodern eraproduced widely divergent and radical viewpoints on issues of making, meaning, history, and the city. Among the paradigms presented arearchitectural postmodernism, phenomenology, semiotics, poststructuralism, deconstruction, and feminism. By gathering these influential articles from a vast array of books and journals into a comprehensive anthology, Kate Nesbitt has created a resource of great value. Indispensable to professors and students of architecture and architectural theory, Theorizing a New Agenda also serves practitioners and the general public, as Nesbitt provides an overview, a thematic structure, and a critical introduction to each essay. The list of authors in Theorizing a New Agenda reads like a "Who's Who" of contemporary architectural thought: Tadao Ando, Giulio Carlo Argan, Alan Colquhoun, Jacques Derrida, Peter Eisenman, Marco Frascari, Kenneth Frampton, Diane Ghirardo, Vittorio Gregotti, Karsten Harries, Rem Koolhaas, Christian Norberg-Schulz, Aldo Rossi, Colin Rowe, Thomas Schumacher, Ignasi de Sol-Morales Rubi, Bernard Tschumi, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, and Anthony Vidler. A bibliography and notes on all the contributors are also included.

Author : Manfredo Tafuri
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262700395

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Sfera E Il Labirinto by Manfredo Tafuri Pdf

"Tafuri's work is probably the most innovative and exciting new form of European theory since French poststructuralism and this book is probably the best introduction to it for the newcomer. ..."

Author : M. Christine Boyer
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 026252211X

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The City of Collective Memory by M. Christine Boyer Pdf

Describes the visual and mental models by which urban environment has been recognized, depicted and planned. This analysis draws from geography, critical theory, architecture, literature and painting to identify these maps of the city - as a work of art, as panorama and as spectacle.

Author : Charles Jencks
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781119960096

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The Story of Post-Modernism by Charles Jencks Pdf

In The Story of Post-Modernism, Charles Jencks, the authority on Post-Modern architecture and culture, provides the defining account of Post-Modern architecture from its earliest roots in the early 60s to the present day. By breaking the narrative into seven distinct chapters, which are both chronological and overlapping, Jencks charts the ebb and flow of the movement, the peaks and troughs of different ideas and themes. The book is highly visual. As well as providing a chronological account of the movement, each chapter also has a special feature on the major works of a given period. The first up-to-date narrative of Post-Modern Architecture - other major books on the subject were written 20 years ago. An accessible narrative that will appeal to students who are new to the subject, as well as those who can remember its heyday in the 70s and 80s.

Author : Colin Rowe,Fred Koetter
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1984-03-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262680424

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Collage City by Colin Rowe,Fred Koetter Pdf

This book is a critical reappraisal of contemporary theories of urban planning and design and of the role of the architect-planner in an urban context. The authors, rejecting the grand utopian visions of "total planning" and "total design," propose instead a "collage city" which can accommodate a whole range of utopias in miniature.

Author : Diogo Seixas Lopes
Publisher : Park Publishing (WI)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3906027473

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Melancholy and Architecture by Diogo Seixas Lopes Pdf

Aldo Rossi (1931 97) is a key figure in 20th-century architecture. Often described as melancholic, his work was and still is influential both in architectural theory and practice. This new book discusses this notion of melancholy and its role on the example of Rossi. Drawing on rich archival sources, the author investigates several aspects of the Italian architect s figure and analyzes one of his landmark works, the Cemetery of San Cataldo in Modena, Italy. He also looks at the current issues of stardom, overexposure, and commercialization which Rossi anticipated, debating them in relation to melancholy. The history of melancholy as a companion to culture tells equally of affliction and an inspiration. Its meaning has always oscillated between medical statement and a mark of dignity. Subject and object, the individual and the collective have surrendered to the condition s allurement. While the influence of melancholy on visual arts and literature has been extensively debated, its presence in architecture has been overlooked so far. Yet artist and poets, such as Albrecht Durer (1471 1528) or Charles Baudelaire (1821 67), have related melancholy to questions of space, city, and modernity. Also, architects like Etienne-Louis Boullee (1728 99) or Adolf Loos (1870 1933) noted sentiments of gloom or crisis in their writings. Likewise, Aldo Rossi can be discussed from a similar standpoint. Amidst great social changes after WW II, he disputed the modernists credos and questioned the status of his profession. Discarding utopian pretences, his work claimed the autonomy of architecture with formal restraint. These positions and his understanding of terms like fragment and memory imply melancholy. His buildings, drawings, and writings oscillate between enthusiasm and disenchantment. The Cemetery of San Cataldo (1971 84) is an example of the latter. Closely intertwined with Rossi s biography, its stark and monumental buildings reinterpret a typology from the past to come to terms with the representations of death and its inevitable melancholy. "