Giuseppe Terragni

Author : Peter Eisenman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0847815374

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Giuseppe Terragni by Peter Eisenman Pdf

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.

Author : Thomas L. Schumacher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015048328523

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Surface & Symbol by Thomas L. Schumacher Pdf

Author : Mirko Galli,Claudia Mühlhoff
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3764361743

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Virtual Terragni by Mirko Galli,Claudia Mühlhoff Pdf

Traditionally architectural models were static creations but now through CAAD, models can be created which are dynamic and easily manipulated. This book shows how the electronic medium can be used to critically reconstruct unbuilt projects, looking in particular at projects by the famous Italian rationalist, Giuseppe Terragni. Four villas and several monument buildings are visually represented, their structures and functions examined and assessed using CAAD.

Author : Daniel Mancini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015022282894

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Giuseppe Terragni by Daniel Mancini Pdf

Author : Valerio Paolo Mosco
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8855210521

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Giuseppe Terragni by Valerio Paolo Mosco Pdf

- Monograph dedicated to one of Italy's most talented proponents of Rationalist architecture, Giuseppe Terragni (1904-1943), with a focus on his experience during WWII - Edited by Giuseppe Terragni's great-grandson, president of the Archivio Terragni Giuseppe Terragni, an influential proponent of modernism in Italian architecture and design in the 1920s and 1930s, translated the visual vocabulary of Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe into what became known as the Rationalist School of Architecture. This monograph covers his later years (he died in 1943), with a focus on the war and his devastating experience as a soldier. It includes some notable projects from the 1930s like the Casa del Fascio in Como, and the designs for an unrealised final project for a cathedral that he did in the days before his death. The book is illustrated with historical photographs and includes letters Terragni wrote from the front.

Author : Roger Sherwood
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0674579429

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Modern Housing Prototypes by Roger Sherwood Pdf

Here are 32 notable examples of multi-family housing from many countries, selected for their importance as prototypes. Designed by such masters as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Alvar Aalto, the buildings are illustrated with photographs, site plans, floor plans, elevations, and striking axonometric drawings.

Author : Alexander J. De Grand
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0803266227

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Italian Fascism by Alexander J. De Grand Pdf

"For the third edition, De Grand has substantially revised the discussion of culture and ideology, the conclusion, and the bibliography."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Allen Cunningham
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135809294

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Modern Movement Heritage by Allen Cunningham Pdf

This collection of essays serves as an introduction to modern architectural heritage and the specific problems related to the conservation of modern structures. It covers policy, planning and construction. A selection of case studies elaborates on these issues and illustrates how problems have been addressed. This volume celebrates the first 5 years of DoCoMoMo's role and influence in this important area of building conservation.

Author : Alessandra Coppa,Archivio Giuseppe Terragni
Publisher : Ore Cultura Srl
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8866481491

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Giuseppe Terragni by Alessandra Coppa,Archivio Giuseppe Terragni Pdf

Giuseppe Terragni's training as an architect can be placed in the complex starting point of Italian Rationalism, wavering between the Futurist legacy, the metaphysical language of Valori Plastici, and the Classicism of the Novecento - the complex and entirely Italian pathway to modernity, where the form and the aesthetic of the building are subordinated to its technical and practical features. Terragni loved to spend his nights working on a large table "filled with drawings helter-skelter", a cigarette dangling from his mouth in the company of his cat Demiurgo. His fellow workers described him as being big and tall, carelessly dressed, with "heavy and awkward" hands that, however, were skilled at drawing "a slender sign, a very subtle, vibrant and neat line". Thus was born the Casa del Fascio, the architect's most representative work, a true and proper manifesto of Italian Rationalism - but also the building destined to interpret the spirit of the Fascist regime and to cause a stir. This was followed by his great apartment buildings (the Case Rustici, Giringhelli, Lavezzari, Toninello, Rustici-Comolli): it was the complex theme of the "modern house" that the 5th Triennial held in 1933 had put forward as the subject of architectural discussion. And then there was the great State architecture on the occasion of the major Roman competitions: for the Palazzo del Littorio, the Palazzo dei Ricevimenti e dei Congressi for the E42 (EUR), and for the Danteum, none of which were ever realised.

Author : Francesca Billiani
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788317580

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Fascist Modernism in Italy by Francesca Billiani Pdf

Between 1917 to 1975 Germany, Italy, Portugal, the Soviet Union, and Spain shifted from liberal parliamentary democracies to authoritarian and totalitarian dictatorships, seeking total control, mass consensus, and the constitution of a 'new man/woman' as the foundation of a modern collective social identity. As they did so these regimes uniformly adopted what we would call a modernist aesthetic – huge-scale experiments in modernism were funded and supported by fascist and totalitarian dictators. Famous examples include Mussolini's New Rome at EUR, or the Stalinist apartment blocks built in urban Russia. Focusing largely on Mussolini's Italy, Francesca Billiani argues that modernity was intertwined irrecoverably with fascism – that too often modernist buildings, art and writings are seen as a purely cultural output, when in fact the principles of modernist aesthetics constitute and are constituted by the principles of fascism. The obsession with the creation of the 'new man' in art and in reality shows this synergy at work. This book is a key contribution to the field of twentieth century history – particularly in the study of fascism, while also appealing to students of art history and philosophy.

Author : Kenneth Frampton
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 1161 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780500775929

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Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Fifth) (World of Art) by Kenneth Frampton Pdf

An extensively revised and updated edition of a bestselling classic on modern architecture and its origins by Kenneth Frampton. Kenneth Frampton’s highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has been a classic since it first appeared in 1980. Starting with the cultural developments since 1750 that drove the modern movement, moving through the creation of modern architecture, and exploring the effects of globalization and the phenomenon of international celebrity architects, this book is the definitive history of modern architecture. For this extensively revised and updated fifth edition of Modern Architecture, Frampton added new chapters exploring the ongoing modernist tradition in architecture while also examining the varied responses to the urgent need to build more sustainably and create structures that will withstand changing climates. This new edition features completely redesigned interiors and an updated and expanded bibliography, making this volume more indispensable than ever.

Author : João Mascarenhas-Mateus,Ana Paula Pires
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000468762

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History of Construction Cultures Volume 2 by João Mascarenhas-Mateus,Ana Paula Pires Pdf

Volume 2 of History of Construction Cultures contains papers presented at the 7ICCH – Seventh International Congress on Construction History, held at the Lisbon School of Architecture, Portugal, from 12 to 16 July, 2021. The conference has been organized by the Lisbon School of Architecture (FAUL), NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, the Portuguese Society for Construction History Studies and the University of the Azores. The contributions cover the wide interdisciplinary spectrum of Construction History and consist on the most recent advances in theory and practical case studies analysis, following themes such as: - epistemological issues; - building actors; - building materials; - building machines, tools and equipment; - construction processes; - building services and techniques ; -structural theory and analysis ; - political, social and economic aspects; - knowledge transfer and cultural translation of construction cultures. Furthermore, papers presented at thematic sessions aim at covering important problematics, historical periods and different regions of the globe, opening new directions for Construction History research. We are what we build and how we build; thus, the study of Construction History is now more than ever at the centre of current debates as to the shape of a sustainable future for humankind. Therefore, History of Construction Cultures is a critical and indispensable work to expand our understanding of the ways in which everyday building activities have been perceived and experienced in different cultures, from ancient times to our century and all over the world.

Author : Hans Rudolf Morgenthaler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317024316

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The Meaning of Modern Architecture by Hans Rudolf Morgenthaler Pdf

Using empathy, as established by the Vienna School of Art History, complemented by insights on how the mind processes visual stimuli, as demonstrated by late 19th-century psychologists and art theorists, this book puts forward an innovative interpretative method of decoding the forms and spaces of Modern buildings. This method was first developed as scholars realized that the new abstract art appearing needed to be analysed differently than the previous figurative works. Since architecture experienced a similar development in the 1920s and 30s, this book argues that the empathetic method can also be used in architectural interpretation. While most existing scholarship tends to focus on formal and functional analysis, this book proposes that Modern architecture is too diverse to be reduced to a few common formal or ornamental features. Instead, by relying on the viewer’s innate psycho-physiological perceptive abilities, sensual and intuitive understandings of composition, form, and space are emphasized. These aspects are especially significant because Modern Architecture lacks the traditional stylistic signs. Including building analyses, it shows how, by visually reducing cubical forms and spaces to linear configurations, the exteriors and interiors of Modern buildings can be interpreted via human perceptive abilities as dynamic movement systems commensurate with the new industrial transportation age. This reveals an inner necessity these buildings express about themselves and their culture, rather than just an explanation of how they are assembled and how they should be used. The case studies highlight the contrasts between buildings designed by different architects, rather than concentrating on the few features that relate them to the zeitgeist. It analyses the buildings directly as the objects of study, not indirectly, as designs filtered through a philosophical or theoretical discourse. The book demonstrates that, with technology and science affecting culture

Author : Simon Unwin
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0415228743

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An Architecture Notebook by Simon Unwin Pdf

A companion volume to the author's successful text, Analysing Architecture , this book follows the same approach and format to explore conceptual themes in architecture further.

Author : Enzo Pifferi
Publisher : Enzo Pifferi editore
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015061100304

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Giuseppe Terragni by Enzo Pifferi Pdf