TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gregotti,Vittorio
TI  - Inside architecture
T2  - Graham Foundation/MIT Press series in contemporary architectural discourse
SN  - 0585002886
AV  - NA2500 .G67913 1996eb
U1  - 720/.1 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - ARCHITECTURE
KW  - Urban & Land Use Planning
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Bouwkunst
KW  - gtt
KW  - Filosofie
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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