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

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: Graham Foundation/MIT Press series in contemporary architectural discoursePublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, �1996.Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 103 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585002886
  • 9780585002880
Uniform titles:
  • Dentro l'architettura. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Inside architecture.DDC classification:
  • 720/.1 20
LOC classification:
  • NA2500 .G67913 1996eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-103).

Print version record.

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.

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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