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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gregotti, Vittorio.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost.

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Series:

Graham Foundation/MIT Press series in contemporary architectural discourse

Standardized Title:

Dentro l'architettura. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Philosophy.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 103 pages.)

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

Translation of Dentro l'architettura.

System Details:

text file

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-103).

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

9780585002880

0585002886

Publisher Number:

99984025104

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.