By Means of Rome. Robert Venturi: prima del Post-Modern (1944-1966).

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Italian

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Tesi di dottorato.

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[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2017.

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Italian

Summary:

Post-Modern architecture is “populist”, a “scenographically simulating” “eclectic parody”. It is difficult to overcome these kinds of comments, especially when they are written by Kenneth Frampton. This harsh critique has biased our view of the work of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, considered as precursors and protagonists of Post-Modernism. Even today Venturi's architecture suffers from the negative impact of that disapproval. Surprisingly enough, during his career Venturi tried his best to dissociate his architecture from the work of most of his self-proclaimed followers. He declared on many occasions: “I am not a Post-Modernist”, blaming a misconception about his work, often simplistically dismissed as a historic revival. Official historiography about Venturi begins with his Mother's House, completed in 1964, and Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, published in 1966. My PhD thesis argues that in order to gain a wider perspective on Venturi s work, we should shift our focus from the 1960s to the mid-40s. Therefore, my work investigates his research and projects from his early years, beginning in 1944, the date when Venturi enrolls at the Princeton University. From this specific viewpoint, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture turns into the final outcome of his first 20 years of research on historic architecture and urban context. His particular awareness of history was defined during his two-year stay at the American Academy in Rome between 1954 and 1956. That would have been an interesting moment to be in Italy: from the Gianicolo Hill, Venturi could not only carry on his research on the architectural principles of the Baroque and Mannerism, but he would have also had the chance to absorb the lively Italian cultural debate of the postwar period, animated by the ideas about historicism, neorealism and museography. Thanks to his friendship with Ernesto Nathan Rogers, Venturi is exposed to history of architecture n ot only through the physi

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1030846210

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Sessa, Rosa (2017) By Means of Rome. Robert Venturi: prima del Post-Modern (1944-1966). [Tesi di dottorato]

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