Inside architecture /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gregotti, Vittorio
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Italiano
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1996.
Series:Graham Foundation/MIT Press series in contemporary architectural discourse.
Subjects:
Architecture > Philosophy.
Architecture > Philosophie.
architectural theory.
ARCHITECTURE > Urban & Land Use Planning.
Bouwkunst.
Filosofie.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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