
Two Essays on Architecture
baukuh(Editor)
Kommode (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published in April 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
120 pages
978-3-9524114-4-5 (ISBN)
Description
The first essay is a critique of Giorgio Grassi's theoretical work, focusing on his texts of the late 1960s and early 1970s and primarily on Grassi's masterpiece "The Logical Construction of Architecture" (1967). A confrontation with Grassi's arguments is necessary to imagine architecture as public knowledge, as something explicitely based on and explicitely geared towards the construction of a shared intelligence. Grassi's work provides the most radical and most refined theoretical framework in order to define a positive relationship with the resources accumulated in the architecture of the past and thus to imagine a rational architecture for the future.
The second essay is a detailed analysis of Aldo Rossi's 1966 masterpiece "The Architecture of the City". At first sight, the book looks terrible: messy, repetitive and inconclusive. However, over time, Rossi's text has become a classic. The book contains neither clear theory nor precise method, yet Rossi seems to descover something. Here and there a constellation of fragments emerges that seems to herald a new sense for contemüporary architecture. In his later career, Rossi did not develop this approach any further; nevertheless this fragile theoretical construction remains extremely valuable for contemporary architecture. It should not be wasted.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Zürich
Switzerland
Target group
ArchitektInnen
Edition type
Adapted edition
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Illustrations
2
Dimensions
Height: 19 cm
Width: 12 cm
Weight
179 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-9524114-4-5 (9783952411445)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
baukuh is a firm of architects composed by Paolo Carpi, Silvia Lupi, Vittorio Pizzigoni, Giacomo Summa, Pier Paolo Tamburelli, and Andrea Zanderigo. baukuh won international competitions in Amsterdam (2003), Budapest (2003), Genoa (2009), Turin (2010) and Milan (2011). baukuh took part in the 3rd and 5th Rotterdam Biennale (2007, 2012) and in the 11th and 13th Venice Biennale (2009, 2012), and was part of the research group for the Dutch National History Museum (2011). baukuh recently completed two residential buildings in Tirana (Albania) and a pavilion in Vezzano (Italy) and is currently building the House of Memory in Milan.