Inside architecture / Vittorio Gregotti ; translated by Peter Wong and Francesca Zaccheo.
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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| Other title: | Dentro l'architettura. English |
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| Language: | English Italian |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©1996.
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| Series: | Graham Foundation/MIT Press series in contemporary architectural discourse.
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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.