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THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE CITY:
The Architecture of the City” First published as L’architettura della citta in 1966 Proposes a return to reason & logic, history & memory, & the city the city must be valued as a construction over time.
2 -Themes Critique of Functionalism and Modernism’s utilitarian basis Autonomous monuments and the permanence of form A city of fragments, a city of monuments The memory structure of the city.
3 - Palazzo della Ragione Padua, Italy A City Hall from the 1200’s, converted into a marketplace Form is permanent and complex Form can be adapted to new uses Not “form follows function”.
4 -Teatro del Mondo Venice Biennale 1979-80 “ Theatre of the World” Simple, unornamented forms Recalls floating theatres characteristic of Venice in the 18th century Based on Rossi’s childhood memory of a puppet theatre
THE NEW YORK FIVE
The New York Five refers to a group of five New York City architects (Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey, John Hejduk and Richard Meier) whose photographed work was the subject of a CASE (Committee of Architects for the Study of the Environment) meeting at the Museum of Modern Art, organized by Arthur Drexler and Colin Rowe in 1969, and featured in the subsequent book Five Architects, published by Wittenborn in 1972.
CROWN HALL CHICAGO
S. R. Crown Hall, designed by the German-born Modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, is the home of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois.
