L10 – La ragione degli edificiLa scuola di Milano e oltre

LA RAGIONE DEGLI EDIFICI. LA SCUOLA DI MILANO E OLTRE


AUTHOR Antonio Monestiroli
YEAR 2010
PUBLISHER Marinotti
LANGUAGE Italian
ISBN 9788882731144


This book consists of three parts. A first in which it aims to highlight the contradiction, which has been at the bottom of theoretical debate in the twentieth century, between complexity and simplification as matrices of thinking about architecture. This contradiction can only be resolved by adopting one principle: that of the search for the reason of all things, in architecture for the reason of buildings. A second part dealing with the work of some protagonists of twentieth-century Italian architecture who placed such a search at the basis of their project. These are a number of architects, Albini, Gardella, Rogers, Asnago and Vender, Rossi, Grassi, and, together with them, Libera, the Roman architect closest to the Milanese, who together with others constitute a clearly recognizable school of thought: the School of Milan. A school that founds its principles in the Enlightenment, a school that draws nourishment from philosophers close to Antonio Banfi and that has its own continuity over time. A school contested by Milan and Venice, cities where these architects taught. Finally, a third part that introduces the notion of reality as a spectacle not only to be known, as conventional rationalism would have it, but to be staged with the forms of architecture. It was Aldo Rossi who showed us this way, along with all the artists he brought back among us, for his and our consolation.