theory and practice in contemporary architecture and urbanism

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Theory and Practice in Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism

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Theory and Practice in Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism

Politecnico di Milano, Facoltà di Architettura e SocietàProf. Richard Ingersoll, rjingers@syr.edu

Elisa Cattaneo elisa.c.cattaneo@gmail.com

Filippo Cattapan filippocattapan@gmail.com

2) 18.X. The Uses and Misuses of History.

The struggle between theory and practice during the late 20th century. From Utopianism to post-Humanism.

Texts:

-Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction, 1968

-Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour, Learning from Las Vegas, 1972 (excerpts). Part I “A significance for A&P Parking Lots”, pp 3-72; and Part II The Ugly and Ordinary pp 85-103.

-Aldo Rossi, The Architecture of the City, 1968.

-J. Otero-Pailos, “Architectural Phenomenology,” from Sage Handbook of Architectural Theory, 2012

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