Theory and Practice in Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism
Politecnico di Milano, Facoltà di Architettura e SocietàProf. Richard Ingersoll, [email protected]
Elisa Cattaneo [email protected]
Filippo Cattapan [email protected]
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
