The Architecture of the CityAldo Rossi was a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza and one of the most influential theorists of the twentieth century. The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a protest against functionalism and the Modern Movement, in part an attempt to restore the craft of architecture to its position as the only valid object of architectural study, and in part an analysis of the rules and forms of the city's construction, the book has become immensely popular among architects and design students. |
Contents
Urban Artifacts and a Theory of the City | 21 |
The Structure of Urban Artifacts | 29 |
Typological Questions | 35 |
Critique of Naive Functionalism | 46 |
The Complexity of Urban Artifacts | 55 |
Primary Elements and the Concept of Area | 63 |
The Individual Dwelling | 70 |
Garden City and Ville Radieuse | 82 |
Urban Ecology and Psychology | 112 |
The Roman Forum | 119 |
Monuments Summary of the Critique of the Concept of Context | 126 |
The Evolution of Urban Artifacts | 139 |
Land Ownership | 152 |
The Urban Scale | 158 |
Preface to the Second Italian Edition | 165 |
Comment on the German Edition | 179 |
The Ancient City | 92 |
The Individuality of Urban Artifacts Architecture | 103 |
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