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Lopes, Diogo Seixas

Melanchloly and architecture ; on Aldo Rossi : txt - 231 p. ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. book

Contents:
11 Introduction --
12 Now this is lost --
22 Our usual feeling of imperfection --
Part 1 31 Melancholy and architecture --
32 Modernity, disquiet, and space --
38 Aesthetics of the sublime --
50 Metropolis and spleen --
59 The lost center --
69 Downcast architecture --
Part 2 75 The case of Aldo Rossi --
76 Postwar years --
82 A realist education --
88 Continuity or crisis? --
95 Architecture as choice --
101 Architecture as memory --
114 Architecture as autobiography --
120 Politics and poetics --
Part 3 125 The cemetery of San Cataldo --
126 A sign of culture --
132 First stage of competition --
144 Second stage of competition --
149 Planning and construction --
162 The city of the dead --
170 The abandoned house --
176 The form of the skeleton --
181 The architecture of shadows --
188 Memento mori --
195 Conclusion --
196 An architecture of optimism? --
206 Culture and crisis --
216 Final remarks --



ISBN: 9783906027470

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Architecture Psychological aspects.
Architecture Italy History --20th century.
Architecture
Melancholy in art.

LC Class. No.: NA1123.R67 / L67 2015