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 --
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