TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lopes,Diogo Seixas
TI  - Melanchloly and architecture ; on Aldo Rossi
SN  - 9783906027470
AV  - NA1123.R67 L67 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Switzerland
PB  - Park Book
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Local
KW  - Italy
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Melancholy in art
N1  - 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 --


ER  -