Architettura e saperi / Architecture and Knowledge

✍ Scribed by Sonja Hildebrand, Daniela Mondini, Roberta Grignolo, Bruno Pedretti

• Publisher: Mendrisio Academy Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 249
• Series: Quaderni dell'Accademia di architettura
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Architecture and Knowledge, as the volume’s title effectively anticipates, presents numerous essays exploring the multiple forms of knowledge involved in architectural art. The contributions speak of the relations between architecture and technology, political thought, planning, philosophy, history, hermeneutics, anthropology, psychology and aesthetics. This, however, does not take the form of an encroachment on other disciplinary fields, but confirms the “holistic” structure of architecture, an art that in its exercise must inevitably draw on a broad range of cultural and scientific instruments. Architecture as an open art, enriched by the dialogue with multiple forms of knowledge, is, moreover, the most precious legacy we receive from the great architectural works of history, from both the remote past and modernity.

✦ Table of Contents

Riccardo Blumer, Marco Della Torre - L'architettura, arte aperta / Architecture, an Open Art

Sonja Hildebrand, Daniela Mondini, Roberta Grignolo - On the Importance of Knowledge for Architecture / L'importanza dei saperi per l'architettura

Architecture and Knowledge
Howard Burns - Thomas Jefferson: Knowledge and the Making of Architecture

Architettura e tecnologia
Veronica Biermann - Peso leggero, leggerezza pesante. Architettura e forza di gravità in Domenico Fontana e Mies van der Rohe

Architettura e storia
Daniela Mondini - La storia come archivio di exempla. Stuart & Revett e le raccolte illustrate di antichità tra Sette e Ottocento

Progress of Architecture:
Michael Gnehm - History in Contemporary Architecture

Architettura ed ermeneutica
Sonja Hildebrand - Unione relativa. Riflessioni sull’ermeneutica architettonica di Gottfried Semper

Architecture and Anthropology
Elena Chestnova - Substantial Differences: Semper’s Stoffwechsel and Truth to Materials
Sascha Roesler - Allegory of the Sustainable City. The Wind Catchers of Hyderabad (Pakistan) and Their Spread in the Modern Architectural Discourse

Architecture and Aesthetics
Matthias Brunner - Connecting with Nature and Modelling after Nature. Richard Neutra and Dynamic Light
Silvia Berselli - Colore o forma? L’estetica scientifica di Charles Henry nella ricezione di Seurat, Signac e Le Corbusier

Architettura e retorica
Tim Benton - Ragione e sentimento. L’arte retorica di Le Corbusier

Architettura e restauro
Roberta Grignolo - Ritornare all’opera. Esempi e controesempi nel restauro delle architetture di Le Corbusier

Architecture and Philosophy
Jasper Cepl - Architectural Design in the Interplay between Conjectures and Refutations. Karl Popper and the Architects

Architecture and Planning
Natalie Heger - Design Practices in the 1960s. The Case of the Olympic Village in Munich

Architettura e psicologia
Angelika Schnell - La modernità come patologia, ovvero: l’effetto Mondrian

Note biografiche

Biographies