De architectuur van de stad

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ISBN: 9789061685852
Dutch edition
SUN architecture
Softcover, 200 pages
17 x 22 cm
illustrated
2002
€26,89 (excl. VAT)

De architectuur van de stad

Aldo Rossi

In The Architecture of the City, Aldo Rossi introduces a new science of the city and the concept of 'architectural tendency'. In the thirty years since its publication, the book has left an indelible mark on the development of 20th-century architecture. True to the spirit of the age, it resists the modernists and, in particular, the functionalist reduction of architecture and the conception of the city as merely a product of planning processes. Rossi proposes a new method of analysing the city. His method is based on the concepts of typology and morphology and is related to the design process, which is anything but ‘neutral’. Rather it is sustained by an ‘attitude’ or an architectural tendency. The architecture of the city has outlived trends and fashions and remains a relevant instrument for those who invoke the possibility of an intrinsic rationality in architectural design.

About the author: Aldo Rossi (1931–1997), architect and founder of the rational architecture movement, was a professor at the University Institute for Architecture in Venice.

Please note: This is the Dutch edition of this publication.