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Title: Urban Fact, The
Author: GRAZIANI STEFANO
Format: HARDCOVER
Imprint: WALTHER KONIG
Price: $90.00
Publishing status: Active
The Urban Fact examines Aldo Rossi’s formulation of a
theory of the city, developed over the period of roughly ten
years, from Architecture of the City published in 1966, to
Analogous City exhibited in 1976. Rossi’s theory is not
taken as an abstract argument, but is seen through his
work from that period. A careful selection of twenty-three
projects is presented here at face value. These projects,
bound by the reality of their setting, but also charged with
cultural and civic ambition, illustrate the intricacy of an
architectural project as a complex \”whole\”. They also
demonstrate how architecture could contribute to the
changing urban context of the field, hinting at an oeuvre
painfully aware of its limitations and stubborn in its
intentions.
ISBN: 9783960989769