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Robin Boyd, The Australian Ugliness, (Melbourne: F.W. Cheshire, 1960), 174, Roy Simpson Collection, RMIT Design Archives. Illustration by Robin Boyd, ©2019 Estate of Robin Boyd, courtesy Robin Boyd Foundation
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The paper examines the reorientations of the appreciation of ugliness within different national contexts in a comparative or relational frame, juxtaposing the British, Italian, and Australian milieus, and to relate them to the ways in which the transformation of the urban fabric and the effect of suburbanization were perceived in the aforementioned...
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... of Australian photographer Nigel Buesst that appeared in the 1968 and 1971 editions of The Australian Ugliness ( fig. 1), as well as the photographs taken by Robin Boyd during the late fifties when he spent some time as visiting professor at MIT and travelled around the US, and the illustrations he included in The Australian Ugliness ( fig. 2). Macarthur claims that Boyd agreed with the distinction that Kant drew between aesthetic judgment and pleasure. 3 1. Marianna Charitonidou, "Réinventer la posture historique: les débats théoriques à propos de la comparaison et des transferts", Espaces et Sociétés, 167 (2016): 137-152. https://doi. org/10.3917/esp.167.0137. Of ...
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... of Australian photographer Nigel Buesst that appeared in the 1968 and 1971 editions of The Australian Ugliness ( fig. 1), as well as the photographs taken by Robin Boyd during the late fifties when he spent some time as visiting professor at MIT and travelled around the US, and the illustrations he included in The Australian Ugliness ( fig. 2). Macarthur claims that Boyd agreed with the distinction that Kant drew between aesthetic judgment and pleasure. 3 1. Marianna Charitonidou, "Réinventer la posture historique: les débats théoriques à propos de la comparaison et des transferts", Espaces et Sociétés, 167 (2016): 137-152. https://doi. org/10.3917/esp.167.0137. Of ...
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The article examines the impact of the study for Levittown of urban sociologist Herbert Gans on Denise Scott Brown’s thought. It scrutinizes Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi, and Steven Izenour’s ‘Remedial Housing for Architects or Learning from Levittown’ conducted in collaboration with their students at Yale University in 1970. Taking as its starting point Scott Brown’s endeavour to redefine functionalism in ‘Architecture as Patterns and Systems: Learning from Planning’, and ‘The Redefinition of Functionalism’, which were included in Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time (2004), the article sheds light on the fact that the intention to shape a new way of conceiving functionalism was already present in Learning from Las Vegas, where Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour suggested an understanding of Las Vegas as pattern of activities. Particular emphasis is placed on Scott Brown’s understanding of ‘active socioplastics’, and on the impact of advocacy planning and urban sociology on her approach. At the core of the reflections developed in this article is the concept of ‘urban village’ that Gans uses in US in The Urban Villagers: Group and Class in the Life of Italian-Americans (1972) to shed light on the socio-anthropological aspects of inhabiting urban fabric.
