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Torre Velasca (1950-1958) by Ludovico Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti and Ernesto Nathan Rogers (BBPR) in Milano

Torre Velasca (1950-1958) by Ludovico Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti and Ernesto Nathan Rogers (BBPR) in Milano

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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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... architectural culture had maintained a sense of the continuity of the modern movement and the rationalist European experience." 36 This can explain Rogers' choice to give Casabella, which he directed since 1953, the subtitle "continuità". BBPR's Torre Velasca is a thought-provoking case study for reflecting on Tendenza's aesthetic theory (fig. 5, fig. 6). Given that it provoked several reactions and has been often characterized as ugly, its examination could illuminate Tendenza's stance towards ugliness. A common preoccupation of Tendenza and Team 10 was the concern for architecture's moral dimension. Despite the affinities between Team 10 and Ernesto Nathan Rogers' aesthetic views, ...
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... architectural culture had maintained a sense of the continuity of the modern movement and the rationalist European experience." 36 This can explain Rogers' choice to give Casabella, which he directed since 1953, the subtitle "continuità". BBPR's Torre Velasca is a thought-provoking case study for reflecting on Tendenza's aesthetic theory (fig. 5, fig. 6). Given that it provoked several reactions and has been often characterized as ugly, its examination could illuminate Tendenza's stance towards ugliness. A common preoccupation of Tendenza and Team 10 was the concern for architecture's moral dimension. Despite the affinities between Team 10 and Ernesto Nathan Rogers' aesthetic views, ...

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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.