Since the end of the First World War Italian architecture has had an original and decisive impact on theories and methods of urban planning. The complexity of this impact emerges if one compares the various positions of those who have expressed a clear idea of the city and made careful observations on urban planning through systematic theories or empirical methodologies. Some have assumed as a basis for their research the relation between building typology and urban morphology, while others have emphasized one specific aspect of the city. these various approaches have generated a diversity of project methods and tools. What links all these experiences is the desire to bring the urban question back to the realm of architecture: to bridge the divide between architecture and urbanism as disciplines.
Il saggio pone a confronto le principali posizioni che hanno caratterizzato la cultura architettonica italiana tra gli anni 20 e gli anni 80, individuando una doppia linea di ricerca: da una parte il percorso che unisce la "scuola romana" e Saverio Muratori, con il suo approccio "fisico" e "processuale" alla tipologia e alla morfologia urbana; dall'altra il percorso che lega Aldo Rossi alla cultura milanese del Novecento, che si identifica nell'approccio "metafisico" e "modellistico" all'architettura della città. Si tratta di due posizioni molto differenti, benché accomunate da un approccio tipo-morfologico al problema urbano. Da una parte si focalizza l'attenzione sulla struttura, e dall'altra sulla forma della città; tanto che si potrebbe parlare, da una parte di "costruzione", e dall'altra di "composizione" della città.
The city as form and structure: The urban project in Italy from the 1920s to the 1980s / Menghini, Anna Bruna. - In: URBAN MORPHOLOGY. - ISSN 1027-4278. - STAMPA. - 6:2(2002), pp. 75-86.
The city as form and structure: The urban project in Italy from the 1920s to the 1980s
Menghini, Anna Bruna
2002-01-01
Abstract
Since the end of the First World War Italian architecture has had an original and decisive impact on theories and methods of urban planning. The complexity of this impact emerges if one compares the various positions of those who have expressed a clear idea of the city and made careful observations on urban planning through systematic theories or empirical methodologies. Some have assumed as a basis for their research the relation between building typology and urban morphology, while others have emphasized one specific aspect of the city. these various approaches have generated a diversity of project methods and tools. What links all these experiences is the desire to bring the urban question back to the realm of architecture: to bridge the divide between architecture and urbanism as disciplines.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
