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Between Pragmatism and Theory |
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| Authors: | Francesco Proto |
| Abstract: | For the last three decades, Italian architecture has been characterised by an extreme polarisation. At one end of the spectrum have been the neo-conservators, who are subsumed by Italy's history, and at the other end the avant-garde for whom innovation is the Holy Grail and the present is a clean slate. Francesco Proto outlines the current potential for steering a middle course that will afford a greater eclecticism, enabling a natural balance between pragmatism and theory. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
| Keywords: | rejection of the tabula rasa ‘Italian paradigm’ rejection of Modernist tradition First World War Italian Rationalism Second World War Postmodernism Portoghesi's Strada Novissima Bruno Zevi's urgent need for innovation Aldo Rossi's taste for symbolic historicism Organicists and Rationalists Vittorio Gregotti and Francesco Dal Co ‘star system’ Erasmus generation ‘Less Aesthetics - More Ethics’ Venice Biennale ‘superstar’ Massimiliano Fuksas Franco Purini ‘up-to-date-eclecticism’ VEMA (Verona-MAntova) the ‘ground zero’ of Italian Urbanism ‘Made in Italy’ architecture |