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As a way to understand the contemporary project in architecture, this book provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that string into a methodology for evaluating the contemporary language of architecture described as “contemporism” through a review of topology (form) and typology (system and elements). The contemporary project has been trying to answer the postmodern question of how to move beyond modernism through a thread of architectural styles that tried to respond to deficiencies from the modern promise and contextual changes. Yet, the question remains, should this ongoing struggle to move beyond modernism be a stylistic battle? Has the present architectural practice ever left the modernist tendencies, and is there a structure for a contemporary language in architecture? This book presents a collection of highly illustrated projects that have worked under these parameters to break away from modernism in order to present a holistic integration of topology and typology as a language for “contemporism.” The index is illustrated with individual spreads, which can be read sequentially or independently, and encourages the reader to make their own connections. It also includes interviews and contributions from Toyo Ito, Anthony Vidler, Ben van Berkel, Christian Kerez, and Greg Lynn. This book is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students in architecture.

Architecture, Modern --- Themes, motives. --- Philosophy. --- Typologie des bâtiments --- Mouvement moderne --- Technique de représentation --- Topologie

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This is the first publication on the building of the Academia Belgica in Rome, a residence for Belgian researches and artists and a centre for scientific and cultural activities. Constructed between 1937 and 1939 by the Italian Gino Cipriani and the Belgian Jean Hendrickx-Van den Bosch, in a style both modernist and Art Deco, the building has maintained not only its original exterior but also in large parts its interior decorations and even furniture. The authors investigate the conception and realisation of the original building and its interior design programme, within the context of the cultural and political exchange between Belgium and Italy in the interwar period. This richly illustrated volume includes original photographs of the building and its furniture and architectural plans, drawings and designs, plus a new series of commissioned photographs of the building by Belgian architectural photographer Maxime Delvaux

Art, Belgian. --- Architecture. --- Academia Belgica (Rome, Italy) --- Architecture --- Art deco (Architecture) --- Modernism (Architecture and urbanism) --- Cipriani, Gino --- Hendrickx-Van den Bosch, Jean --- Academia Belgica (Rome, Italy). --- Public buildings --- academies [buildings] --- Art Deco --- Modernist --- anno 1930-1939 --- Rome --- Belgium --- interior architecture [discipline] --- Academia Belgica [Roma] --- Public architecture --- Bâtiments publics. --- Architecture publique. --- Academia belgica --- Histoire. --- Rome (Italie) --- Histoire --- Bâtiment public --- Architecture publique --- Bâtiments publics.