TY - BOOK ID - 5414566 TI - Giuseppe Terragni : transformations, decompositions, critiques AU - Eisenman, Peter AU - Terragni, Giuseppe AU - Tafuri, Manfredo PY - 2003 SN - 1885254962 9781885254962 PB - New York : The Monacelli Press, DB - UniCat KW - Terragni, Giuseppe, KW - Eisenman, Peter, KW - Casa del Fascio KW - Casa Giuliani-Frigerio KW - Casa del Popolo KW - 72 KW - Terragni, Giuseppe KW - Eisenman, Peter KW - Como KW - Lombardia KW - Terragni, Giuseppe 1904-1943 (°Meda, Italië) KW - Eisenman, Peter °1932 (°Newark, New Jersey, VS) KW - Como ; Casa Giuliani-Frigerio ; Casa del Fascio KW - Architectuur ; Italië ; rationalisme KW - Architectuur ; modernisme ; 1890-1940 ; Italië KW - Architectuur ; fascisme ; nationalisme ; Italië KW - 72.07 KW - Architectuur KW - Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z KW - Analyse architecturale KW - Architecte KW - Architecture contemporaine KW - Italie KW - Architecture KW - History KW - Casa del fascio (Abbadia, Italy) KW - Casa Giuliani-Frigerio (Como, Italy) KW - Terragni, Giuseppe, 1904-1943 KW - Terragni, Guiseppe UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5414566 AB - Forty years in the making, Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques documents and investigates two of Italian rationalist architect Giuseppe Terragni's masterworks: the Casa del Fascio (1933-36) and the Casa Giuliani-Frigerio (1939-40), both in Como. This far-reaching study - illustrated with more than five hundred original architectural diagrams and archival photographs - employs what Eisenman calls critical and textual reading of both buildings. He attempts to broaden the definition of the formal from a narrow aesthetic and compositional view to include first the conceptual and then the textual. It is through this idea of the textual that Eisenman begins to define an idea of the critical in architecture. Eisenman's methodology is wholly removed from traditional approaches - social, historical, aesthetic, functional. Instead, the various articulations and openings on the facades constitute a set of marks, notations that provide the basis for his analysis. In the Casa del Fascio, for example, each of the four sequential design schemes records the previous state, encoding the process of transformation in the final building. In the Casa Giuliani-Frigerio it is instead the process of decomposition that generates the facades. Also included in the book are an essay by Terragni and a critique by Manfredo Tafuri. In the end, it is the dual protagonists - the architect and the author - who together establish a new theoretical and analytical framework. (from editor) ER -