Aldo Rossi’s World Theatre: A Reinterpretation of the Political Space in Early Postmodern Architecture
| Autor: | Melani, Sonia |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | European Architectural History Network (EAHN) Edinburgh 2021 6th International Meeting Conference Proceedings: Heteropias-Session 27-Memory, Heritage, and the PublicHeteropias-Session 27-Memory, Heritage, and the Public |
| Popis: | The World’s Theatre (Teatro del Mondo) was a floating building designed by Italian architect Aldo Rossi for the opening of the Venice Architectural Biennial of 1980. It was an ephemeral structure at the borderline of art and architecture and one of Rossi’s most eloquent examples of architecture parlante exemplifying his use of archetypes and symbolic culture to evoke the genius loci through local mythology and elements of collective memory. Rossi’s World Theatre paved the way for a particular approach to postmodern architectural production that defined the cultural landscapeof the 1980s, and its enigmatic display was almost a prediction of the onset of the postCold War era’s ‘new world order.’ The essay proposed herein centres on the investigation of the political meaning of the ‘World Theatre’ in reference to the 1980s’ venetian Biennial of Architecture on Postmodernism and to texts by Rossi’s contemporaries, Manlio Brusatin, Francesco Dal Co, Daniel Libeskind, Paolo Portoghesi, Vittorio Savi, and Manfredo Tafuri. It also proposes to explain Rossi’s understanding of the notion of genius loci and his reinterpretation of the technique of architecture parlante, intended as the architectural tradition used by architects of the enlightenment to respond to emotional inner states through the application of conventional forms and images, and to research the sensation of body-movement, disembodied forms of abstraction, and mental states of Einstein’s geometry of space-time as a form of architectural experience. In this context, Rossi’s project presents itself as an expression of the late twentieth century architects’ return to the parlante tradition through a renewed interest in semiotics, ultimately reinterpreted in terms of the meaning of, in Jean La Marche’s words ‘architectural object[s] […as] signs of life, of the collective, of the present, and of the timeless. info:eu-repo/semantics/published |
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