Tendenza : architectures italiennes, 1965-1985 (La)

Ce catalogue permet de retracer les moments marquants et les débats de la Tendenza, mouvement pluridisciplinaire (architecture, philosophie, sociologie et art) qui a posé, dès les années 1950, une réflexion critique sur la typologie des bâtiments au travers de l'histoire. Dessins originaux, maquettes, photographies, peintures ainsi qu'une large documentation illustrent cette période.

In 1965, the University Institute of Architecture of Venice emerged as the centre of a new critical current led by Carlo Aymonino and Aldo Rossi. Under the influence of the structuralist movement, these two architects and academics advocated a linguistic approach to the history of architecture, through the concepts of architectural typology and urban morphology. The « Architettura Razionale » exhibition at the Milan Triennale of 1973 formalised this return to history, which, far from the abstraction of modernism or from any idea of avant-garde, came to be recognised as a simple trend, la Tendenza.. This catalogue, the first publication to cover this specifically Italian current, illustrates the intensity of graphic experimentation with which the architects (Carlo Aymonino, Aldo Rossi, Paolo Portoghesi, Franco Purini, Gianni Braghieri, GRAU, Dario Passi, among others) sought to redefine the logic of the architectural project.. Under the direction of Frédéric Migayrou and enriched with the research of a new generation of historians, the catalogue analyses the historicization of this movement whose apogee, marked by the construction of Aldo Rossi's (1979), followed by the « La Strada Novissima » exhibition in Venice (1980), ushered in a new concept, postmodernism, and greatly contributed to its worldwide critical success..