Contents
Preface xiii
Acknowledgements xiv
Introduction
The rationalist legacy: complement and contradiction Andrew Peckham and Torsten Schmiedeknecht 2
Rationalism: a philosophical concept in architecture (1987) Alan Colquhoun 15
Rationalist tendencies in nineteenth-century architecture Charles Rattray 24
Documents One 1920-1940 31
The architects of modernism and their texts: an introduction to the
history of modern architecture 1922-1934 by Thilo Hilpert 32
Rationalist Architecture: Type-Form and History 47
1H. P. Berlage The foundations and development of architecture (1908) 48
2 Adolf Loos Architecture (1910) 51
3 Le Corbusier Toward an architecture (1923) 54
4 Adolf Loos Regarding economy (1924) 57
5 J.J. P. Oud Yes and no: confessions of an architect (1925) 61
6 Le Corbusier Type-needs type-furniture (1925) 64
7 Gruppo 7 Architecture (1926) 65
8 August Perret The modern museum (1929) 70
9 Carlo Enrico Rava The mirror of rational architecture (1931) 71
10 Piero Bottoni .. .An architectural programme (1933) 73
11 August Perret Collective needs and architecture (1935) 75
12 Guiseppe Pagano and Guarniero Daniel Rural architecture in Italy (1936) 77
13 Hans Schmidt Architecture's relationship to typification (1956) 79
The New City 83
14 Otto Wagner Die Grofostadt (1911) 84
15 Le Corbusier The city of tomorrow and its planning (1925) 87
16 Ludwig Hilberseimer Grobstadtarchitektur (1927) 89
17 ClAM/Le Corbusier From the Athens Charter (1933) 92
18 ClAM/Le Corbusier The Athens Charter: conclusions (1933) 94
The Logic of Construction – Rationalization 97
19 Otto Wagner Modern architecture (1896) 98
20 Adolf Behne The modernjunctional building (1923) 104
21 Mies van der Rohe Office building (1923) 113
21 Mies van der Rohe Building (1923) 115
23 Ludwig Hilberseimer Construction and form (1924) 117
24 Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret Five points towards a new architecture (1926) 120
25 Mies van der Rohe Remarks on my block of flats (1927) 122
26 ClAM (Congres lnternationaux d'Architecture Moderne)
La Sarraz Declaration (1928) 123
27 Mies van der Rohe What would concrete, what would steel be without mirror glass (1933) 126
28 Giuseppe Pagano Structure and architecture (1935) 127
29 Walter Gropius The new architecture and the Bauhaus (1935) 131
Industrial Production and the Collective 133
30 Le Corbusier Mass produced buildings (1924) 134
31 Mies van der Rohe Industrial building (1924) 136
32 Mart Starn Collective design (1924) 138
33 Walter Gropius Principles if Bauhaus production [Dessau] (192 6) 140
34 Hannes Meyer The new world (1926) 141
35 Hannes Meyer Building (1928) 143
Rationalism in Retrospect 147
36 Reyner Banham Theory and design in the first machine age (1960) 148
37 Hans Schmidt Modular co-ordination in architecture (1964) 153
38 Vittorio Gregotti Thefine red thread of Italian rationalism ( 197 8) 156
39 Dennis Doordan Building modern Italy (198 8) 158
40 Richard Etlin Modernism in Italisn architecture, 1890-1940 (1991) 162
41 Michelangelo Sabatino The politics of mediterraneita in Italian modernist architecture 166
42 Pier Vittorio Aureli Architecture for barbarians - Ludwig Hi1berseimer and the rise of the generic city (2011) 170
43 David Rifkind 'Everything in the state, nothing against the state' : corporative urbanism and Rational ist architecture in fascist Italy (2012) 174
Addendum 179
Architecture, rationalism and reconstruction : the example of France 1945-55 Nicholas Bullock 180
Documents Two 1960-1990 187
The Neo -Rationalist perspective Henk Engel 188
Neo-rationalism:Type and Typology 199
44 Giulio Carlo Argan Architecture and ideology (1957) 200
45 Giulio Carlo Argan On the typology of architecture (1962) 203
46 Giorgio Grassi The question of style (196 9) 208
47 Massimo Scolari The new architecture and the avantgarde (1973) 214
48 Anthony Vidler The third typology (1978) 221
49 Bernard Huet Small manifesto (1978) 228
50 Gianfranco Caniggia and Gian Luigi Maffei Introduction: motives and propositions (1979) 230
51 Ignasi Sola-Morales Neo-rationalism and figuration (1984) 234
52 Werner Oechslin Premises for the resumption of the discussion of typoloay (1986) 242
53 Micha Bandini Typoloaical theories in architectural desian (1993) 248
54 Guido Francescato Type and the possibility of an architectural scholarship (1994) 256
Architecture and the City 261
55 Aldo Rossi The architecture of the city (1966) 262
56 Leon Krier The reconstruction of the city (197 8) 269
57 Rob Krier Typoloaical and morpholoaical elements of the concept of urban space (1979) 274
58 Carel Weeber Formal objectivity in urban design and architecture as an aspect qf rational planning (1979) 277
Logical Construction and Autonomy 283
59 Giorgio Grassi The loaical construction if architecture (1967) 284
60 Ezio Bonfanti Elements and construction: a note on the architecture of Aldo Rossi (1970) 287
61 Aldo Rossi Introduction (1974) 292
62 Luigi Snozzi Desian motivations (1975) 298
63 Giorgio Grassi Architecture as craft (1979) 300
64 Oswald Mathias Ungers Architecture's right to an autonomous language (1979) 304
65 Livio Vacchini The necessity for uselessness. Remarks on a conversation (1987) 309
66 Hans Kollhoff The myth of construction and the architectonic ( 1991) 312
Reproduction and Tradition 317
67 0. M. Ungers What is architecture? (1964) 318
68 Aldo Rossi Architecture for museums (1968) 323
69 Leon Krier The age 1reconstruction (1980)
The reconstruction 1the European city (1980) 330
Neo-rationalism in Retrospect 335
70 Manfredo Tafuri History 1Italian architecture, 1944-1985 (1982) 336
71 Fritz Neumeyer A return to humanism in architecture (2002) 343
72 Mary Louise Lobsinger The new urban scale in Italy - On Aldo Rossi's Larchitettura della citta (2006) 346
73 Pier Vittorio Aureli Rossi: the concept 1the locus as a political category 1the city (2008) 353
74 Angelika Schnell The socialist perspective 1the XVTriennale di Milano. Hans Schmidt's irifluence on Aldo Rossi (2010) 360
Postscript 369
The heroism of rationalism? 370
Hans van der Heijden 370
Rationalism David Dunster 373
Tectonics Hans Kollhoff 375
Rational- Architecture- Rationelle 1975-1978 Leon Krier 377
List of contributors 379
List of document credits 381
Index 386