TY - GEN AU - Peckham, Andrew Ed. AU - Schmmiedeknecht, Torsten Ed. TI - Rational reader : architecture and rationalism in western Europe 1920-1940/1960-1990 SN - 9780415604369 U1 - 720.94 PY - 2014/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - N1 - 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 ER -