Research work performed within "Architectural Theory and Practice" course with Prof. Ivica Ivo Covic. Politecnico di Milano, Facoltà di Architettura e Società - academic year 2014-2015.
Analysed buildings:
-Residential/Office Building, 1948-1950, Renato Radici
-Villa Shapira, 1960-1964, Marco Zanuso
“Shouldn’t the building, dissected like a body in an anatomy table and re-conducted to the bare
evidence of its fundamental elements, simply suggest that things are what they are?”
Manfredo di Robilant
“Under near-microscopic attention, the apparently mundane elements of architecture are revealed as unstable compounds of cultural preferences, forgotten symbolism, technological advances, mutations spawned by intensifying global exchange, climatic considerations, fluctuating thresholds of comfort, mythical desires, political calculations, regulatory requirements, neoliberal economics, new digital regimes, and, somewhere in the mix, the ideas of the architect.”
Rem Koolhaas
