Architecture is too serious to be left to architects.
Conference editions| N° d'inventaire | 25656 |
| Format | 16.5 x 23 |
| Détails | 356 p., publisher's hardcover with dust jacket. |
| Publication | Trocy-en-Mulien, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9791097497392 |
The book presents, in chronological order of their publication, from 1959 to 1993, major texts by the architect Giancarlo De Carlo (1919-2005), which have never been translated into French; it thus aims to give an idea of the scope of his work and the importance of his thinking for those who care about the space in which he lives.
The reader is invited to follow the journey and development of a thought that begins by distancing itself from the influence of the Modern Movement and ends with an "educational meditation" of exceptional quality on the task of the architect grappling with the question of the city and the territory.
The reflection on architecture, proposed by a mind concerned with precision and essentially focused on the clearest possible transmission to the public, to students, to all the "users" of built forms, is so little separated from that on the physical, geographical, historical context, that it takes on an aesthetic and political turn at the same time: Giancarlo De Carlo looks at the teaching of architecture at university, the debates that have agitated the latter since before 68, the administration and the plans that its urban development supposes, the forms and territories in which it is inscribed and which it reinvents, as well as at the public to which it is addressed, by means of the idea of "participation", too often misunderstood, thus rediscovering its dimension of habitation and negotiation with the real space where to live and find reasons to live. In doing so, he asks an essential question: for whom, ultimately, do we build?
The book presents, in chronological order of their publication, from 1959 to 1993, major texts by the architect Giancarlo De Carlo (1919-2005), which have never been translated into French; it thus aims to give an idea of the scope of his work and the importance of his thinking for those who care about the space in which he lives.
The reader is invited to follow the journey and development of a thought that begins by distancing itself from the influence of the Modern Movement and ends with an "educational meditation" of exceptional quality on the task of the architect grappling with the question of the city and the territory.
The reflection on architecture, proposed by a mind concerned with precision and essentially focused on the clearest possible transmission to the public, to students, to all the "users" of built forms, is so little separated from that on the physical, geographical, historical context, that it takes on an aesthetic and political turn at the same time: Giancarlo De Carlo looks at the teaching of architecture at university, the debates that have agitated the latter since before 68, the administration and the plans that its urban development supposes, the forms and territories in which it is inscribed and which it reinvents, as well as at the public to which it is addressed, by means of the idea of "participation", too often misunderstood, thus rediscovering its dimension of habitation and negotiation with the real space where to live and find reasons to live. In doing so, he asks an essential question: for whom, ultimately, do we build?