Roberta Marcaccio, Roberta Marcaccio

The Hero of Doubt

Selected Writings by Ernesto Nathan Rogers

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"A first-ever English-language comprehensive anthology of the writings of pioneering Italian modern architect Ernesto Nathan Rogers"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 236mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1082g
• ISBN-13: 9780262049047
• ISBN-10: 026204904X
• Artikelnr.: 71230170

Autorenporträt

edited by Roberta Marcaccio; introduction by Roberta Marcaccio; translated by Steve Piccolo; afterword by Joan Ockman

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: ‘Big Doubts and Little Uncertainties’
Introduction by Roberta Marcaccio
The Many Voices of Ernesto Nathan Rogers
An Architect for Himself (1957)
A Shared Tongue
Presentation of Degree Projects (1932)
The Formation of an Architect (1933)
The Voices of the Anonymous
Dear Ernesto (1938–39)
Confessions of a Twentieth-Century Anonymous (1941–42)
Remembering Gian Luigi Banfi (1945)
Catharsis (1946)
The Editorial Voice
Programme: Domus, The House of Man (1946)
Problems (1946–47)
Reconstruction: From The Useful Object to the City (November 1946)
In Praise of Tendencies (1946)
Parable (1947)
Farewell (1947)
Continuity (1953)
Preexisting Conditions and Issues of Contemporary Building Practice (1955)
Orthodoxy of Heterodoxy (1957)
Continuity or Crisis? (1957)
At Expo ’58 the Future (Of Architecture) Has Yet to Begin (1958)
The Evolution of Architecture: Reply To The Keeper of the Frigidaires
(1959)
Presentation of Torre Velasca at Ciam ‘59 (1959)
Ciam at the Museum (1959)
Discontinuity or Continuity (1964)
The Voices of The Generations
Dear Dani (1933)
The ‘I Don’t Agree’ Clan (1949)
Who Are You? (1953)
Modern Architecture Since yhe Generation Of Masters (1956)
The Elements of Architecture (1958)
The Utopia of Reality (1962)
Le Corbusier (1965)
Man In the Middle
Timeline
Afterword by Joan Ockman
Acknowledgements
List of Sources