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9. About Image, Figure and Form in Architecture in the Age of Neo-liberalism

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Abstract

Today, everything is becoming confusing due to the rapid acceleration of technical possibilities that is allowing the communication and circulation of huge quantities of data. The way we think about architecture is on the sacrificial altar of these changes. A change of scale and speed is apparent to everyone’s eyes, but the basic duties of architects are very resistant to change, unless we declare the profession dead. The problem we discuss here is referred to the persistence of stability in architecture.

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Footnotes
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2
Gallino, Il colpo di Stato cit., p. 115.
 
3
Ibid., p. 231.
 
4
Luciano Gallino, Finanzcapitalismo, Einaudi, Torino (2011), p. 17.
 
5
Henri Lefebvre, Le droit à la ville, Paris, Éditions Anthropos, 1968.
 
6
David Harvey, Rebel Cities, Verso Books, London-New York 2012.
 
7
Henri Lefebvre, La pensée marxiste et la ville, Éditions Casterman, Paris et Tournai 1972, ed. it. Il marxismo e la città, Mazzotta, Milano (1973), p. 153.
 
8
Ibid.
 
9
Niccolò Tommaseo, Dizionario della lingua italiana, Giuseppe Pomba, Turin 1861-Florence 1879, voice ‘Figura’.
 
10
Tommaseo, Dizionario cit., voice ‘Forma’.
 
11
Ibid.
 
12
Tommaseo, Dizionario cit., voice ‘Immagine’.
 
13
Ottorino Pianigiani, Dizionario etimologico della lingua italiana, F.lli Melita, La Spezia 1990, voices ‘figura’, ‘forma’, ‘immagine’.
 
14
Dino Formaggio, Estetica tempo progetto, clup, Milano 1990, p. 38.
 
15
Formaggio, Estetica cit., p. 71.
 
16
Formaggio, Estetica cit., p. 112.
 
17
Ernst Cassirer, Eidos und eidolon. Das Problem des Schönen und der Kunst in Platons Dialogen, in « Vorträge der Bibliotek Warburg», II, 1922–1923, part I, Teubner, Leipzig-Berlin 1924, pp. 1–27, it. ed. Eidos ed Eidolon. Il problema del bello e dell’arte nei dialoghi di Platone, edited by Mauro Carbone, with writings by Mauro Carbone, Renato Pettoello, Franco Trabattoni, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano (1990).
 
18
Cassirer, Eidos cit., p. 37.
 
19
Ibid., pp. 44–45.
 
20
Mauro Carbone in Cassirer, Eidos cit., p. 48, Cassirer quotation at p. 22.
 
21
Erwin Panofsky, Idea. Ein Beitrag zur Begriffsgeschichte der älteren Kunsttheorie, in «Studien der Bibliothek Warburg», V, Teubner, Leipzig-Berlin 1924, it. ed. Idea. Contributo alla storia dell’estetica, La Nuova Italia, Firenze 1952, reviewed edition 1996, now Bollati Boringhieri, Torino (2006, p. 79).
 
22
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23
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24
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25
Giorgio Agamben, L’uso dei corpi [The use of bodies], Neri Pozza, Venezia (2014).
 
26
Agamben, L’uso cit., p. 87.
 
27
Ernst Cassirer, Phylosophie der Symbolische Formen, 3 Bde. 1. Auflage: Bruno Cassirer, Berlin, 1923–1929, it. ed. Filosofia delle forme simboliche, La Nuova Italia editrice, Firenze (1964).
 
28
Cfr. Salvatore Bisogni, (ed.), Ricerche in architettura, La zolla nella dispersione delle aree metropolitane. Resoconti della ricerca Murst (2011): Funzione e figura delle architetture pubbliche e servizi per lo sviluppo sostenibile delle aree metropolitane: Firenze, Milano, Napoli, Mestre [Research in architecture, Clod in the dispersion of metropolitan areas. Research reports Murst 2000: Function and shape of public architecture and services for the sustainable development of metropolitan areas: Florence, Milan, Naples, Mestre], with writings by Salvatore Bisogni, Guido Canella, Gian Luigi Maffei, Franco Purini et al., Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Napoli 2011.
 
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Metadata
Title
About Image, Figure and Form in Architecture in the Age of Neo-liberalism
Author
Pierpaolo Gallucci
Copyright Year
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76267-8_9