TECHNE 16 (2018): Matter is design
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The architects of the other materialism

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  • Filippo Bricolo
Filippo Bricolo
Dipartimento di Architettura, Ingegneria delle Costruzioni e Ambiente Costruito, Politecnico di Milano, Italia
TECHNE 16 (2018): Matter is design
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/Techne-23017

Published 2018-05-17

Keywords

  • Materiality,
  • Tradition,
  • Innovation,
  • Identity

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Bricolo, F. (2018). The architects of the other materialism. TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, 16, 79–85. https://doi.org/10.13128/Techne-23017
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Abstract

The secular bond between materiality and meaning in architecture has undergone, during the twentieth-century phase of productivistic optimism, a strong weakening. Starting from the analysis of some masterpieces, created by architects not aligned with Modernist orthodoxy, the paper seeks out the need to mend the relationship between materiality and sense.

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