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Tom Wolfe, padre del "giornalismo d'opinione", tratta qui della "perdita della qualità della vita" sotto il profilo dell'architettura. Lo scatolone di vetro è il comune risultato delle diverse tendenze che hanno animato quest'arte negli ultimi cinquant'anni: sull'impronta di Gropius, il celebre fondatore del Bauhaus, e Le Corbusier, massimo teorico del razionalismo, gli architetti europei sbarcati in America negli anni Trenta esercitarono un vero e proprio colonialismo intellettuale. Nacque così l'International Style, che ispirò palazzi di vetro, cemento e ferro, pressoché identici: privi di colore e linee curve. Ora la gente in quegli edifici tristi e scomodi non vuole più abitare, ma le soluzioni proposte dall'architettura postmoderna si limitano a riflettere e deformare i fantasmi del passato. "Nuovi scatoloni di cristallo rivestiti di lastre specchianti in modo da riflettere gli edifici vicini, anch'essi scatoloni di cristallo, e distorcere così quelle noiose linee rette, facendole sembrare curve".
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- Pagine: 144
- Data di uscita: 30-04-2001
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Fun to read Wolfe again for the first time since the late '80s or so. Such automatic energy and urbane knowingness and lists like this extended with "ands" instead of commas and exclamation points! Makes a funny point about the bourgeois not wanting to create bourgeois buildings but essentially dict Leggi tutto
This is the first Tom Wolfe book I've read, and it's an absolute hoot. Wolfe is opinionated, caustic, funny, and completely irreverent - the perfect person to write a short and never-dull book on that unclad emperor, modern architecture. This book is for everyone who's ever wondered why, even though Leggi tutto
The funny thing about Tom Wolfe is that for all of the hip edginess of his writing style, he’s actually a square. His writings were revolutionary, as he was one of the founders of New Journalism, but his own personal outlook is quite conservative. Wolfe may have gone along on a bus trip with Ken Kes Leggi tutto
I found myself imagining this extended essay as a lost Ballard or Paul Scheerbart story as I read. A new edition of this book filled with colored plates and an appendix containing longer excerpts from the written works referred to would be welcome. Even better - a complete rewrite of the book as act Leggi tutto
The Bauhaus school stripped away all tradition in the name Socialism, creating the Modernist schools and mass housing for the prols. Many of our council/ public housing horrors can laid at Bauhaus's door- howling and moaning. The blocks of glass and steel, the grey and white furnishings and interior Leggi tutto
I'm very interested in the question of why the richest and most powerful civilization in human history has decided to create the ugliest and most hateful architectural landscape imaginable, despite having the power to easily make what people enjoy and find pleasing. Tom Wolfe sees the same problem a Leggi tutto
Laugh-out-loud funny nonfiction romp about the bigoted world of 20th century architecture. Got it from the library, devoured it, handed it to my husband, then he read it aloud to me over a couple of evenings. It's a case study of how a small, prescriptivist art clique with enough snobbery and chutzp Leggi tutto
good book. I now find architecture interesting.
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