An Interview with Giorgio Grassi

In January 2007, Lucia Tozzi visited Giorgio Grassi's office in Milan. Their conversation touched on Grassi's recent work on Leon Battista Alberti, which is examined here in the context of Grassi's obliquely expressed views on contemporary architecture and the cult of personality. As...

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Published in:Architectural design 2007-09, Vol.77 (5), p.26-29
Main Author: Tozzi, Lucia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
"INA Casa" quarters
"out-datedness"
artificial ruin
contemporary city
Guiseppe Samonà
Heidegger's techné
History of Italian Architecture 1944-1985
IIUAV (University Institute of Architecture Venice)
Leon Battista Alberti
Manfredo Tarfuri's writing
Neorationalism
Potsdamer Platz
Rem Koolhaas' Junkspace
Roman Theatre
Roman Theatre, Sagunto
Sagunto
Sant'Ambrogio in Milan
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Summary:In January 2007, Lucia Tozzi visited Giorgio Grassi's office in Milan. Their conversation touched on Grassi's recent work on Leon Battista Alberti, which is examined here in the context of Grassi's obliquely expressed views on contemporary architecture and the cult of personality. As perhaps the most intellectually rigorous and formally consistent Rationalist architect of his generation, Grassi's work and thinking retain a hermetic aspect, but one notable for its philosophical self‐questioning and underlying political commitment. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
ISSN:0003-8504
1554-2769
DOI:10.1002/ad.511