Architecture and Ideology
Architecture and Ideology
Architecture and Ideology
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DINA NENCINI, Professor<br />
Faculty of <strong>Architecture</strong>, Sapienza University of Rome, dinanencini@libero.it<br />
REPLACE IDEOLOGY.<br />
TOWARDS NEW URBAN VISIONS.<br />
Abstract |<br />
How architects means today the reality has to be? From South America to China, the hyper‐<br />
metropolis, is paradoxical in its inhumanity. Is the economics <strong>and</strong> financial system a degenerate<br />
form of ideology, or an implicit destiny in the construction of the city of the past, unable to<br />
accept <strong>and</strong> include or even resist the social <strong>and</strong> economic transformations of our time? Or the<br />
European city can still set an example or an alternative to global mega‐cities? The uniquely<br />
instrumental ability, or, the ability of architecture to materialize the idea of a city, or more<br />
generally the idea of space, is an assumption of this argument, <strong>and</strong> yet, although we can be<br />
certain that this capacity is always expressed, by Renaissance treatises up to the heteronomous<br />
expressions as «S, M, L, XL» which urges us to take a position as architects on the<br />
contemporary city is its aesthetic reason.<br />
Key words |<br />
realism, urban vision, policies, european cities, adaptative capacity
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