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Constantinos A. Doxiadis e la sua Entopia: La promessa di un’utopia moderata e di un modernismo umanizzato

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  • Panayiota Pyla
Panayiota Pyla
University of Cyprus
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12838/fam/issn2039-0491/n47-2019/234

Pubblicato 2019-04-01

Parole chiave

  • Doxiadis,
  • Entopia,
  • Utopia

Come citare

Pyla, P. (2019). Constantinos A. Doxiadis e la sua Entopia: La promessa di un’utopia moderata e di un modernismo umanizzato. FAMagazine. Ricerche E Progetti sull’architettura E La Città, (47), 96–107. https://doi.org/10.12838/fam/issn2039-0491/n47-2019/234
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Abstract

Questo saggio riassume la storia e la politica della visione urbana di Constantinos Doxiadis, fiorita a livello internazionale dopo la seconda guerra mondiale, che reinventava gli architetti pianificatori come scienziati, tecnocrati e esperti di sviluppo, rinegoziando il razionalismo e l’individualismo del modernismo. Concentrandosi su “entopia”, la visione di Doxiadis di un tessuto urbano ideale, il saggio espone le ambizioni sociali e formali della teoria Echistica di Doxiadis e analizza gli allineamenti del suo Doxiadis Associates con i nuovi discorsi postbellici sullo sviluppo socioeconomico internazionale e sulla gestione ambientale. Entopia fornisce la base per una riflessione critica sulla versione modernista di Doxiadis, la sua enfasi sulla multidisciplinarietà e le sue concezioni di “armonia” globale, tutte in linea con le attuali situazioni socio-politiche, urbane e ambientali.

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