No. 45/46 (2018): Architecture and narration: the architect as storyteller?
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Descriptions of descriptions. (Suspended) exercises of written architecture

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  • Francesca Belloni
Francesca Belloni
Politecnico di Milano
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12838/fam/issn2039-0491/n45/46-2018/212

Published 2019-01-02

Keywords

  • Description,
  • Architectural design,
  • Architecture,
  • Pasolini

How to Cite

Belloni, F. (2019). Descriptions of descriptions. (Suspended) exercises of written architecture. FAMagazine. Research and Projects on Architecture and the City, (45/46), 24–37. https://doi.org/10.12838/fam/issn2039-0491/n45/46-2018/212
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Abstract

Since its pre-classical antecedents, the whole history of architectural thought has been characterised by a descriptive literary form. Though not exhaustive in defining the role and cognitive task of the discipline, the description – as an analytical device –  is one of the favourite operative tools of architecture and this is true not just nowadays, at the time of storytelling, but has always been so since ancestral times. A long tradition can definitely be traced, whom only recently a name has been given to, perhaps on the wave of that predisposition to self-reflection of architecture on herself, inaugurated with the century of Enlightenment, specified in the Short Twentieth Century and become today way of thinking.
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