Articles
Descriptions of descriptions. (Suspended) exercises of written architecture
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
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.References
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