Mixing Up the Mediterranean Model: Architecture Amid Urban Flux. (6th September 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Molinari, Luca
• Other Names: Lifschutz Alex guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Architectural design. Volume 87:Number 5(2017)
• Page Start: 136
• Page End: 141
• Publication Date: 2017-09-06
• Subjects: Gambardella Architetti -- Villa Capri -- Itri -- Latium -- Italy -- 'Mediterranean model' -- Andrea Branzi -- Non‐Stop City -- Archizoom Associati -- Dada -- John Cage -- Le Corbusier -- Francesco Librizzi -- Casa G -- Cefalù -- Sicily -- Superstudio -- Archigram -- Modern Movement -- Leon Battista Alberti -- Second World War -- Welfare State -- Radical culture -- London -- Milan -- Architectural Association -- Domus Academy -- Memphis -- United States -- Ant Farm -- Austria -- Coop Himmelb(l)au -- Haus‐Rucker‐Co -- Japan -- Metabolists -- Fordist model -- Piazza Vittorio Veneto -- Montesarchio -- Campania -- Greece -- Roberto Saviano -- Renzo Piano -- Cherubino Gambardella -- 'Italy: The New Domestic Landscape' -- Emilio Ambasz -- New York -- Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) -- Ettore Sottsass Jr -- Gaetano Pesce -- Gae Aulenti -- Simona Ottieri -- Naples -- Matera -- Aristide Antonas -- Athens -- diverserighestudio -- Opificio Golinelli -- Bologna -- Labics -- MAST -- TAMassociati -- Marco Navarra; 729
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.2227
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-8504

Abstract

Abstract : The Radical movement born in 1960s Italy sparked a rethinking of the urban landscape. Its key proponents, such as Andrea Branzi, understand the city as a constantly fluctuating organism, rather than an ever‐expanding Modernist assembly of parts with fixed functions. Luca Molinari – Professor of History and Theory of Contemporary Architecture at the Università degli Studi della Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli', Naples – reflects on how this organic model recalls that of traditional Mediterranean towns. He traces the spread of its influence around the world in recent decades, and asks whether it could be a solution to the decline of suburbia in economically advanced nations.