Shape Computation Lab

Outlining Terragni

 


Title:

Outlining Terragni: A Riddle Reworked

Authors:

Hayri Dortdivanlioglu and Athanassios Economou

Editors:

Gülen Çağdaş, Mine Özkar, Leman Figen Gül, Ethem Gürer

Conference:

Futures Trajectories of Computation in Design: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference of Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures (CAADFutures)

Book Series:

Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS)

Volume:

724

Pages:

381–394

Publisher:

Springer, Singapore

Publication date:

2017

DOI:

10.1007/978-981-10-5197-5_21

Keywords:

Shape grammars, Generative design, Architectural language, Type and style, Italian rationalism

Abstract:

Despite his controversial political background, the leading architect of the Italian Rationalist Movement, Giuseppe Terragni, has attracted the attention of a large group of architectural scholars. He has often been acknowledged as an enigmatic architect whose work oscillated between classicism and modernism. This work takes on two of the most emblematic projects by Terragni, the Mambretti Tomb and the Danteum and provides a formal generation of both projects in the form of two parametric shape grammars to inquire on the possibility of a common compositional strategy underlying both projects. A new interpretation of Terragni’s work as a non-classical/classical computational model is given in the end.

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