New geopolitical phase, with coexistence of great emerging nations and geographical areas of decadence and decay, induced the affirmation of an alternative architectural tendency respect to iconic and dominant one, a tendency that exemplarily represents an application of the concept of less that is an attitude for acting in economical and material limited conditions. This contribution wants to show some cases of this tendency in different geographical areas of South America, Africa, some Asiatic areas, some European degraded areas, and wants to highlight in which way, starting from operative conditions of less, New-Rationalism has adopted a compositional modus that unites construction and language, redefining architecture in its essential data. These experiences, that some critics call New Contextualism, represent a new ecology, cultural and necessary datum of today, using what is present and available in situ. These cases show that architectural composition has been renewed looking at ways to recombine local materials and architectural elements, determining new meanings and values through sophisticated compositional rules that are globally established by the best architectural discipline. This is the composition of simple stereo-metric forms and it finds the centrality of construction. In fact, as happened for Le Corbusier with his studies for African architectures, and as happens today for Mumbay Studio in India, forms and construction techniques are synthetic but achieve a high expressive value, determining compositional quality of architecture.

Less Architecture. Some world cases and their relationship with paradigms of Modernism.

COSTANZO, Francesco
2012

Abstract

New geopolitical phase, with coexistence of great emerging nations and geographical areas of decadence and decay, induced the affirmation of an alternative architectural tendency respect to iconic and dominant one, a tendency that exemplarily represents an application of the concept of less that is an attitude for acting in economical and material limited conditions. This contribution wants to show some cases of this tendency in different geographical areas of South America, Africa, some Asiatic areas, some European degraded areas, and wants to highlight in which way, starting from operative conditions of less, New-Rationalism has adopted a compositional modus that unites construction and language, redefining architecture in its essential data. These experiences, that some critics call New Contextualism, represent a new ecology, cultural and necessary datum of today, using what is present and available in situ. These cases show that architectural composition has been renewed looking at ways to recombine local materials and architectural elements, determining new meanings and values through sophisticated compositional rules that are globally established by the best architectural discipline. This is the composition of simple stereo-metric forms and it finds the centrality of construction. In fact, as happened for Le Corbusier with his studies for African architectures, and as happens today for Mumbay Studio in India, forms and construction techniques are synthetic but achieve a high expressive value, determining compositional quality of architecture.
2012
978-88-6542-129-1
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