JAV131H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Josef Paul Kleihues, Mario Botta, Kaufmann Desert House
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Dimitris pikionis, landscaping around the acropolis athens. Interior with wavy forms and natural lighting. Architecture is carefully merged with the village (e. g. size of walls, height of buildings) Injected new architecture in the existing fabric of village. Aurelio galfetti, mario botta, luigi snozzi as main architects. Style in uenced by aldo rossi (simple shapes) Losing his own style with bigger commissions. Use of ancient roman style of brick construction methods. Attempted to reintroduce vernacular in modern construction. Using old fashioned traditional ways of building and merge it with modern architecture. A city is not the stone and bricks of which its buildings are made. It is a million of acts that go into its making and the million of acts that go on within it at every moment. Vittorio magnano lampugnani (1990) urban design wit ha sense of history . No longer neglect of what was previously on site. The city as a living public space.
