Posts Tagged: Urban Artifacts and a Theory of the City

Urban Artifacts and a Theory of the City / Typological Questions / Post Functionalism Response

Rossi and Eisenman view modernism as close-minded in its efforts to obtain a unity and universality behind form making.  While I would agree with their idea that to search for an object’s origin is reductive in it not acknowledging an

Urban Artifacts and a Theory of the City / Typological Questions / Post Functionalism Response

Rossi and Eisenman view modernism as close-minded in its efforts to obtain a unity and universality behind form making.  While I would agree with their idea that to search for an object’s origin is reductive in it not acknowledging an

Urban Artifacts and a Theory of the City / Typological Questions / Post Functionalism

Both Rossi and Eisenman in their writings on functionalism and modernism discuss why the “form follows function” motif of the modernists is an overly simplified view of how we arrive at form and architecture.  Rossi looks at the urban landscape

Urban Artifacts and a Theory of the City / Typological Questions / Post Functionalism

Both Rossi and Eisenman in their writings on functionalism and modernism discuss why the “form follows function” motif of the modernists is an overly simplified view of how we arrive at form and architecture.  Rossi looks at the urban landscape