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Le langage moderne de l'architecture

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205pages. in8. Broché.

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First published January 1, 1973

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November 21, 2019
A sound, sharp and unrelenting attack on architects building structures consisting entirely of boxes and right angles.



Palazzetto dello Sport, Rome - Pier Luigi Nervi (1960)

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J'aime beaucoup l'idée de base de Bruno Zevi.
Posons-nous la question du pourquoi en architecture. Dépassons l'architecture des boîtes accolées les unes aux autres, obsessionnellement, par pur mimétisme, degré zéro de l'architecture.


Pier Luigi Nervi Petit palais des Sports, Rome - Pier Luigi Nervi (1960)


Voilà les pistes que l'auteur propose pour dépasser nos fameuses boîtes à chaussures :

1) Faire l'inventaire des éléments d'architecture, puis les re-sémentiser. (Pourquoi ici un empilement, pourquoi ici une séparation, pourquoi cette orientation pour la fenêtre ?)

2) Cultiver l'asymétrie, la dissonance. Être capable de s'affranchir de la façade, qui n'est pas inévitable en architecture, rendre la façade non finie.

3) Jouer avec la tridimensionnalité des volumes. Dépasser l'enfermement de l'homme dans des boîtes à toutes les échelles. Partir des piliers, non du modèle de la boîte. Comme dans cet espace de bureaux :


Johnson Wax Building, New York - Frank Lloyd Wright (1939)

4) Temporaliser l'espace,

5) et le réintégrer dans son territoire.


Bruno Zevi remarque l'influence directe de l'architecture dominante sur l'esprit contemporain. Ainsi, nos boîtes traduisent certainement le besoin obsessionnel de sécurité, le refus de l'indétermination, de la relativité, la peur de la maturation.

L'architecture, c'est comme une musique, l'histoire des villes, c'est comme une langue vivante.



Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona, Etats-Unis - Frank Lloyd Wright (1937)


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February 16, 2009
the 7 invariables which Zevi outlines in this book are compelling and from my perspective a good start at defining a modern vocabulary for architects. there's much more to add, since this was published in 1978, but it's a great start. just excuse Zevi for his sometimes ridiculous tirades (at one point he makes a case that symmetry, homogeneity, and homosexuality are all tied together. i shit you not.).
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July 1, 2007
Zevi was a wonderfully cranky Italian architect-writer (born 1918) who set out to create a lanugage of modern architecture to compete with that of classical architecture. This new language may not help you describe a Frank Gehry building, but it goes a long way in helping put it in context. You'll never look at a T-square and symmetrical architecture the same again.
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October 25, 2023
Great discourse on architectural history. I particularly enjoyed the discussion on how symmetry was a key way of expressing fascism. Other interesting topics included spatial syntax, classism vs. anti-classism, composition of space, integration of buildings in an urban setting, structural engineering interfacing with architecture, and so on.
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