This document discusses the inseparable relationship between history and design in architecture. It argues that history has inevitably influenced modern design discourse, rather than having a purely negative effect. As evidence, it briefly mentions several notable post-war architectural experiments, including Philip Johnson's Glass House and Rem Koolhaas's Rotterdam Kunsthalle, that arose from the collusion between history and design.
This document discusses the inseparable relationship between history and design in architecture. It argues that history has inevitably influenced modern design discourse, rather than having a purely negative effect. As evidence, it briefly mentions several notable post-war architectural experiments, including Philip Johnson's Glass House and Rem Koolhaas's Rotterdam Kunsthalle, that arose from the collusion between history and design.
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architecture and history (AA school first year hts)
This document discusses the inseparable relationship between history and design in architecture. It argues that history has inevitably influenced modern design discourse, rather than having a purely negative effect. As evidence, it briefly mentions several notable post-war architectural experiments, including Philip Johnson's Glass House and Rem Koolhaas's Rotterdam Kunsthalle, that arose from the collusion between history and design.
This document discusses the inseparable relationship between history and design in architecture. It argues that history has inevitably influenced modern design discourse, rather than having a purely negative effect. As evidence, it briefly mentions several notable post-war architectural experiments, including Philip Johnson's Glass House and Rem Koolhaas's Rotterdam Kunsthalle, that arose from the collusion between history and design.
In this investigation, then, I hope to demonstrate, not the pernicious effect of history on design, nor the need radically
to separate the two,
but rather their inevitable collusion that pervades all modern architectural discourse, a collusion that has given rise to some of the more interesting architectural experiments of the Postwar period, including Johnson's Glass House, Stirling's Staatsgalerie, Archigram's Living City, Rossi's Citta Analogia, and, more recently, Koolhaas's Rotterdam Kunsthalle, to give only a very few examples -------- Anthony Vilder.