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ROGERS, Ernesto N.CIAM. Il cuore della città

Milano,  Hoepli 1954

For a more humane community life. Numerous black and white illustrations, photographs and reliefs. Introductory text by Le Corbusier. Translation by Julia Banfi Bertolotti.  Texts part one ‘Aspects of urban centres: the heart of the city'.:  J.L. Sert, S. Giedion, Gregor Paulsson, G. Scott Williamson, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, J.J. Sweeney, J.M. Richards, Ian McCallum, J.B. Bakema, Ernesto N. Rogers, P.L. Wiener, Maxwell Fry, R.J. Neutra, A. Ling, W.J. Holford, Jacqueline Tyrwhitt. Part Two: Examples, the work of CIAM: Opbo Group, Gegenbach and Mollo Christensen, Olof Thumstrom and the Swedish Cooperative, Students of the Institute of Design in Chicago, Students of the Pratt Insitute, L'Equerre Group, Norwegian Group, Students of the Architectural Association, Gordon Stephenson, Le Corbusier, Moroccan Group, Wiener and Sert, Jeanneret, Fry and Drew, J. Alaurent, D.E. Gibson, Kenzo Tange, O. Senn, Harvard University students, W. Vetter, Yale University students. Part Three: Summary of the 8th CIAM Congress

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4to,  pp. 183 Rilegato (hardback) Manca la sovracoperta. firma di appartenenza all'occhiello (No DJ. Owner's name on the half-title) Molto buono (Very Good)

In 1951, at the VIII CIAM Congress in Hoddesden, England, Ernesto Nathan Rogers presented a paper entitled The Heart: the Human Problem of the City, which would be published, with reworkings, four years later in this volume, published by Hoepli. Many years later, that text still appears extraordinarily topical and useful in orienting reasoning on intervention in the city of history. Rogers identifies two opposite, but equally dangerous, attitudes in levelling cosmopolitanism and demagogic folklorism. 'Blindly destroying or passively preserving are [...] the results of the same mental aridity. [... ] Let us think, on the one hand, of what has occurred in certain economically emerging realities, China, India or South America, where contemporary megacities have consumed and are consuming the territory in an undifferentiated manner, in terms of form and function, and indifferent to local identity values, and, on the other, of what is happening in old Europe, where historic centres are embalmed by an often uncritical vision of conservation, which in addition produces the paradox of leaving space only for those architectures that Gregotti has called enlarged design images that certainly no longer qualify as monuments because they do not represent a community whose civic values they sum up, but only the architect and, often, values of a predominantly economic nature

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