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An Interview with Giorgio Grassi
Author(s) -
Tozzi Lucia
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.511
Subject(s) - conversation , cult , context (archaeology) , sociology , politics , architecture , work (physics) , personality , management , art history , law , philosophy , theology , engineering , psychology , art , history , visual arts , economics , psychoanalysis , political science , archaeology , mechanical engineering , communication
In January 2007, Lucia Tozzi visited Giorgio Grassi's office in Milan. Their conversation touched on Grassi's recent work on Leon Battista Alberti, which is examined here in the context of Grassi's obliquely expressed views on contemporary architecture and the cult of personality. As perhaps the most intellectually rigorous and formally consistent Rationalist architect of his generation, Grassi's work and thinking retain a hermetic aspect, but one notable for its philosophical self‐questioning and underlying political commitment. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.