Planning Criticism: Operative Contingencies in the Project of the Italian Tendenza

Contemporary architectural production seems to be generally defined by the recent fascinationwith speculative technologies and interdisciplinary processes. However, it has alsobecome evident that its sense of criticality appears to lack the discursive specificity or a tendencythat sees architecture as a form of internal knowledge characterized by its inherentwill to the critical. It also re-assesses the importance and centrality of the architectural artifactas the point of reference for a reestablished sense of criticality. Accordingly, the openingposition of this paper is that rather than addressing what Georg Simmel called “overstimulatingprocesses of technical rationalization,”2 it is time to shift our attention to the architecturalwork and critically historicize its conceptual framework by defining its internal domain.

Volume Editors
Robert Corser & Sharon Haar

ISBN
978-1-944214-03-6