14.44–14.48 Giuliani Frigerio apartment block showing extra B bay on...

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Description: Giulani Frigerio apartment block, Como, Italy

TitleGiulani Frigerio apartment block, Como, Italy

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator roleArchitect

SubjectsArchitecture--Italy--History--20th centuryHousing development--Italy--20th century

StatusShowing extra B bay on the left not contained within the bent frame (44); showing asymmetry resulting from the second of rightmost B bay (45); showing another symmetry produced by a shift of the bent frame one bay to the right (46); showing anomalous B bay on the right produced after the shift of fig. 14.46 (47); showing the anomalous B bay incorporated back into the façade (48)

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14. The Futility of Objects: Decomposition and the Processes of Differentiation

Peter Eisenman

Eisenman Inside Out: Selected Writings, 1963–1988

History is not continuous.This should be compared to Franco Rella’s opening sentence in the introduction to Il Dispositivo Foucault (Cluva Libreria Editrice, 1977), 7. He uses history as discontinuous (la storia e discontinuita). The...

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Peter Eisenman

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.169-188

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Chapter subject tags:Architectural theory--20th centuryModern movement (Architecture)--20th centuryArchitecture, PostmodernArchitecture, Modern--Classical influencesTerragni, Giuseppe, 1904-1943

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