Aldo Rossi
La Tendenza. Italian Architectures 1965-1985. Centre Georges Pompidou Paris
June 20, 2012 at 6:00 PM - September 10, 2012 at 9:00 PM
Curated by Frederic Migayrou
The Centre Pompidou is devoting an exhibition to La Tendenza, a pioneering
international architectural movement, led by Aldo Rossi, that came out of Italy
in the post-war period. Architecture Collection, along with more than 250 drawings, historical
models, photographs, paintings, films, and a wide variety of documentary
material. Tendenza means ‘trend’, a form of progress that criticized the very idea of
the avant-garde as both idealistic and unrealistic. The movement rejected utopia in favour
of a political and critical architecture with a firm grip on reality. Visitors will discover the works of the most famous architects around this
movement dealing in a new way with History the Tendenza, such as Aldo Rossi,
Mario Ridolfi, Alessandro Anselmi, Carlo Aymonino, Paolo Portoghesi, Ernesto N.
Rogers, Massimo Scolari – and of other members of the movement who had a
particularly strong influence on the Italian scene: Salvatore Bisogni, Gianni
Braghieri, Arduino Cantafora, the G.R.A.U (Groupe Romain d’Architectes
Urbanistes), Edoardo Guazzoni, Antonio Monestiroli, Dario Passi, Franz Prati,
Franco Purini, Uberto Siola, Franco Stella, Daniele Vitale, Giangiacomo D’Ardia
et al.
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