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Maria Pilar Vettori Maria Pilar Faroldi Emilio Emilio Faroldi (1961), architect and PhD, is a professor The dialogue, as “the talking of the soul with itself” that constitutes the Emilio Faroldi at the Politecnico di Milano, engaged in teaching and act of thinking (Plato), has been selected as the ideal form through which Maria Pilar Vettori research on themes related to architectural design, with to vividly and accurately convey the thinking of a number of protagonists a particular focus on the relations that exist between idea, design and construction in architecture. of Italian modern architecture. He has organized international design conferences, Knowledge remains a latent legacy of the soul until a given stimulus courses and seminars. The author of many publications, reawakens its memory: architecture, more than sophia (wisdom), becomes for over a decade he has coordinated the programs philo-sophia, i.e. love of knowledge. A reading of the architectural of study in Architectural Sciences and Architectural DIALOGUES ON Design at the Politecnico di Milano. He is presently phenomenon aimed at faithfully bringing out its complexity cannot editor-in-chief of the TECHNE_ Journal of Technology help but involve the stories directly told by the protagonists, and the for Architecture and Environment, and director of the micro-stories of individual episodes, in order to explore the relationship Design Construction Management ARCHITECTURE 2nd-level Master in that exists between the poetic and the technical-scientific spheres, of Sports Infrastructures. A professor of the International underlining their complementary and conflictual nature. The disciplinary ON ARCHITECTURE DIALOGUES Academy of Architecture, since January 2017 his is acting pro-rector of the Politecnico di Milano. tools of exegesis of design and its materialization stimulate a form of critique of criticism driven by the rejection of an angle of interpretation Maria Pilar Vettori (1968), architect and PhD, is a of architecture oriented exclusively towards its results. Method and Franco Albini professor at the Politecnico di Milano. result constitute the inseparable terms: the direct testimony of certain BBPR She teaches at the School of Architecture Urban protagonists of Italian architecture makes it possible to reconnect the Planning Constructions Engineering at the Politecnico Lodovico B. di Belgiojoso di Milano in the area of Technological Design of interrupted threads of a narrative that has often been rendered syncopated Architecture. She has taken part in research and and unilateral by excessively superficial explanation. Guido Canella consulting projects regarding processes, methods and tools for programming, construction and management Aurelio Cortesi of architecture, with a particular focus on innovation The Dialogues on Architecture explore the interaction between idea, design Gabetti e Isola in processes of design and production of structures and construction, revealing different operative and conceptual modes and infrastructures for healthcare, wellness and sports, through which to achieve the finished work. Franco Albini, Lodovico B. Ignazio Gardella research and production. She has participated in Belgiojoso, Guido Canella, Aurelio Cortesi, Roberto Gabetti & Aimaro Isola, Vittorio Gregotti and organized conferences, seminars and workshops, Ignazio Gardella, Vittorio Gregotti, Vico Magistretti, Enrico Mantero, Paolo and she has worked continuously on studies and Vico Magistretti publications. Portoghesi, Aldo Rossi, Giuseppe Terragni, Vittoriano Viganò are the authors of this narrative. Enrico Mantero Paolo Portoghesi Aldo Rossi Giuseppe Terragni Vittoriano Viganò ISBN 978-88-6242-372-4 First English edition October 2019 Third Italian edition May 2019 Second Italian edition June 2004 – Alinea Editrice First Italian edition December 1995 – Alinea Editrice © LetteraVentidue Edizioni © Emilio Faroldi, Maria Pilar Vettori The reproduction, also partial, by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, even for in-house or educational use, is forbidden. Under Italian law, photocopying is permitted only for personal use, as long as it does not harm the author(s) in any way. Therefore any photocopying that prevents the purchase of a book is illegal and represents a threat to the survival of a way of communicating knowledge. Those who make photocopies of a book, provide the means for doing so, or encourage this practice, take part in a theft and a practice that is harmful to culture. Translation: Stephen Piccolo Book design: Raffaello Buccheri LetteraVentidue Edizioni Srl Via Luigi Spagna 50 P 96100 Siracusa, Italia www.letteraventidue.com Emilio Faroldi Maria Pilar Vettori DIALOGUES ON ARCHITECTURE Franco Albini BBPR Lodovico B. di Belgiojoso Guido Canella Aurelio Cortesi Gabetti e Isola Ignazio Gardella Vittorio Gregotti Vico Magistretti Enrico Mantero Paolo Portoghesi Aldo Rossi Giuseppe Terragni Vittoriano Viganò Acknowledgments The preparation and publication of this text involved the cooperation of many people. We are very grateful to the persons interviewed, and as the editors of this volume we would like to thank all those who for professional courtesy or friendship have contributed – in different ways and roles – to make the initial idea become a reality. In this sense, an initial thought turns to Fabrizio Schiaffonati and Antonio Scoccimarro. We would also like to thank the various counterparts who in the individual studios played a fundamental role, stimulating and establishing relationships with the protagonists of the Dialogues. In alphabetical order: Elisabetta Annovi and Andrea Leonardi of Studio Aldo Rossi; Antonella Bergamin of Gregotti Associati; Maria Canella and Luca Monica of Studio Canella; Ezi Cicerone and Marcello Lanzillotti, Studio Gardella; Tiziana Di Gioia, Studio Viganò; Rosanna Guella, Studio Albini-Helg-Piva; Katia Guglielmi, Studio Cortesi; the geometer Franco Montella, Studio Magistretti; Susanna Michellini, Studio Portoghesi; Cristina Molinari and Vittoria Spinelli, Studio BBPR. Thanks also to Matilde Baffa, Jacopo Gardella, Michael Graves, Paolo Zermani, for their contributions. Finally, thanks to Barbara Corradi and Roberto Venturini for their patient editorial work; to Ugo Iorio and Maria Paola Gambara; Nanda and Nadir, Donata and Stefano. And a special thought for Ferdinando, always a presence in our work. In the life span of 23 years the book Dialogues on architecture some of the protagonists of Italian modern architecture have passed away. Our thoughts turn to them, in particular, to express our gratitude for the works of architecture they have given to the community and to the Italian territory, and for the teachings they have transmitted to successive generations, indelible signs of continuity and indispensable tools for those approaching the architectural profession. We fondly remember Lodovico B. Belgiojoso (1909-2004), Roberto Gabetti (1925-2000), Ignazio Gardella (1905-1999), Enrico Mantero (1934-2001), Aldo Rossi (1931-1997), Vittoriano Viganò (1919-1996), Vico Magistretti (1920-2006), Guido Canella (1931-2009), to whom we will be forever grateful for the commitment, dedication and collaboration during the preparation of Dialogues on architecture, and for the friendship they offered us through their empathy and signals of approval regarding the results of the work. Perhaps it has been precisely the idea of summing up in a single volume the theoretical contributions of such a highly qualified group of master architects, brought together in the attempt to interpret their thinking regarding the role of architectural design in contemporary culture, that has become the qualitative factor leading to the success of this operation, prompting the publication of a new, updated edition that in any case keeps faith with the first version, dating back to 1995, and the second edition in 2004. The same reasons, combined with the force and depth of the debate conducted by “active criticism” regarding Italian postwar architecture and its main protagonists, like behind the publication, two years after the book’s release, of the volume in Portuguese edited by Emilio Faroldi, Maria Pilar Vettori, Dialogos de Arquitetura, Editora Siciliano, São Paulo 1997, with an introduction by Oscar Niemeyer. The work was presented at the Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo on 9 April 1997 within the seminar “As relações Brasil-Italiana Globalizaçao da Arquitetura” organized by the Italian Cultural Institute in São Paulo, Brazil. The third edition is based on the spirit of not interfering with the temporal location of the individual contributions, encouraging diachronic reading: a spirit that translates into the attempt to leave intact the logical and methodological structure of the work, implemented by an introductory text that sets out to translate and emphasize the contemporary character and intact timeliness of the theoretical message contained in the essays, flanked by bibliographic research that in line with this assumption is kept separate, for taxonomic clarity, and not integrated with the original version. In this regard, we thank Lorenza Campodonico for the collaboration on the finding of the texts and the principle publications on these topics, in the period from 1995 to 2004. For this third edition, thanks to Giulia Faruffini and Erika Siverio for their help in the preparation of the material, and to Cecilia Rostagni for her work on the capillary implementation of the bibliography, covering