Totem and taboo in architectural imagination

by Alessandro Rocca

Identify powerful features of the architecture of the present time seeking to illuminate hidden knowledge and processes through a few key concepts. The apparently, it seems so essential to understand today’s architecture but which, on closer analysis, turns out instead to be an absence, an unsolved problem, an enigma hidden behind a culture secretly afflicted by iconoclasm. Post-production and so relevant in the avant-garde and now fixed as an indispensable but often hidden creative component. The the hidden but almost always present humour that corrodes the immediate message of architecture and makes it more unstable and, above all, more interesting. a component censored by Modernism that today is once again the protagonist in new guises. The relationship with the a secret affair that remains as a founding root of Western architecture.

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Published February 24, 2022