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1 Aldo Rossi – “Architettura Assassinata”,
1974-75
of practice. In the introduction to the
book version of the essay quoted above, he does take care to deny the charge of
forecasting the “death of architecture”- implied by Aldo Rossi’s famous drawing
made in response to the original publication. In fact he comes down in support
of more “autonomous” architecture – such as was discussed in Chapter 2 of this
book, in terms of a critique of rationality – though here employed as the only
alternative now that capitalism has disempowered a revolutionary architecture:
What
is of interest here is the precise identification of those tasks which
capitalist development has taken away from architecture. That is to say what it
has taken away in general from prefiguration. With this, one is led almost automatically
to the discovery of what may well be the ‘drama’ of
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