PT Journal
AU Budzynski, S
TI Potential Cities_
SO archimaera
PY 2015
VL einfügen
IS 006
DE CIAM; Casabella; Collage; Domus; Ernesto Nathan Rogers; Grafting; Italian Modernism; Milan; Montage; Object Relations Theory; Pier Bottoni; Pirelli Tower; Potentiality; QT8, Quartiere Triennale 8; Studio BBPR; The Rationalists; Torre Velsaca; Urban Representation
AB Buildings and urban construction are understood in this paper as representations of the city. Their meanings, however, are often invisible, positing unrealized urban visions, which are both imbedded in and which call up chains of associations expressing desires and fears. Narratives of what the city should be often contain the rejection of the existing urban situation. Understanding architectural objects as potential underscores their imaginary nature. Freud, for example, uses the Roman ruins in Civilization and its Discontents (1929) as a means to imagine stages of history. Yet, meanings of the new can also be covered over and layered. Milan is a city with fragments of the new, which once projected an ideal urban space into the future. The potentiality of Milan’s postwar urban objects is analyzed in relationship to narratives of the city and insertion is framed as an imagining into the city.
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