Ernesto Nathan Rogers. La casa dell’uomo e l’architettura come fenomeno

  • Giovanni Marras Università IUAV di Venezia

Abstract

The critical and theoretical work of Ernesto Nathan Rogers can be considered as a sort of vast narrative, readable not only from a historical point of view but also in a strictly practical sense concerning the design instances of our time. Ernesto Nathan Rogers, together with Giuseppe Samonà, Ludovico Quaroni and a few others, can indeed be ascribed to the category of the fathers of that Italian tradition that presents at least two traits: on the one hand, the reference to the existing city, understood as a stratified and complex fact, and on the other, a constant analogical reference to the architecture of the past in the compositional process. The writings and drawings of Ernesto Nathan Rogers are, therefore, a precious corpus to reconnect the threads with this way of understanding architecture in relation to the other arts and the architect’s role in society. The writings on La casa dell’uomo and architecture as a phenomenon cast indeed an oblique light on themes and issues that our present, tuned to the paradigms of efficiency and economic convenience, gradually forgets and loses sight of.

Biografia autore

Giovanni Marras, Università IUAV di Venezia

Professore ordinario di Composizione Architettonica e Urbana presso l’Università IUAV di Venezia, già associato presso l’Università degli Studi di Trieste dal 2004 al 2014 e prima ricercatore allo IUAV dal 1994, dove consegue il Dottorato di ricerca in Composizione Architettonica e Urbana nel 1993.

Pubblicato
2024-03-15
Come citare
Marras, G. (2024). Ernesto Nathan Rogers. La casa dell’uomo e l’architettura come fenomeno. Philosophy Kitchen - Rivista Di Filosofia Contemporanea, (20), 139-153. https://doi.org/10.13135/2385-1945/10875
Sezione
sei - ERNESTO NATHAN ROGERS