Vesper No. 8 | Vesper | Spring-Summer 2023
Jacques
Lucan
Lessons
from Venice
Keywords
Urban form, open form, project, modernity
In the 20th
century, how did writers, historians and architects look at the shape of the
city of Venice, how did they interpret it? And if we consider that Venice
should not be regarded as a world to be preserved ‘in vitro’, what
lessons does the city’s knowledge bring for possible futures?
From Marcel
Proust or Jean-Paul Sartre to Le Corbusier, from Saverio Muratori to Giuseppe
Mazzariol, without forgetting Vittorio Gregotti or Manfredo Tafuri, the urban
form of historic Venice can be seen as a capillary, homogeneous and neutral
network, entropic, with the organic growth of an open form. Is the idea of an
open form a way of opposing the reality of a closed form, frozen in
Venetianity? It gives a possibility to a new modernity that, however, goes off
the beaten path of the ‘modern’.
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