The editing and complete translation (the first in Italian) of the Entwurff einer Historischen Architectur. Project for a History of Architechture (Vienna, 1721) by Bernhard Fischer von Erlach has the aim of filling a serious gap in Italian historiography, since the Entwurff undoubtedly represents a crucial work to understand the compositional dimension of modern architectural design intended as the relationship between mimesis and inventio. The 'historical' dimension, that is the heterogeneous set of materials, is arranged and re-woven by a project whose guidelines converge at the central point of an imaginative, 'fantastic' force - or force of poiesis - able to overcome the simple, linear relationship between 'nature' and 'artifice', thus representing the problem of always rethinking the architectural expressive code.
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Book Title
Progetto di un’architettura istorica. Entwurff einer Historischen Architectur
Editors
Gundula Rakowitz
Authors
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
322
Publication Year
2016
Copyright Information
© 2016 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6655-809-5
ISBN Print
978-88-6655-808-8
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6655-809-5
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-336-7
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919