Alternate Title
Lecture: Marco Frascari (event series)
Related people/organizations
University of Pennsylvania (subject)
Italo Calvino (subject)
John Summerson (subject)
Marco Frascari (speaker)
Giuseppe Zambonini (speaker)
George Ranalli (speaker)
Date
1977
Description
Marco Frascari discusses Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino); defines types and models, architectural text. Frascari column dream. Scale. Architectural elements blown up to building proportion: column as building; Gothic cathedral; skyscraper. Rhetorical method fuels design. Question and answer with Open Atelier of Design (OAD) students, Giuseppe Zambonini, and George Ranalli.
Identifier
KA0130_OA_01
Use Restrictions
Digitization of audiotapes funded by a grant obtained by Robert Kirkbride from Parsons' School of Constructed Environment.
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