TY - JOUR
T1 - Giancarlo De Carlo
T2 - Participation Depends
AU - Franchini, Alberto
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This is a first attempt to unpack the concept of participation as developed by one of its most passionate and authoritative advocates: Giancarlo De Carlo. The narrative hinges on the analysis of a number of texts produced by the architect, spanning his entire career, in which this topic takes a prominent position. This analysis reads also the experiences in which the architect adopted this instrument to understand the friction of his ambitious intentions within social and political contexts of Italian architectural practice, which changed profoundly from the post-war period to the 1980s. This paper will argue that it is precisely in this changing context that De Carlo refines and expands his idea of “participation” both conceptually and operationally. His experiences and their contexts are explored through unpublished archival materials, professional magazines, contemporaneous coverage and debate published in newspapers, and the scholarship realised on this theme to date.
AB - This is a first attempt to unpack the concept of participation as developed by one of its most passionate and authoritative advocates: Giancarlo De Carlo. The narrative hinges on the analysis of a number of texts produced by the architect, spanning his entire career, in which this topic takes a prominent position. This analysis reads also the experiences in which the architect adopted this instrument to understand the friction of his ambitious intentions within social and political contexts of Italian architectural practice, which changed profoundly from the post-war period to the 1980s. This paper will argue that it is precisely in this changing context that De Carlo refines and expands his idea of “participation” both conceptually and operationally. His experiences and their contexts are explored through unpublished archival materials, professional magazines, contemporaneous coverage and debate published in newspapers, and the scholarship realised on this theme to date.
KW - Giancarlo De Carlo
KW - housing
KW - participation
KW - Post-war architecture
KW - welfare state
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85169122186&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13264826.2023.2244610
DO - 10.1080/13264826.2023.2244610
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85169122186
SN - 1326-4826
VL - 27
SP - 161
EP - 187
JO - Architectural Theory Review
JF - Architectural Theory Review
IS - 2
ER -