Abstract
This paper's purpose is to analyze the idea of “type“ as ideologies in the movement “Tendenza” on the two prominent theoretician of Tendenza movement, Aldo Rossi (1931-1997) and Giorgio Grassi . Rossi was regarded as the leader of the movement and Grassi was important theoretical position on their “Rationalism”. Analyzing is deeded through documents in 1959-74 of Grassi and Rossi on Modernism architectures.
In Section 1, through the documents of Giorgio Grassi, it was shown that, in his view of Rationalism, geometry was associated as type. For example, Grassi emphasized the importance of Ludwig Hilberseimar, Le Corbisier, and Peter Behrens as architect in Rationalism, so that his idea of type was associated with tradition.
In Section 2, the idea of type is analyzed in the view of connectons between Tendenza and ideogy. the Tendenza Movement has been blamed as “Fascist Architecture”, but the architects were strongly influenced by socialism and communism.
In Section 3, through the documents of Aldo Rossi, it was shown that, in his view of Socialism, material was associated as type. For example, Rossi blamed the projects of superstructures and town plannings like Kenzo Tange, Metabolist and movement and Archigram as they ignored technological reality, Rossi noted that architectures cannot escape from a particular political stance and was interested in material in reality and technology of mass production.
As the result, it was shown that, when the movement emerged in 1960-70s, idea of type was associated with the will to express image of architecture as their own ideologies. For the conclusion, while Grassi's collectivist principle led the idea of type as a graph and geometry, Rossi ‘s idea of types was strongly associated to production technology. For conclusion, Grassi discussed the Form of type, Rossi considered the Matter of type.
