Tendenza

{{Short description|Architectural movement}} [[File:Mojiko Hotel.jpg|thumb|Mojiko Hotel by Aldo Rossi]] '''La Tendenza''' (translated as a „''trend''") was a movement of Italian neo-rationalism young architects in 1960s to 1970s.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bottazzi |first=Roberto |date=2012-07-24 |title=La Tendenza: Italian Architecture on show |url=https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/exhibitions/la-tendenza-italian-architecture-on-show |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=The Architectural Review |language=en}}</ref> It was made of Carlo Aymonino, Giorgio Grassi or Aldo Rossi. It arose in reaction to the burgeoning Modernism and Functionalism of pre and post-war Italy.<ref name="StudioInt2012">{{cite web |title=La Tendenza: Italian Architecture 1965–1985 |url=https://www.studiointernational.com/la-tendenza-italian-architecture-1965-1985 |website=www.studiointernational.com |access-date=16 June 2025 |language=en}}</ref> The architects began to explore the question of memory and the glory of the Italian past, integrating their motifs in their works as physical presence and poetic content.<ref name="Jones">{{Cite book |last1=Jones |first1=Peter |title=Modern Architecture Through Case Studies 1945 to 1990 |last2=Canniffe |first2=Eamonn |publisher=Elsevier |year=2007 |isbn=9780750663748 |location=Boston |pages=189}}</ref> They endeavored to expose the weaknesses of modernism, such as their critique of the modernist urbanism. Opposed to that, they recognized the social and cultural significance of the established urban fabric, the importance of historical forms and elements as a resource.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tendenza |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/tendenza |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=Encyclopedia.com}}</ref>

The work of architectural historian Manfredo Tafuri influenced the movement, and the University Iuav of Venice emerged as a center of the Tendenza after Tafuri became chair of Architecture History in 1968.<ref name="Emerging Concepts">{{cite book |last1=Broadbent |first1=Geoffrey |title=Emerging Concepts in Urban Space Design |publisher=Van Nostrand Reinhold (International) |year=1990 |isbn=9780747600251 |location=London}}</ref>{{rp|157 et seq.}} A '''Tendenza''' exhibition was organized for the 1973 Milan Triennale.<ref name="Emerging Concepts" />{{rp|178–183}}

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