An action towards Humanization. Doorn manifesto in a transnational perspective

Charitonidou, Marianna

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An action towards Humanization. Doorn manifesto in a transnational perspective

2019-04-11Conference object

dc.contributor.author	Charitonidou, Marianna
dc.date.accessioned	2019-04-29T14:11:59Z
dc.date.available	2019-04-29T14:11:59Z
dc.date.issued	2019-04-11
dc.description.abstract	In 1957, Ernesto Nathan Rogers, in “Continuità o Crisi?”, published in Casabella Continuità, considered history as a process, highlighting that history can be understood as being either in a condition of continuity or in a condition of crisis “accordingly as one wishes to emphasize either permanence or emergency”. A year earlier, Le Corbusier in a diagram he sent to the tenth CIAM at Dubrovnik, he called attention to a turning point within the circle of the CIAM, maintaining that after 1956 its dominant approach had been characterised by a reorientation of the interest towards what he called “action towards humanisation”. The paper examines whether this humanising process is part of a crisis or an evolution, on the one hand, and compares the directions that were taken regarding architecture’s humanisation project within a transnational network, on the other hand. An important instance regarding this reorientation of architecture’s epistemology was the First International Conference on Proportion in the Arts at the IX Triennale di Milano in 1951, where Le Corbusier presented his Modulor and Sigfried Giedion, Matila Ghyka, Pier Luigi Nervi, Andreas Speiser and Bruno Zevi intervened among others. The debates that took place during this conference epitomise the attraction of architecture’s dominant discourse to humanisation ideals. In a different context, the Doorn manifesto (1954), signed by the architects Peter Smithson, John Voelcker, Jaap Bakema, Aldo van Eyck and Daniel van Ginkel and the economist Hans Hovens-Greve and embraced by the younger generation, is interpreted as a climax of this generalised tendency to “humanise” architectural discourse and to overcome the rejection of the rigidness of the modernist ideals. This paper presents how the debates regarding the Doorn manifesto evolved in the pages of the following journals: The Architectural Review, Architectural Design, Casabella Continuità, Arquitectura, L’Architecture d’aujourd’hui and Forum. An aspect that is closely investigated is that of which epistemological tools coming from other disciplines - philosophy, sociology, anthropology and so on - are more dominant in each of these architectural journals. The fact that each of these journals is closely connected to a specific national context - U.K., Italy, Portugal, France and Holland respectively - offers the opportunity to discern to what disciplines architecture was attracted within these different contexts during its effort to “humanise” its discourse and conceptual tools.	pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citation	CHARITONIDOU, Marianna – An action towards Humanization. Doorn manifesto in a transnational perspective in REVISITING POST-CIAM GENERATION. Debates, proposals and intellectual framework. Porto: CEAA/ESAP-CESAP, 2019, p. 68-86	pt_PT
dc.identifier.isbn	978-972-8784-85-0
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/28359
dc.language.iso	eng	pt_PT
dc.peerreviewed	yes	pt_PT
dc.publisher	CEAA/ESAP-CESAP	pt_PT
dc.relation.publisherversion	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/28351	pt_PT
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	pt_PT
dc.subject	humanisation	pt_PT
dc.subject	transnational perspective	pt_PT
dc.subject	generation	pt_PT
dc.subject	continuità	pt_PT
dc.subject	Doorstep	pt_PT
dc.title	An action towards Humanization. Doorn manifesto in a transnational perspective	pt_PT
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oaire.citation.title	REVISITING POST-CIAM GENERATION. Debates, proposals and intellectual framework	pt_PT
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person.givenName	Marianna
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