Le Corbusier in Alessandro Fonti’s “historical project"

Abstract

[EN] An all-round intellectual, a scholar and professor in the history of Contemporary Architecture, Alessandro Fonti had been a teacher at the IUAV University of Venice since 1981 when, in 2003, he came to Alghero to found the new Faculty of Architecture. Developing the teachings of Manfredo Tafuri, of whom he had been a pupil, his research developed in breadth and depth together with his work as a lecturer, in which he delivered original and up-to-date lessons: Vienna and Otto Wagner, Barcelona and Gaudi, the new arts and modernisms, the artistic and architectural avant-garde, the English neo-avant-garde, American architecture, the Community of Adriano Olivetti, up to the present day. In Alghero, he directed the Workshop on the History of Metropolitan Architecture (LABSAN), Witch reseached the history of architecture with regard to the concep of metrópolis through the analysis of artefacts composing network systems, referable to the well-established categories of the history of Western architecture, as categories of objects referable to a common symbolic and functional matrix (meter polis= mother city). In the sense os Alberti’s QUID TUM and against any “historical perspective”, the workshop’s approach to research was based on the radical assumption of the principle of non-objectivity, which defines history Project to the built, a historical Project. But the main subjects of his reseach werw firts Paul Klee and then Le Corbusier. Expanding an idea by Tafuri, he imagined for both the existence os a “discreet” historical avant-garde.