Ugliness in architecture in the Australian, American, British and Italian milieus: Subtopia between the 1950s and the 1970s
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2022-06
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The article examines the reorientations of the appreciation of ugliness within different national contexts in a comparative and relational frame, juxtaposing the Australian, American, British and Italian milieus. It also explores the ways in which the transformation of the urban fabric and the effect of suburbanization were perceived in the aforementioned national contexts. Special attention is paid to the production and dissemination of how the city’s uglification was conceptualized between the 1950s and 1970s. Pivotal for the issues that this article addresses are Ian Nairn’s Outrage: On the Disfigurement of Town and Countryside, Robin Boyd’s The Australian Ugliness, Donald Gazzard’s Australian Outrage: The Decay of a Visual Environment, and the way the phenomenon of urban expansion is treated in these books in comparison with other books from the four national contexts under study, such as Ludovico Quaroni’s La torre di Babele and Reyner Banham’s The New Brutalism: Ethic or Aesthetic?. Particular emphasis is placed on Boyd’s articles in The Architectural Review between 1951 and 1970. At the core of the article is the analysis of the debates around ugliness between the 1950s and 1970s within the British, Italian, American and Australian contexts.
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9 (1)
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20
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Subtopia; Featurism; Austerica; Arboraphobia; Outrage; ugliness; Australia; Italy; United States of America; UK; The Architectural Review; New Brutalism; Tendenza; Neorealism; Aldo Rossi; Ludovico Quaroni; Robin Boyd; Reyner Banham; Ian Nairn; Gordon Cullen; Townscape movement; Denise Scott Brown; Robert Venturi; Ernesto Nathan Rogers
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09643 - Avermaete, Tom / Avermaete, Tom
02655 - Netzwerk Stadt u. Landschaft ARCH u BAUG / Network City and Landscape ARCH and BAUG