of its partial aspects, thereby losing sight of its broader significance. 24 PE:
It is in this context that this book can be seen as an analogous artifact itself—a written analogue to built and drawn artifacts. The written analogue, like the drawn one, is bound up with both place and memory. Yet unlike the city, the urban skeleton, the analogue is detached from specific place and specific time, and becomes instead an abstract locus existing in what is a purely typological or architectural time-place. In this way, by displacing type from history to make a connection between place and memory, and Sir your attempts through the erasure of history and transcendence of real places to reconcile the contradictions of modernist utopia—literally “no place”—and humanist reality— built “some place.” 25
Notes 24. Rossi, Aldo, and Peter Eisenman. The architecture of the city. Cambridge, MA: MIT press, 1982, p.27 25. Eisenman, Peter. ‘‘The Houses of Memory: The Texts of Analogue’’ in Aldo Rossi, The Architecture of the City, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1982, p.8
Ultimately, Rossi and Eisenman argued why the axiom “form follows function” was taken an oversimplified concern of form - type relationship in architecture by modernists. While Rossi was looking at the unrealized program of modernism through urban layer in terms of process instead of consequences, Eisenman focused the consequence of this problem which is the absence of the preindustrialization balance between aesthetics, function and also the human figure when the displacement of man resulted in obsession with his object by modernists.
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