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RESTRICTIVE CITY
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The architectural object of this analysis is the urban design of Le Corbusier, this essay intends to analyse Ville Contemporaine through Eisenman’s fictions, which are the following: Representation, Reason, History, and ultimately through the definition of Architecture as language. The title of the following essay is ‘Restrictive city’. A restricted city is an ideal city in which order is derived from the fiction of reason, it is a city that has renounced its history, and has alluded to timelessness. The restrictive city views every component- including mankind, as an object that needs to be placed within its context. With a focus on the exploration of the notion of restrictive spatial designs within the city, this paper aims to discuss the post-modernist ideology of architecture as a linguistic construct. Furthermore, it will discuss Eisenman’s philosophical notion of the classical in relation to what was designed to be its antonym.
