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LuigiMoretti,Casa“IlGirasole,”1947–50

OneofthefirstcriticalarticlestoappearinEnglishonLuigiMoretti’s

Casa“IlGirasole”waswrittenbyPeterReynerBanhamin1953.Banham’s

article,publishedintheFebruaryissueofArchitecturalReview,labeled

Casa“IlGirasole”thedefiningmonumentof“Romaneclecticism,”which

wasaneclecticismthatBanhamconsideredoperatedwithintheconfines

ofthevestigesofmodernism.Ifthelabeleclecticismhasdifferentcon-

notationstoday,in1953itimpliedthatMoretti’sworkcouldbeseenasa

haphazardcollectionofclassicaltropesandarchitecturalstrategieslack-

inganysingleorganizingprincipleotherthanhavingbeenassembledby

Morettiinasinglebuilding.InthissenseBanham’sargumentwaspro-

phetic,thoughhisuseofthetermeclecticism,itwillbearguedhere,was

flawed.Itisinterestingtonotethatasearlyas1953,Banhamproposed

thatmodernarchitecturehadalreadybecomeastyle,andthushewasable

tociteMorettiasdeviatingfromitsformalandsupposedsocialimpera-

tives.Moretti’sCasa“IlGirasole”wouldsubsequentlyearnanimportant

citationinRobertVenturi’s1966bookComplexityandContradictionin

Architecture,acitationthatwouldbecomephysicallymanifestinVenturi’s

ownVannaVenturiHouse(seechapter5).Oneimportantdistinction

betweenBanham’sconclusionandapossiblepresentreadingisthatpriorto

1968,andtherethinkingoftheideaofatextproposedbyJacquesDerrida’s

OfGrammatology,itwasnotpossibletoproposeatextualreadingofwhat

appearedtoBanhamtobemereeclecticism.Post-structuralismoffered

methodsofanalysisandcompositionasanewlensthroughwhichtounder-

standcomplexphenomena;incertaincases,thesephenomenadefyaclear

readingaltogether,andinsteadrepresentaconditionofwhatcanbenow

calledundecidability.

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