ABSTRACT
Both the morphological approach and the La Tendenza movement, which we encountered in the last chapter, have been widely influential. Some of this influence came directly from the Bologna team, whose members became involved in other projects and taught at various universities. Particularly influential were Gianfranco Caniggia and Leonardo Benevolo, both of whom held a number of visiting professorships and thereby influenced many young designers, particularly in the Spanish speaking countries. Benevolo, for example, made frequent lecturing visits to the School of Architecture in Cuzco in Peru, so it is not surprising to see that the rehabilitation of the historic part of Cuzco results from a conservation strategy similar to that developed earlier in Bologna. 1 In Italy, this tradition has been carried forward through the design projects of Pier Luigi Cervellati, 2 Roberto Scannavini, Giancarlo Cataldi, Gian Luigi Maffei, Maria Grazia Corsini, Paolo Marretto, Giuseppe Strappa and others, who teach and practice in Bologna, Florence, Rome, Genoa and Sienna. Aldo Rossi, one of the most notable designers of the La Tendenza movement, departed from the Muratori school of urban morphology to develop his own body of theoretical and design work, which forms the focus of this chapter. We shall first discuss Rossi’s theses on urbanism, and then go on to explain how he used these ideas in the design of Centro Direzionale in Perugia, in an attempt to reinforce that city’s place-identity.
