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    Shadrach Woods. Per una teoria urbana

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    Stem e Web sono i due fondamenti della riflessione teorica di Shadrach Woods (1923-1973) - architetto ed urbanista di origine nordamericana - sul fenomeno urbano. Questo saggio indaga il problema della formulazione di una teoria urbana in una visione strutturalista durante il secondo dopoguerra nell'Europa della ricostruzione e del cambiamento. Nella ricerca di un sistema costruito che si fondi su una solida teoria, lo sforzo eroico di Woods è quello di costruire un'"utopia del presente" - secondo la definizione degli architetti del Team X - che costituisca una possibile risposta alle criticità del Movimento Moderno. Attraverso una sezione tematica, viene presentata una selezione di progetti, alcuni noti e altri mai pubblicati, che dimostrano la strategia organizzativa del nostro autore per un'idea di crescita urbana e di ripensamento della scuola a livello universitari

    Un'eredità del Team X. Shadrach Woods e l'Architettura dell'Educazione tra Europa e USA (1962-1973

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    "Shadrach Woods and the Architecture of Education, 1962-1973" examines Shadrach Woods' writings and projects concerning education in the United States and Europe. Woods, who was never formally trained as an architect, was a partner of the firm Candilis, Josic, Woods from 1955 to 1968-9, and a core member of Team 10. In 1962, he began teaching architecture in the United States, first at Yale and then subsequently at Harvard, Rice and Cornell. During this period, he frequently lectured on the topic of education, where he outlined his own radical ideas for reforming education, which included the abolition of degrees and traditional academic curriculum for an approach that would integrate education with the urban community and would provide education for people of all ages. Many of his ideas were in part inspired by his encounter through Joachim Pfeufer with Robert Filiou and the French Fluxus movement, stemming in part from their collaboration on the "Non-School" of Villefranche (1966). Woods also designed projects for universities including the Free University in Berlin (1963-1973) and unbuilt schemes for Bochum University (1962), University College Dublin (1964), Thailand University in Bangkok (1971) and Brussels University (1971). In these designs he pursued organizational strategies such as the "stem" and the "web" which were closely related to ideas concerning growth and indeterminancy. This thesis, based on three years of archival research and extensive interviews of acquaintances and former students of Woods, analyzes both his published and unpublished texts, as well as built and unbuilt projects in the hope of elucidating a little studied dimension of postwar European and American architecture. It shows how his Woods' thinking and practice were related both to ideas of Team 10 and the art movement Fluxus, and analyzes, in particular, the influence that his teaching and thought had on American architectural education. In the last chapter, the dissertation also considers Woods' links to the Italian architectural scene, examining his relationship to Giancarlo De Carlo, the member of Team 10 to whom he felt most intellectually and personally connecte
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