House aphorisms

SPLITTERWERK, Green Treefrog, St. Josef, Styria

Abstract

From Laugier to Palladio, from Piranesi to Aldo Rossi, to Peter Eisenman, to Franco Purini, the meaning of the 'dwelling' in which the history of the discipline of architecture traces perhaps its most archaic principle of necessity has traversed the different epochs and experiences, constantly asserting itself as an archetypal form, tending, even though in its often distant expressive tonalities, to present itself in the building in the guise of a principle of unity, of necessity, of absolute cohesion of its parts.