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La Tendenza (translated as a „''trend''") was a movement of Italian neo-rationalism young architects in 1960s to 1970s. It was made of
Carlo Aymonino Carlo Aymonino (18 July 1926 – 3 July 2010) was an Italian architect and urban planner best known for the Monte Amiata housing complex in Milan. Early life Born in Rome, he studied at the University of Rome, obtaining his degree in 1950. In ...
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Giorgio Grassi Giorgio Grassi (born 27 October 1935) is one of Italy's most important modern architects, and part of the so-called Italian rationalist school, also known as ''La Tendenza'', associated most famously with Carlo Aymonino and Aldo Rossi that emerg ...
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Aldo Rossi Aldo Rossi (3 May 1931 – 4 September 1997) was an Italian architect and designer who achieved international recognition in four distinct areas: architectural theory, drawing and design and also product design. He was one of the leading propone ...
. It arose in reaction to the burgeoning
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and Functionalism of pre and post-war
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. The architects began to explore the question of memory and the glory of the Italian past, integrating their motifs in their works as physical presence and poetic content. They endeavored to expose the weaknesses of modernism, such as their critique of the modernist
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. Opposed to that, they recognized the social and cultural significance of the established urban fabric, the importance of historical forms and elements as a resource. The work of architectural historian
Manfredo Tafuri Manfredo Tafuri (Rome, 4 November 1935 – Venice, 23 February 1994) was an Italian Marxist architect, historian, theoretician, critic and academic. He was described by one commentator as the world's most important architectural historian of th ...
influenced the movement, and the
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emerged as a center of the Tendenza after Tafuri became chair of Architecture History in 1968. A Tendenza exhibition was organized for the 1973 Milan Triennale.


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Rationalism Postmodern architecture in Italy Italian architects {{art-movement-stub