Due esempi di didattica sulla rappresentazione di relazioni che legano opere, architetti e correnti culturali

Inspired by Riccardo Migliari’s Theorem of the Architecture Model, limited to the representation encoded by the 12 Degrees of Iconicity by Abraham Moles, our research proposes the Complex Design as a privileged tool for comparison in the dynamics of the course of study. Using as an example the experience of the Modern Movement, in the interpretation of Mies van der Rohe (the Barcelona chair and the German Pavilion at the Universal Exposition in 1929) and of Gerrit Thomas Rietveld (the Red&Blue chair and the Schröder house), a pervasive, integrated and totalizing form of thought is told, summarized by the Bauhaus in the slogan “from the spoon to the city”: a unitary design system, the result of a strict functional analysis. In conclusion, then, the ‘Complex Design’ is entrusted with the task of integrating the analysis of the artifact with the description of the ideas and underlying processes, proceeding to deal with the reading of the investigated theme in three levels of depth. The first, the more general one, researches the relationships between the Modern Movement and the entire cultural production of the 20th century. The second one, intermediate, deals with the relationships between the two architects, the chosen works and the respective currents of thought. The third and final one analyzes, following the indications of the Bauhaus, that integrated and unitary design system applicable to both design and architecture.