Pier Vittorio Aureli - AA PhD Open Seminar Series - Part 6

Lecture date: 2012-11-27 Robert Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, Aldo Rossi’s Architecture of the City A series of six lunchtime seminars delivered by Pier Vittorio Aureli hosted by the AA PhD Programme. Open to all. Ethos is a Greek word that can be roughly translated as ’character’. Ethos addresses the ethical principles and guiding beliefs of a given society. It is possible to argue that every architectural theory – implicitly or explicitly – addresses the ethos of the historica