I Viaggi di Bernard Rudofsky e la collezione di immagini

Bernard Rudofsky (1905-1988) had founded his life on the practice of travelling. It was from his journeys that he developed his abiding interest in vernacular architecture, enshrined in the famous text Architecture without Architects (1964). The book, a worldwide best-seller, was the catalogue of the eponymous exhibition of the same name held in 1964 at the MoMA in New York, then rearranged in no fewer than 80 other venues during the next 11 years. His journeys moulded his ideas, recounted in the articles, in the various books and in further exhibitions, and evolved in his design work, mainly houses. The Journey is for Rudofsky the practice of travelling. It is refined over time and is anchored to the experience of immersion in the places and to the collection of images, an immense visual inventory from which the architect seems to draw precise and consistent topics, then practiced in the design projects through a work of de-contextualization and association of images.