Tendenza (Italian, trend) was an Italian architectural group of neo-rationalist style that emerged in the 1970s, in parallel to the US group Five Architects. It was composed mainly of Aldo Rossi, Giorgio Grassi, Massimo Scolari, Ezio Bonfanti and Carlo Aymonino.
In opposition to the pop and high-tech architecture, the Tendenza group intended to continue the rationalist tradition of Italian architecture prior to World War II. Ideologically, they drew on the functionalist theory of Aldo Rossi, set out in The Architecture of the City (1966), where he defended the return to classicist tradition and architectural design based on logical principles. Thus, for the members of the group, architecture must direct the urban growth of cities, disconnected from any other discipline in a specific autonomy that debuts the architecture of extraarchitectural dependencies. In this new relationship of architecture with the city the collective uses of urban morphology will define the new architectural typologies to follow.
Progress is not newness and change, or at least does not presuppose them necessarily; progress is, in any case, clarification, step from the complicated to the simple. In architecture it means simplicity, unity, symmetry and fair proportions, typological clarity, homogeneity between plant and elevation, and denial of disorder, although this is justified as a symbolic reproduction of the crisis of a culture. Massimo Scolari Bibliography
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