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Artifacts Of Rossosville

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Rossi stressed that the urban is artifacts, which is a kind of artificial environment made by human. The key issue, therefore, is to emphasize its artificial character, which must establish a basic concept of human culture in urban culture. The city is not only an isolated artifact, he is a collective artifact. The collective nature of the city brings it into the cultural zone. He believes that the city reflects the development of human rationality. Therefore, the base point of Rossi 's thought is to look at the city from the view of architecture or by means of construction. That is, the mutual penetration of cities and buildings. Buildings involve the human spirit when constructing. ” Thus, the concept that one person has of an urban artifact will always differ from that of someone who ‘lives’ that same artifact. These considerations, however, can delimit our task; it is possible that our task consists principally in defining an urban artifact from the standpoint of its manufacture: in other works, to define and classify a street, a city, a street in a city; then the location of this street, its function, its architecture; then the street systems possible in the city and many other things.” Artifacts are not limited to objective products, but also related to the city, such as history, geography, structure and other relevant facts. In short, architecture has the meaning beyond the objective materials, but unifies the spirit of collective. The collective nature of this

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