Thesis title: Paul Marvin Rudolph. Teoria, metodo, costruzione
The research aspires to investigate the whole process related to the creative act in architecture, dwelling carefully on the stages prior to the definition of the form, where the decisive choices are guided by a method. In particular, the investigation identifies analogy as one of the permissible means during the creative process, as a tool capable of establishing a profound link of knowledge with what is taken as a model allowing one to move away from mere copying.
The starting point of the research is the figure of Paul Marvin Rudolph, an American architect active mainly in the 1960s, whose commitment was divided between teaching and the profession. Insight into the American architect and his key principles, the six determinants of architectural form, become the pretext for reflecting on the creative process of art in general and architecture in particular by tracing the steps that starting from theory, through a method, lead to construction.