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Le grafie e le visioni in Oltremare di Umberto Di Segni
2022
Between the end of 1993 and the beginning of 1994, the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Bologna held an extraordinary exhibition on Italian architecture in the overseas territories, accompanied by a catalogue which, through period drawings and photos, gave an insight into a very interesting moment in the history of Italian architecture. The “Quarta Sponda”, at that time thought of as the nineteenth region of the Homeland, was to be a true extension of Italy that would be inhabited, according to a well-defined colonisation programme, by one hundred thousand colonists.The role of architecture was central to the process of founding new agglomerations and representative buildings envisaged by the Fas…
Redrawing as key to the spatial thought of Hana Kučerová Zaveská
2017
The paper analyzes two works of Hana Kučerová Zaveská, Czech architect and designer who has made an important contribution to the Modern Movement, dealing with social housing and social services and placing its emphasis on improving the status of women. His brief but intense activity is developed in Czechoslovakia in the period between the wars and is influenced by the architecture and art movements that occurred in the country during the twenties and thirties. In the footsteps of Marcel Breuer and Mies van der Rohe, she creates furniture where functionality is combined with the elegance and in which we recognize the signature style of the designer, her innovative use of materials and produ…
Rappresentazioni di un trattato incompiuto. Un progetto di Francesco Muttoni per L'Architettura di Andrea Palladio vicentino... Representation of an …
2018
Il saggio riguarda l'interpretazione grafica di un progetto di Francesco Muttoni elaborato per il libro X del suo trattato L’Architettura di Andrea Palladio vicentino..., in particolare quello per il Palazzo Reale per Federico IV di Danimarca. Il libro X non fu mai pubblicato e l’album dei disegni delle tavole a corredo del Libro è custodito a Washington presso la Biblioteca del Congresso. Lo studio riguarda la ricostruzione del progetto di Muttoni evidenziando le incongruenze fra le rappresentazioni delle tavole e tentando, al contempo, di costruirne le probabili logiche formali. The essay concerns the ‘representation’ of a project by Francesco Muttoni elaborated for the book X of his trea…
Three Projects for Council Houses by Lina Bo Bardi: from Virtual Reconstruction to Graphical Analysis
2018
The paper deals with the studies conducted in 1951 in Brazil by Lina Bo Bardi on the issue of council houses. The three examples were never realised but do help to describe the intention of the architect to promote a “rational” way of living, from a small house to an urban complex. The first project concerns a small house with a close relationship between architecture and nature. The second project concerns three housing units that embody the idea of the housing cell as a constituent piece of a community. The housing typologies to which the architect has referred are: the indigenous maloca, a community house used by the Amazon natives; the Italian peasant house with its living room; and the…
Disegnare il mutevole. Il concorso per il grattacielo Peugeot di Maurizio Sacripanti
2020
Maurizio Sacripanti, one of the most significant figures in Italian architecture in the second half of the twentieth century, has experimented with his own architectural language making use of the influences of literature and contemporary art. In the Roman architect, in fact, different artistic experiences coexist, programmed art, megastructure and structuralism, optical-art, visionary architecture and kinetic art, these perhaps the most interesting ones. Other references can be found in the previous experiences of De Stijl and Futurism. The project for the competition for the Peugeot skyscraper in Buenos Aires seems to contain, in his conception and drawings, continuous references to all t…
U.I.R.D.A. – Unbuilt Italian Rationalism Digital Archive
2018
For twenty years, the architecture of Italian rationalism through the digital modelling has been investigated. Very often, the production of a model and the consequent representation of tridimensional views, in many case studies, as outcome of the research on architecture have been considered. Actually, the digital model, intended as a critical tool, has to be conceived as a ‘starting point' for graphic analysis of architecture and not as the outcome. Indeed, it is associated to other graphics, sometimes not ‘deducted' from the model, useful for the understanding/translation of architecture. The construction of the model is not the construction of a simple image, operation, which is often c…
Drawing and Project at the VChUTEMAS. Graphic Interpretations
2019
The article deals with the graphic study of the project for the Kominern Palace designed in 1929 by Lidija Komarova, one of the students of the Russian Laboratories known by the acronym VChUTEMAS, founded in 1920 in Moscow. Strongly characterized by the revolutionary atmosphere that was delineating the artistic progress based on the synthesis of all the plastic arts, the Russian Laboratories attributed to the architecture a position of the first order, a perfect association between the scientific possibility and the art technique. The redrawing of this project allows to deepen the compositional principles of the new architectural formation of the Eastern European avant-garde, providing digi…
Egle Renata Trincanato. Unbuilt
2016
In the spring of 1947, the ‘Venetian’ architect took part in the competition, organized by the Municipality of Venice, for a series of houses to be built in the north and south estuary of the Venetian lagoon, obtaining the first and second prize, both ex aequo, with projects for residences proposals in Burano and Pellestrina. In these two unbuilt works, we can trace some important methodological aspects about the approach to the project by the architect who will make Venice the city subject of her later studies.
La costruzione in fieri di un archivio privato
2022
A few years ago, from an idea born in 2015 on the occasion of a specific study on the professional activity of women architects in Palermo, Dacia and Sabina Di Cristina, daughters of the architect and university professor Luciana Natoli, born in 1936 and passed away too early, in 1978, at the age of 42, started to ‘build’ their mother’s archive. Natoli’s young age might suggest a modest size of the archive; in fact, the opposite is absolutely the case. It was in fact the sheer quantity of rolls, files, heliographic copies, drawings on tracing paper and sketch paper, photographs, correspondence, books and magazines that for so many years prevented her daughters from ordering this great mass …
Il Caffè Arabo alla IV Esposizione Nazionale di Palermo: dai disegni di Ernesto Basile alla ricostruzione virtuale
2016
A partire dalla rilettura di disegni originali di progetto e riproduzioni grafiche d’epoca, il contributo indaga il caffè arabo progettato da Ernesto Basile per la IV Esposizione Nazionale di Palermo. Il presente studio rientra nel filone delle ricostruzioni virtuali di architetture non più esistenti o solo disegnate e si configura quale tassello mancante di un lavoro più ampio e già edito riguardante la maggior parte del complesso espositivo. La ricostruzione virtuale si connota quale strumento di indagine e visualizzazione di un’architettura effimera, in una parte di città perduta. This text studies the project for the Caffé Arabo designed by Ernesto Basile for the IV Esposizione Nazional…