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Venti domande a Pasquale Culotta : un’intervista immaginaria
2010
In Culotta’s teaching, and also in his profession, the ancient city has always represented the architectural text par excellence, one of the most important tools for the education of the architect, from which to continuously draw materials to transform in his own interpretation of the project. This should also be true for the historic center of Palermo, despite the many issues you have presented to us. Do the unresolved aspects of the ancient city prevent us from finding more or less spontaneous seeds of renewal, even in these conditions of great hardship, or does it still represent a source of wealth, difficult to read but legible, for the architectural designer? In the Design Laboratory w…
Comunicare l'esperienza del progetto
2010
Overall, the features dedicated to the publication of the creations of more or less young Sicilian designers are those that give the journal the most original and authentic character, promoting the activity of a generation of architects who over the years come to identify themselves in terms of similar design intentions and common objectives. The publication in «In Architettura» of many buildings in the Sicilian territory, even small houses, makes up the repertoire and contributes to the creation of a group, of a school. Together with the “Esercizi” column, the section called “Esperienza della progettazione” represents one of the main components of the journal which is entrusted with the mo…
Verso le città del mondo
2010
The “Città del mondo” significantly characterized the first series of «In Architecture», best representing the pioneering spirit of the journal and the architectural and cultural research of its authors. The comparison between local realities, generally small towns of the Sicilian hinterland and cities of different sizes and latitudes, already explicitly in the intentions of the method the reference to the universality of experience, making the intertwining of horizons that it allows civil progress and the growth of creative abilities.
«Nolite extollere in altum cornu vestrum». Ipotesi sul campanile della chiesa della Santissima Annunziata di Messina
2022
This article addresses a series of hypothesis concerning the octagonal space indicated in Guarino Guarini’s drawings of the Church of the Santissima Annunziata in Messina in his Architettura Civile. The façade of the church was completed around 1660 by Guarino Guarini and presented a «prodigiously high» bell tower at the corner, which collapsed during the 1693 earthquake and was later rebuilt shorter. The entire church was destroyed during the 1908 earthquake. Guarini’s drawings published in his treatise suggest that there must have been an octagonal chapel with columns at the corners under the tower; perhaps it was the baptistery of the church. Alternatively, the octagon can be identified …
Architettura religiosa nei castelli normanni di Sicilia e la fruizione e valorizzazione della chiesa dei Santi Filippo e Giacomo nel castello di Mare…
2014
Il saggio riporta i contenuti del mio abstract per il convegno “Fortificazione, memoria, paesaggio”, promosso in occasione dei Cinquant’anni di attività dell’Istituto Italiano dei Castelli, onlus, 1964-2014. Bologna 27-29 novembre 2014. Il convegno è stato organizzato dall’Istituto Italiano dei Castelli Onlus, dal Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà Alma Matere Studiorum – Università di Bologna. Il saggio indaga l’architettura religiosa presente nei castelli normanni di Sicilia, quale espressione della cultura del tempo, pienamente incarnata nelle specifiche esigenze dell’architettura militare. In particolare nel saggio è studiata la chiesa dei Santi Filippo e Giacomo, con i suoi restaur…
Architettura religiosa nei normanni di Sicilia e la fruizione e valorizzazione della chiesa dei Santi Filippo e Giacomo nel castello di Maredolce a P…
2014
Il poster riporta i contenuti del mio intervento al convegno “Fortificazione, memoria, paesaggio”, promosso in occasione dei Cinquant’anni di attività dell’Istituto Italiano dei Castelli, onlus, 1964-2014. Bologna 27-29 novembre 2014. Il convegno è stato organizzato dall’Istituto Italiano dei Castelli Onlus, dal Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà Alma Matere Studiorum – Università di Bologna. Il saggio indaga l’architettura religiosa presente nei castelli normanni di Sicilia, quale espressione della cultura del tempo, pienamente incarnata nelle specifiche esigenze dell’architettura militare. In particolare nel saggio è studiata la chiesa dei Santi Filippo e Giacomo, con i suoi restauri …
Pasquale Culotta e la tradizione del sapere/fare in Architettura
2010
«In Architettura. Il giornale della progettazione» was founded by Pasquale Culotta in Cefalù in 1979, together with a group of young architects. For several years the magazine has been a valuable tool for debate on the profession and teaching of architecture. With this publication, a sort of special issue, we intend to pay homage to Culotta. Retracing some of the most important stages of his activity, from the project for the new headquarters of the Faculty of Architecture in Palermo to the competition for the church of San Carlo Borromeo in Rome, through the memory and contribution of those who had the opportunity to work and study with him , the portrait of a professional is drawn, who ha…
Pasquale Culotta. Scritti e progetti
2010
A critical index of selected projects and biographical milestones of the sicilian architect Pasquale Culotta (Cefalù, July 30, 1939 - Lioni, November 9, 2006), graduated in architecture in 1965, ince 1986 he has been Full Professor of Architectural Design and Director of the Department of History and Project in Architecture of the Faculty of Architecture of Palermo since 1986 to 1989 and from 2001 to 2006. From 1989 to 1996 he was Dean of the Faculty of Architecture in Palermo and, since 2000, President of the Board of the Architecture Degree Course in Palermo. In 1987 he was called by the Milan Triennale for the formulation and scientific coordination of projects on " L’architettura della …
I servizi speciali di «In Architettura»
2010
In the great multi-voiced conversation on architecture, Culotta asks himself: «What is the city? - and he continues - The city is the place of representation of the social form» of the community. The text is a profound reflection on the social role of the architect, on his public responsibility, torn between the awareness of the need for the standard as a "reference material" in the technical space of production and the cultivation of the intimate part of the designer where creation takes place , as an artistic discipline, and where uncomfortable truths also emerge, such as the recognition of a real ability to intervene, understood as sensitivity to the complexity of the architectural quest…
I materiali di «In Architettura»
2010
This section reproduces a selection of texts from the vast apparatus of writings that formed the outline of the main rubrics. These are mainly informative articles or articles relating to specific events or artefacts which contributed to making the journalistic aspect effective, as an information tool on facts and characters of architecture, even if in some cases there is no lack of more in-depth compositions which can be assimilated to essay-type writings.