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Il potere dell’architettura. L’ideologia di regime all’Esposizione Internazionale di Parigi 1937
2014
The political crackdown during the 20th Century finds in the International Events a special place for the hosting Countries to spread their ideologies to the visitors and to all the other Countries attending the event. National Pavilions become the subject of propaganda, and their architectural language became an important part of the collective identity’s reclaimed logic, even if it wasn’t always real. Paris International Exposition of 1937 is a paradigmatic case: it’s a mirror of that time and of the prewar period’s international tensions. Born under the auspices of peace, it finally results the most relevant expression of the relation between Power and Architecture.
Una scatola di luce, un gioco di sguardi
2015
Il padiglione progettato dall’architetto siciliano con la collaborazione dell’artista Erich Demetz è un vero manifesto dei principi fondativi del suo fare architettura. Attraverso la luce, il cubo diventa luogo di sosta e meditazione da una parte; e di contemplazione del paesaggio dall’altra The pavilion designed by the Sicilian architect with the collaboration of the artist Erich Demetz is an actual manifesto of the fundamental principles he uses in his architecture. By means of light, the cube becomes a place for rest and meditation on one hand, and for contemplation of the landscape on the other
Ocho notas sobre la Casa Farnsworth de Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
2020
Mies was in the top of his career when he built the Farnsworth House. The analysis of this work shows some characteristics of his architectural thought: the relationships between architecture and nature, the definition of the pavilion type, his concept of architectural space, the role of structure and limits, the idea free plan and the meaning of construction
An inhabited bridge between city and countryside
2015
With its propagation beyond the ancient walls in the countryside, the contemporary urban pattern of Piacenza flakes off, is frayed, making feeble the limit between rus and urbs; the continuous and porous old town gives way to the sprawl. In this project, the main idea is that, through moderate and small signs, defined by thematic pavilions (which are the general goal to achieve according to the Summer School), the effects can affect the urban scale, in a much wider field than the real area of intervention. So in this case the pavilion itself is thought as a bridge on the threshold between city and countryside. Moreover, the soil design, starting from the edges of the city, allows to fix the…