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The evolution of the digital curve: from shipbuilding spline to the diffusion of NURBS, subdivision surface and t-splines as tools for architectural …
2020
In this article, we will follow the history of splines, digital methods that have characterized the architectural design process since the last decade of the twentieth century. We will describe their evolutions since the beginning as analogical tools for boat construction in the eighteenth century, to its passage to digital within the automotive industry. Then the relationship with the aerospace industry, and the evolution which from digital animation, have led nurbs, subdivision surfaces and t-splines to become everyday computational tools within architecture workflow. Recent developments on t-splines, following their acquisition by Autodesk, will lead us to a reflection on the relationshi…
Introduzione
2015
Il testo introduce alcuni esiti di un'attività di studio coordinata da Andrea Sciascia e dal gruppo di lavoro composto da Gaetano Cuccia, Emanuele Palazzotto, Adriana Sarro e Luciana Macaluso nell'ambito del Programma di Ricerca dal titolo "L'architettura delle chiese in Sicilia dopo il Concilio Vaticano II (FFR 2012). Dalle riflessioni emerse sulle questioni tematiche iniziali, il gruppo di lavoro ha progressivamente maturato l’idea, di comprendere, nel campo di azione della ricerca, le influenze e le contaminazioni riscontrabili fra le architetture cultuali dell’area del Mediterraneo, estendendo il lavoro di ricerca ad altri studiosi (Valentina Acierno, Mauro Bertagnin, Tania Culotta, Giu…
Casa e paesaggio: gli sguardi di Culotta e Leone
2015
Proponiamo una nuova lettura di uno dei momenti più alti dell’architettura contemporanea in Sicilia attraverso la presentazione del ricco contributo offerto da Pasquale Culotta e Giuseppe Leone, scegliendo, tra i tanti, il tema forse più caro alla loro maniera di lavorare: l’abitare in relazione ai luoghi We propose a fresh reading of one of the paramount moments of contemporary architecture in Sicily through the presentation of the rich contribution offered by Pasquale Culotta and Giuseppe Leone, selecting from many themes the one that they perhaps cherished most in their work: living in association with the location
Il progetto del Museo del Mare a Palermo tra storia, ordine e regole dell’architettura
2020
The article deals with the theme of contemporary re-construction of a part of an ancient building of great architectural significance: the Arsenal of Palermo. The part of the building facing the sea and of most architectural value has remained intact; instead, it was destroyed the part where they built the ships. In addition to basic themes, it will also discuss the issue of rules in architecture: the theme of restoration as architectural project; the theme of the architectural design in the ancient city and in the Mediterranean cities. The project is characterized by the order and quality of light, and has a special role in Palermo for the substantial rejection of the Plan to modern archit…
Rural-urban intersections
2016
I dialoghi con i docenti di alcune università europee - Marcella Aprile, Giuseppe Barbera, Carmelo Dazzi, Vittorio Gregotti, Karin Helms, João Nunes, José Laborda Yneva, Jörg Schröder, Martin Prominski - s’intrecciano in una discussione a più voci che tratteggia un quadro sull’abitare contemporaneo fra spazi urbani e rurali. Con un saggio di Andrea Sciascia. Dialogues with professors from various European universities - Marcella Aprile, Giuseppe Barbera, Carmelo Dazzi, Vittorio Gregotti, Karin Helms, João Nunes, José Laborda Yneva, Jörg Schröder, Martin Prominski - are interwoven to create an image of contemporary living between urban and rural spaces. With an essay by Andrea Sciascia.
Modern Architecture goes on Holiday, The Lidi di Mortelle in Sicily, a small linear city by the sea
2008
Sea resorts bring to the extreme the modern architecture restoration themes, due to the difficulty of preserving buildings which were never meant to last, and are particularly exposed both to harsh climatic conditions and to changes in social habits. The interest of this study lies in the possible demonstration that this holiday architecture typology, so fragile and recent, often regarded as secondary if compared to the ‘serious’ building types, should be the object of research and preservation as a privileged field of experimentalism for modern architecture.
FLUX CITY HOUSE: re-immaginare il futuro di Manhattan. La centralità del programma nel progetto di New York 2030-2050-2100
2022
In the future, architecture and the city will no longer be a place, but a condition of co-transformative and shared sustainability. In the era of increasing global warming, ecological and energy transition, architecture creates a new balance through the project, at the intertwining of multiple of many fields of knowledge. Sustainability will lead to new perspectives of urban regeneration, as social perspective and a new way of living, consuming and producing, in a broad reverberation of innovations on the ethical and political level of the relationship with societies. Within this frame, the project Flux-city House, winner of the first prize at the “SUAE Asia Winter School Campus: SoHo rezon…
Expériences temporaires en Architecture. La ville du Marché Ballarò
2020
The rediscovery of the cultural value of the project and of the new aesthetic of temporality are two issues among these emerging in the city in times of crisis in Italy which are measured through the process of active involvement of inhabitants, associations and actors institutional. The research proposed concrete explorations of the transformation of the street into a public space through an interdisciplinary prospective of participatory practices and interlocutions. It is in this context that research is interested in the cultural and material value of urban space as a projection of social relations towards a new aesthetic of temporality which aims to reverse the gaze of waiting spaces th…
The Maifinito phenomenon. Confession, Forgiveness, and Healing: “condoni” and“sanatoria”, Isabella Fera in Conversation with Arno Brandlhuber
2016
The book Maifinito featured essays, projects, and a selection of “international artistic, social and architectural experiences,” all of which centered around the “fenomeno del maifinito,”1 the maifinito phenomenon—in other words, the enormous number of unfinished buildings in southern Italy, and especially on the island of Sicily. Many of these buildings, so-called maifiniti, have been constructed entirely outside the legislative framework—a phenomenon that perfectly encapsulates the relationship in Italy between construction, the public vs. private realm, the state, and legislation. In December 2015, Arno Brandlhuber met Isabella Fera in Palermo for a wide-ranging discussion.
È un paesaggio?
2015
Il paesaggio è concreto o astratto? È materiale o immateriale? Si può toccare o si può solo vedere… o forse si può solo pensare o immaginare? È solo una esperienza estetica? È utile? È naturale o è anche artificiale? È una costruzione culturale? Come se ne fa l’esperienza… ognuno per sé o collettivamente… standosene a casa, in un museo, o all’interno del paesaggio stesso? Chi vede il paesaggio e chi no? Il contadino o lo scienziato? O nessuno dei due?... A partire da queste domande vengono confrontati frammenti di teorie e riflessioni di alcuni speciali studiosi, sulle quali posizioni trasversali poter impostare un discorso attuale sul riconoscimento e la trasformazione del paesaggio: Luciu…