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Proportions in Salvatore Caronia Roberti Between Theory and Practice
2022
AbstractIn 1949 Salvatore Caronia Roberti published the volume Introduzione allo studio della composizione architettonica. It is a compendium of his own studies and research came together in his architecture, testifying to the close interweaving of theory and practice. Caronia Roberti was a student of Ernesto Basile, one of the leading exponents of Art Nouveau, a style in which proportions played a marginal place. He later broke away from the Master’s school to attempt a new path in which geometry and proportion constitute the core of his theoretical research. This study aims to highlights the organic nature of Caronia Roberti’s thought, between architectural history and representation, by …
Masonry Sail Vaults in Maltese Architecture: Geometrical Analysis for the Study of Building Processes
2023
This research concerns the introduction and dissemination of masonry sail vaults in Malta between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. A digital survey is produced to capture a reality-based 3D model, undertake analysis, and compare case studies with the aim of interpreting the sail vaults' construction systems.
Projective Architecture
2009
Sbacchi indaga su quale sia stata la reale influenza della nozione di "proiezione" nell'ambito della progettazione architettonica a partire da Guarini. Per fare ciò vengono presi in considerazione i concetti di luce e ombra così come quelli di linea astratta, piano, sezione, geometria proiettiva e prospettiva. Michele Sbacchi investigates the real influence of the notion of projection on architectural design before and during the age of Guarini. He takes into consideration concepts such as light and shadow, abstract line, plane, section, projective geometry and perspective. To do this he looks at the ideas of Gregorius Saint Vincent, Alberti, Guarini, Desargues and de l’Orme, among others.
Arquitectura para dos carismas distintos en el Bajo Aragón turolense en el Seiscientos : el convento carmelita de Alcañiz y el descalzo del Desierto …
2019
En el Bajo Aragón turolense se asentaron un gran número de órdenes religiosas en las primeras décadas del Seiscientos, y entre ellas, los carmelitas, que llegaron a Alcañiz en 1602; o los descalzos, que se establecieron en el convento del desierto de Calanda en la década de los ochenta de ese siglo. Sin embargo, las diferencias entre ambos establecimientos son evidentes, ya que fueron concebidos tanto espiritual como arquitectónicamente diferentes uno de otro debido a las funciones que debían cumplir. El caso alcañizano es una de las muestras más destacadas de la arquitectura bajoaragonesa del barroco, mientras que el calandino es un buen ejemplo de desierto carmelita, cuyas trazas probable…
Henri Lefebvre’s lessons from the Bauhaus
2021
Throughout his writings, Henri Lefebvre made sporadic observations on the German art, design, and architecture school Bauhaus. His commentary on the Bauhaus can be read in light of his wider criticism of Modernist architecture and its political project. Despite its revolutionary aspirations, the Bauhaus provided ‘the architectural requirements of state capitalism’. This article argues that looking at Lefebvre’s ambiguous reading of the Bauhaus unveils the more complex trajectory of his thinking on Modernist utopian impulses to change society through design. Alongside his criticism of the Bauhaus as tailor made for what Lefebvre calls the neocapitalist state, his work also includes more posi…
La arquitectura de la portada y retablos de San Miguel Arcángel de Burjassot. Reflejo de los modelos figurativos de A. Pozzo
2005
Friar-architects carried out important projects in the Valencia area. These monks, who combined architectural with spiritual labors, accomplished works in which they knew how to combine tradition with new architectural tendencies. The church of St. Michael Archangel of Burjassot by Friar Francisco de Santa Bárbara, provides the chance to study this constructive phenomenon in relation to its doorway and twin altarpieces at the crossing. Without doubt, these structures demonstrate the direct influence of the Jesuit Andrea Pozzo's treatise <i>Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum</i> (1693-1700), which had a broad repercussion in the Valencia region.<br><br>La actividad…
A heterogeneous and reconfigurable machine-vision system
1995
This paper describes a new machine-vision system, a HERMIA heterogeneous and reconfigurable machine for image analysis. The architecture topology of the HERMIA machine is reconfigurable; moreover, the integration of its special modules allows a search for optimal strategies to solve vision problems. The general architecture and the hardware implementation are described. The software environment of the HERMIA machine provides a full iconic interface and a pictorial language oriented to vision in multiprocessor architectures. The preliminary system evaluation and applications are shown. © 1995 Springer-Verlag.
A Posture Sequence Learning System for an Anthropomorphic Robotic Hand
2003
The paper presents a cognitive architecture for posture learning of an anthropomorphic robotic hand. Our approach is aimed to allow the robotic system to perform complex perceptual operations, to interact with an human user and to integrate the perceptions by a cognitive representation of the scene and the observed actions. The anthropomorphic robotic hand imitates the gestures acquired by the vision system in order to learn meaningful movements, to build its knowledge by different conceptual spaces and to perform complex interaction with the human operator.
The effects of interletter spacing in visual-word recognition.
2010
Despite the importance of determining the effects of interletter spacing on visual-word recognition, this issue has often been neglected in the literature. The goal of the present study is to shed some light on this topic. The rationale is that a thin increase in interletter spacing, as in casino, may reduce lateral interference among internal letters without destroying a word's integrity and/or allow a more precise encoding of a word's letter positions. Here we examined whether identification times for word stimuli in a lexical decision task were faster when the target word had a slightly wider than default interletter spacing value relative to the default settings (e.g., casino vs. casino…
Goethe y la arquitectura teatral
2016
[EN] As a playwright and theatre director in Weimar, Goethe became interested in theatre architecture. He proved it in his architectural drawings. He channeled his ideas through theatre type described by Vitruvius and its modern time adaptation by Palladio in his Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza. All this was reflected in several sketches and the project developed together with architect Coudray after the fire in Weimar theatre in 1825