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Re-generating the cities
2011
Even when they seem closer to the end or they experience moments of crisis, cities have the quality to regenerate. As history testifies, their tracks, streets, monuments become the seed of a new life: they born on the ruins of other big cities which continue to preserve memory. The new takes origin from what was already there, alternating end and rebirth in which fragments, spaces, shapes emerge as a program for perpetuity, urban forms that survive the change of the functions and new phenomena. This reflection leads us to think that the reading and perception of built form continues to be an indispensable tool, even if on operating plan, to update methods and strategies able to express aest…
Perspectives of a possible horizon
2018
The contemporary landscape expresses in itself all the contradictions of present time, marked by the lack of a coherent thought on the transformation of places and of a clear aesthetic elaboration. So, the project must reflect not only on the relationship between man and the landscape but above all on the importance of taking care of the physical present, on the need to return to a way of dwelling that respects the places. Architecture, looking for the complete sense of the landscape, plays a fundamental role in the reconstruction of coherence of places and reveals their latent beauty.
Variabilité architecturale du test chez le genre Collyrites (Echinoidea, Disasteroidea) au Jurassique moyen.
2007
Resume L’evolution de l’architecture du test et en particulier celle du « complexe systeme apical–periprocte » chez le genre Collyrites (Echinoidea, Disasteroidea) est analysee pour les especes des etages Bathonien et Callovien (Jurassique moyen) provenant de plusieurs localites du bassin de Paris. Le systeme apical du genre Collyrites est subdivise en deux parties : (i) une partie anterieure, denommee trivium, composee de quatre plaques genitales (1, 2, 3, 4) et de trois plaques ocellaires (II ; III ; IV) ; (ii) une partie posterieure, denommee bivium, composee de deux plaques ocellaires (I, V) et d’une plaque genitale (5), sans gonopore et non fonctionnelle, entourant le periprocte. Le pa…
“Eight houses”
2011
In the cycle of the conferences that took place in the Open City-Piacenza International Summer School, the Portuguese architect Manuel Aires Mateus introduced eight projects of isolated houses in Portugal. The projects, that were displayed at the last Venezia Architecture Biennale, People meet in architecture , born from the idea of composing an architecture capable of telling the new ways of life through the space as a mean for expressing the thinking on the contemporary society.
Advances in Utopian Studies and Sacred Architecture : a culmination of selected research papers from the International Conference on Utopian and Sacr…
2021
This book, on Advances in Utopian Studies and Sacred Architecture, contains selected research from the International Conference on Utopian and Sacred Architecture Studies which was held in association with the university of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” of Italy. Research from the conference has undergone a rigorous review process thanks to the book editors and scientific committee of reviewers. The book explores the interdisciplinary field of utopian studies and specifically the relationship between architecture and utopia as one that is long- standing and pervasive. It namely draws upon the transition and even intersections between contemporary and historical geographies of sacred architect…
Nuovi media per il progetto di fruizione e valorizzazione
2011
Digital media allows the exploration of architectural space and direct control of its transformations in all phases of the project. Therefore the designer’s skills increase and the quality of the project is benefitted by this. Representing the reality that surrounds us, land or built, landscape or archaeological evidences the opportunity is provided model to all the factors used to describe the same reality. Through current modeling software you can achieve more complex forms of representation. Indeed they add up to traditional graphics media and an additional system of information is available. It becomes a stimulus to our conceptual skills, activating them to govern the complexity and to …
Architecture et communauté italienne en Tunisie pendant les vingt ans du fascisme
2011
Segmentato in cicli formalmente eterogenei, e però omologabili in base al comune denominatore della facies mediterranea, il filone delle architetture costruite negli anni Trenta dagli italiani a Tunisi, a Biserta, a Sousse, a Sfax e a Ferryville si mostra, dunque, principalmente tributario dei modi Déco della costa meridionale della Francia (con apprezzabili riferimenti all’edilizia coeva di Marsiglia e di Nizza). Succede pure che questo generale orientamento, limitatamente ad una ridotta aliquota di esempi di architetture ideate con maggiore respiro culturale, possa contemplare mediazioni con le espressioni più innovative di quella modernità accademizzante che nella Parigi di quegli anni a…
“Architecture and infrastructure: the road between trace and artefact”
2012
the paper analyses the relationship between architecture and infrastructure in the development of the modern city in the 20th century.
Architectures for a creative city
2015
The particular attention to the creative regeneration of the abandoned spaces is the core of the book, that orients the attention to the opposition between Tradition and Innovation, focusing on the transformation of architectural, urban and territorial contexts in terms of recovering and reuse of the resources. Starting from the urban creativity is opened Milano Expo main event 2015, with a constant relationship, both real and virtual, on the contamination among architecture and resources’ use. In this line, the theme chosen for the International Exhibition «Feeding the Planet. Energy for Life» is a reference corner-stone, assuming the architectural and urban design as more and more tied wi…
Editors' note
2015
The book, aimed to give a point of view, collects both the answer given by the students and the theoretical thoughts of scientific directors, professors and tutors who have guided the students during the fifth edition of the OC Open City International Summer School of Piacenza: "Architecture for the Creative City".