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La construcción del lenguaje en el Teatro Popular de Sciacca de Giuseppe y Alberto Samonà / The construction of language in the Sciacca popular Theat…
2018
El Teatro popular de Sciacca de Giuseppe Samonà y su hijo Alberto –dos importantes guras de la arquitectura italiana– es una de las más significativas obras italianas de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Inaugurado en 2015, después de una larga construcción de cuarenta años, el teatro tiene una original implantación con doble sala; está compuesto por tres grandes volúmenes (un paralelepípedo, un cono y una pirámide) y expresa una arquitectura de la imagen, una idea de un espacio determinado por formas puras y del uso de un único material (el hormigón visto). El uso de tres formas arquetípicas es una vuelta a los orígenes, una idea casi clásica y racional de la arquitectura; al mismo tiempo es …
BLANCO AL CUADRADO. Arquitectura blanca en hormigón blanco
2020
[EN] The white color in architecture has a particular dimension for technical-functional, sensory and, above all, spatial reasons. It also contains the symbolic values that over time have determined a kind of myth -with ancient and uncertain origins, but present to contemporary times. The use of the raw concrete allows the construction of intrinsically white buildings, with the possibility of obtaining monomaterial and monochromatic constructions. Throughout the twentieth century, and even today, the mechanical characteristics of white concrete have been continuously implemented and their modalities of use have expanded not only in performance capabilities but also in the aesthetic and expr…
A material for memory
2022
Every piece of architecture always aspires to become a monument, if only for the intentionality of meaning, witness and duration that becomes suggestive and evident through the etymological interpretation of the Latin verbs memini, moneo, maneo: every construction, in fact, it recalls the sense of its necessity and essence; it admonishes by arousing respect with the force of the image and the meaning it conveys; it remains durable and, ideally, eternal. There are, then, the architectures specially built to remember in which the utilitas transcends the usual considerations of functional type and sublimates itself in the manifestation of the memory, while the fi rmitas conserves and maintains…