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Eileen Gray: lo spirito plastico di un disegno sfuggente
2013
The article offers a study about the artistic and eccentric personality of Eileen Gray, the Irish designer and architect. An independent, elusive, secretive figure, that with her creative instinct absorbed the French capital becoming soon, between 1910 and 1920, one of the leading exponents of the new revolutionary theories on design and architecture. Her thoughts took shape through drawings and models with which assumed full control of the material used and her notes, strictly in French, supported the rigor and the harmony of her projects, which made it possible to define her one of the pioneers of the Modern Movement.
Luciana Natoli: Theory and Project
2017
The work of Luciana Natoli touched on several fields of architectural knowledge, showing again the numerous interests of the same. To understand the figure of this dynamic woman able to look at architecture through different scales of analysis, one must start with academic activity, correlated by many studies and interesting reflections to date on architecture and cities, then crossing the urban activity, with the collaboration in the drafting of numerous General Regulatory Plans, and finally get to the project activity. Natoli's commitment, filtered by a remarkable critical processing capacity, is common to research, didactic and professional works. This study investigates Luciana Natoli's…
Catoptric Anamorphosis on Free-Form Reflective Surfaces
2020
Lo studio si concentra sulla definizione di una metodologia geometrica per l’impiego dell’anamorfosi catottrica nell’architettura contemporanea. Viene illustrato il particolare fenomeno proiettivo, mostrandone proprietà tipologico-geometriche, rispondenti a meccanismi di riflessione della luce. Si evidenzia che le esperienze pregresse, nel corso dei secoli, impiegano la tecnica, relegando la realizzazione esclusivamente a dispositivi riflettenti realizzati da geometrie semplici, a piccola scala e quasi esclusivamente per specchi convessi. Volendo estendere l’impiego del fenomeno proiettivo e sperimentare le potenzialità espressive su superfici riflettenti di natura geo- metrica complessa fr…
La costruzione in fieri di un archivio privato
2022
A few years ago, from an idea born in 2015 on the occasion of a specific study on the professional activity of women architects in Palermo, Dacia and Sabina Di Cristina, daughters of the architect and university professor Luciana Natoli, born in 1936 and passed away too early, in 1978, at the age of 42, started to ‘build’ their mother’s archive. Natoli’s young age might suggest a modest size of the archive; in fact, the opposite is absolutely the case. It was in fact the sheer quantity of rolls, files, heliographic copies, drawings on tracing paper and sketch paper, photographs, correspondence, books and magazines that for so many years prevented her daughters from ordering this great mass …
The colour to knows the project ideas. The drawings of Giuseppe Damiani Almeyda
2012
Giuseppe Damiani Almeyda is insert into a historical context in which the issue of colour is living a phase of discovery and awareness. Author of numerous architectural works of international attention, arrives in Palermo in 1859, first like engineering of Civil Engineering to become a professor at the Faculty of Engineering. In the XIX century a lot of researchers of psychology, physics, optics, art and architecture are involved in meticulous research that could explain the reasons of colour, its alteration, the complementary compositions, the diagrams, the optical cones, its applications in the Greek and Roman culture. Thus, high-sounding names such as Thomas Young, James Clerk Maxwell, W…
Le Curve di Apollonio. Innovazione nei processi risolutivi, il caso della parabola.
2012
This study is connected with the research directed on the solving problem of a graphic representation of geometric objects using the informatics language, particularly the graphic software CAD. The solution of these problems requires a reliable command of stereometry and descriptive geometry and it can extend remarkably the level of external geometric competences. The implementation of the means of ICT has brought a higher effectiveness of graphing mapping processes. The modification of informatics means with the goal to simplify applications of descriptive and projective geometry is also of a great didactical importance. In particular, we focus attention on the treatment of the locus "cone…
Elena Ippoliti, Il disegno per Gaetano Rapisardi. Progetti per Siracusa tra cronache e storia, Franco Angeli, Milano 2020
2021
The book "Il disegno per Gaetano Rapisardi. Progetti per Siracusa tra cronache e storia" is certainly useful to take stock of the progress of research in the History of representation and is an indispensable book for the History of architecture, which can find in it both correct information and indispensable elements for a more exhaustive and well-founded evaluation of the variety and richness of modern architecture in Sicily. The review also describes its content.
From the descriptive geometry to the informatics language - Case study
2010
This study is centred in the environment of the research into solutions of the problems of graphic representation, expressing theoretical considerations which allow the carrying out of geometric-descriptive procedures decoded in informatics language, for implementing CAD commands. The solution of these problems requires a reliable command of stereometry and descriptive geometry and it can extend remarkably the level of external geometric competences. The implementation of the means of ICT has brought a higher effectiveness of graphing mapping processes. In the informatics field, the advent of software dedicated to computerized representation has increased the possibilities of investigation …
Three Projects for Council Houses by Lina Bo Bardi: from Virtual Reconstruction to Graphical Analysis
2018
The paper deals with the studies conducted in 1951 in Brazil by Lina Bo Bardi on the issue of council houses. The three examples were never realised but do help to describe the intention of the architect to promote a “rational” way of living, from a small house to an urban complex. The first project concerns a small house with a close relationship between architecture and nature. The second project concerns three housing units that embody the idea of the housing cell as a constituent piece of a community. The housing typologies to which the architect has referred are: the indigenous maloca, a community house used by the Amazon natives; the Italian peasant house with its living room; and the…
Dalle utopie urbane ai paesaggi virtuali
2014
Le utopie di spazi urbani mai realizzati, a volte sono riproposte tramite molteplici re-interpretazioni progettuali; in tal modo spesso il progetto urbano prende le mosse da mondi iper-reali, all’interno di un spazio-tipo che permette la definizione di un nuovo luogo, collocato in un tempo indeterminato, quasi come fosse un mondo ludico che stimola e costituisce parte integrante dell’immaginazione. L’articolo propone un approfondimento sull’evoluzione storica del concetto di città ideale, fino ad arrivare alle utopie visionarie degli anni ’70, per concludere con i paesaggi astratti dei disegni di Franco Purini e le molteplici dimensioni del ciber-spazio. The utopian abstraction about urban …