Search results for "Redrawing"
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U.I.R.D.A. – Unbuilt Italian Rationalism Digital Archive
2018
For twenty years, the architecture of Italian rationalism through the digital modelling has been investigated. Very often, the production of a model and the consequent representation of tridimensional views, in many case studies, as outcome of the research on architecture have been considered. Actually, the digital model, intended as a critical tool, has to be conceived as a ‘starting point' for graphic analysis of architecture and not as the outcome. Indeed, it is associated to other graphics, sometimes not ‘deducted' from the model, useful for the understanding/translation of architecture. The construction of the model is not the construction of a simple image, operation, which is often c…
Egle Renata Trincanato. Unbuilt
2016
In the spring of 1947, the ‘Venetian’ architect took part in the competition, organized by the Municipality of Venice, for a series of houses to be built in the north and south estuary of the Venetian lagoon, obtaining the first and second prize, both ex aequo, with projects for residences proposals in Burano and Pellestrina. In these two unbuilt works, we can trace some important methodological aspects about the approach to the project by the architect who will make Venice the city subject of her later studies.
Images of the imagined city
2018
The essay investigates one of the projects in the competition for the expansion of the North area of Palermo named ZEN 2 and designed by the architects Pasquale Culotta, Giuseppe Laudicina, Teresa Cannarozzo, Anna Maria Fundarò and Tilde Marra, in 1970. The essay aims at illustrating the spatial, figurative and urban qualities of it. The analysis of the project has been guided by a written text and the graphic support, that is the project report and the attached drawings, in Indian Ink, made by the architects themselves, indeed very often fragmented and difficult to be interpreted. In this regard, the support of digital drawing in two-dimensional and three-dimensional form, based on the cre…
Drawing and Project at the VChUTEMAS. Graphic Interpretations
2019
The article deals with the graphic study of the project for the Kominern Palace designed in 1929 by Lidija Komarova, one of the students of the Russian Laboratories known by the acronym VChUTEMAS, founded in 1920 in Moscow. Strongly characterized by the revolutionary atmosphere that was delineating the artistic progress based on the synthesis of all the plastic arts, the Russian Laboratories attributed to the architecture a position of the first order, a perfect association between the scientific possibility and the art technique. The redrawing of this project allows to deepen the compositional principles of the new architectural formation of the Eastern European avant-garde, providing digi…
Reading the Transformations of an Urban Edge: From Liberty Era Palermo to the City of Today
2019
To honour the battle of 27 May 1860, in 1910 the Palermo City Government decided to realise a commemorative monument. A position at the centre of a large circular plaza was of have afforded the monument a greater solemnity. The commission for the Monument was awarded to Ernesto Basile. In 1927 the City Government decided to dedicate the monument to the Fallen and asked Basile to complete the monument adding an architectural backdrop. The first version of the new project was a fence that enveloped the entire square and the ring road, interrupted only by entrances near the streets flowing into the square, and dividing it into four sectors. The final design instead called for the realisation o…
The Project of Maurizio Sacripanti’s Science Museum
2020
The essay aims to explain, through relation and drawings, the process that led to the critical redrawing of the New Science Museum in Rome. In order to understand the 1983 project, it was necessary to establish the key points of Maurizio Sacripanti’s design process. The first part is entirely addressed to the biography, specifically analyzing the salient points of his life and considering the artistic and literary influences that at that time gravitated in the Roman context. The second part analyzes Sacripanti’s thought in order to understand every facet of his architectural language, together with the study of the most significant projects, in order to draw the necessary conclusions about …
Sacripanti Unbuilt. Icons of Modernity
2021
The figure of Maurizio Sacripanti has been one of the most interesting on the Italian architectural scene since the Second World War but, in the light of the events of the last 40 years, he is also a character who, in his own right, is a corner- stone of the varied architectural thought of the peninsula. The projects of the Roman architect, from the ‘60s, far from neo-religionism, neo-liberty, neo-rationalism and other architectural trends that unfolded in those years, show us a very particular way of doing architecture characterized by a sort of apparent linguistic contradiction that instead finds its structure in a unitary and coherent thought in which there are references to other artist…
Il Caffè Arabo alla IV Esposizione Nazionale di Palermo: dai disegni di Ernesto Basile alla ricostruzione virtuale
2016
A partire dalla rilettura di disegni originali di progetto e riproduzioni grafiche d’epoca, il contributo indaga il caffè arabo progettato da Ernesto Basile per la IV Esposizione Nazionale di Palermo. Il presente studio rientra nel filone delle ricostruzioni virtuali di architetture non più esistenti o solo disegnate e si configura quale tassello mancante di un lavoro più ampio e già edito riguardante la maggior parte del complesso espositivo. La ricostruzione virtuale si connota quale strumento di indagine e visualizzazione di un’architettura effimera, in una parte di città perduta. This text studies the project for the Caffé Arabo designed by Ernesto Basile for the IV Esposizione Nazional…
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 …
Postfazione
2021
In 1933, Emil Kaufmann revealed the figure of Jean-Jacques Lequeu to a wider audience for the first time by publishing, in his Von Ledoux bis Le Corbusier, a number of drawings by the then almost unknown architect from Normandy to support the thesis, still debated today, that sees Claude-Nicolas Ledoux's "revolutionary" architecture as the origin of a natural line of sight which, starting from the purity of neoclassical forms, leads directly to the works of the masters of the modern movement. The afterword analyses Felice Romano's study of the Novelle Méthode.