Search results for "STORIA DELL'ARCHITETTURA"
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Rebuilding Palermo in the Middle Ages: A Virtual Approach
2020
A long sequence of demolitions, transformations, interpretative restorations eliminated or compromised a series of civil and religious buildings built between the XII and early XVI centuries in Palermo. For many of these architectures, graphic, photographic and documentary evidence exists and can be found. Within an extensive project of the Department of Architecture of the University of Palermo, based on the collaboration between different disciplines, we intend to offer an essay of the possible results that the synergy between historical research and representation can offer. Chosen case is a fifteenth-century civil building located in the San Francesco district, of which some fragments r…
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.
Recensione di Cometa M. (2017), Il Trionfo della morte di Palermo. Un’allegoria della modernità, Quodlibet, Macerata
2019
Michele Cometa’s book analyzes the fifteenth-century fresco Il Trionfo della Morte (The Triumph of Death), conceived for the courtyard of the Ospedale Grande e Nuovo of Palazzo Sclafani in Palermo and currently housed in the Regional Gallery of Palazzo Abatellis, in the same city. The approach is inspired by Visual Culture studies: there are historical reconstructions and references to previous critical analyses of the pictorial work, but the fresco is interpreted in a new way, considering its narrative structure, thematic clusters as well as the allegories, the medieval topoi and the different cultural influences present in Sicily at the time.
Le "point de départ". Vittorio Ugo, architecte à Palerme dans les années soixante
2013
Vittorio Ugo (Palermo, 1938-2005) is an Italian architect, known mostly in Italy and France as theorist and critic. Whereas, much less known is his architectural work as author of projects on different scales: architecture, urban-planning, design, which Ugo himself, later on, would have considered as a pastime of his young age. In his practice of architecture, the author of the article see, on the contrary, the roots of his theoretical thought. Born from a family of artists - his grandfather was a sculptor, his father an architect - he was looking for an original way to be architect, feeling an ethical need to see architecture from a scientific point of view. Getting back to the work of Vit…
La Wagnerschule (Vienna 1894-1912): Wagner e la Moderne Architekture (The Wagnerschule (Vienna 1894-1912): Wagner and the Moderne Architekture)
2018
AbstrAct Otto Wagner, fra il 1894 e il 1912, mette in atto una riforma ‘verticistica’ di quel principio della riorganizzazione del visibile che è uno dei cardini della rivoluzione estetica dell’Art Nouveau. A differenza delle altre compagini di protagonisti del Modernismo il nucleo di allievi della sua scuola (tra cui Hoffmann, Plečnik, Deininger, schönthal, Hoppe, Fuchs), così come i suoi assistenti (fra cui primeggia J. M. Olbrich) e i fiancheggiatori esterni (valga per tutti il caso di M. Fabiani), pur non differenziandosi sul piano dell’orientamento interdisciplinare si distinguono, data la formazione, per una peculiare impronta accademica della loro preparazione ‘al moderno’ tale da co…
I luoghi dei Whitaker. Le architetture dei Whitaker in Sicilia: variabili del gusto vittoriano e suggestioni della cultura italiana fra revival ed ec…
2008
The Whitaker buildings in Sicily: variations on victorian style and evocations of italian culture from revival to eclectism
2008
L’USO DEI DISPOSITIVI DI RINFORZO LIGNEO NELL’ARCHITETTURA SICILIANA IN ETÀ MODERNA
2014
Il saggio studia l’uso dei dispositivi di rinforzo ligneo nelle architetture siciliane d’età moderna ponendo criticamente a confronto documenti di fabbrica, brani tratti dai trattati d’architettura, siciliani e non, e contributi offerti dalla letteratura storica non specialistica. Lo studio evidenzia la persistenza e le peculiarità d’uso di una tecnica che, molto diffusa in area mediterranea, in Sicilia si configura come una “invariante” del repertorio costruttivo tradizionale.
Repertori di finestre nei cori benedettini tra Montecassino, Napoli e Palermo (1558-1589): intaglio ligneo e architettura
2022
In the processes of embellishment or reconstruction of the Benedictine churches in southern Italy and in Sicily, during the sixteenth century, great care was put in equipping them with magnificent wooden choirs. This contribution retraces an artistic journey that from the abbey of San Martino delle Scale, near Palermo, passing through the complex of SS. Severino and Sossio in Naples, goes back to the abbey of Montecassino. In fact, the latter is the starting point of the sequence of the three choirs examined, with a specific focus on the architectural themes present in them and in particular the series of windows carved into the backs of the upper stalls. The vicissitudes of the three choir…
Scicli. La cappella di Sant'Antonio
2013
La scheda traccia la storia e descrive la geometria e i caratteri della fabbrica, operando un confronto con la serie delle cappelle cupolate cinquecentesche della Sicilia sud orientale.