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Modern Architecture goes on Holiday, The Lidi di Mortelle in Sicily, a small linear city by the sea
2008
Sea resorts bring to the extreme the modern architecture restoration themes, due to the difficulty of preserving buildings which were never meant to last, and are particularly exposed both to harsh climatic conditions and to changes in social habits. The interest of this study lies in the possible demonstration that this holiday architecture typology, so fragile and recent, often regarded as secondary if compared to the ‘serious’ building types, should be the object of research and preservation as a privileged field of experimentalism for modern architecture.
Elaboration of a Critical Paradigm for Interpreting Modern Architecture: The Almost Intangible Essence of Luigi Moretti's Casa del Balilla at Trecate
2021
Modern architecture is not, from a lexical point of view, uniquely definable. The heterogeneity of the twentieth century heritage is therefore a collective wealth that should be protected from the risk of falling into oblivion. In order to avoid this, it could prove fundamental to establish a process of the knowledge of these assets. This should not, however, result in a simple and passive recording of architectural facts: a deep understanding of the complexity of modern architecture, which has as its objective the protection of buildings, could be obtained, for example, through a real and proper decoding of signs, conducted by a critical use of the metalanguage most congenial to the archit…