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Poetics of Underground Space
This book investigates the relationship architecture has with the underground. It provides a broad ranging historical and theoretical survey of, and critical reflection on, ideas pertaining to the creation and occupation of underground space. It overturns the classic dictates of construction on the surface and through numerous examples explores recoveries of existing voids, excavations, caves, quarries, grottos and burrows. The exploitation of land, especially in areas of particular value, has given rise to the need to reformulate the usual approach to building. If the development of urban sprawl, its infrastructure and its networks, generates increasingly compromised landscapes, what are th...
Re-writings
Un'antologia di opere legate da un unico filo rosso: letture meditate di strutture, spazi, luoghi, cui seguono disegni puntuali che - lavorando sul sedime degli edifici, appoggiandosi alle murature esistenti, accumulando tracce, segni, sovrapposizioni - danno vita a una sorta di recupero stratigrafico del costruito. Un impegno più da scultore che da architetto, dove il togliere e il levare, possiedono lo stesso peso del porre e del disporre. A ogni scheda si accompagna poi un saggio che non si limita alla descrizione del programma funzionale ma che, attraverso il racconto, la citazione, il confronto con architetture simili, fornisce la possibilità di una altra lettura del progetto. Un'assimilazione fra tessiture murarie e fonti narrative, fra testo lapideo e testo letterario, fra bible de pierre e bible de papier, che si fa quasi letterale. Ri-scritture che variano dalla scala interna e di dettaglio, a quella architettonica e urbana, intrise di un medesimo approccio minimale, con quel tanto di anacronistico distacco che è necessario e inevitabile per un approccio critico con il passato.
Abitare la Terra n.29/2011 - Dwelling on Earth
EDUARDO SOUTO DE MOURA Luca Nicotera ALESSANDRO ANSELMI Stefania Tuzi LAKE|FLATO Maria Luna Vetrani ANTONIO MONESTIROLI Gaetano Fusco BOGDAN BOGDANOVIC Slobodan Selinkic CINO ZUCCHI Alessandra Sgueglia EMILIO CARAVATTI Pietro Fantozzi SUONI DI PIETRA / SOUNDS OF STONE Adriana Rossi CONSIDERAZIONI SULL’URBANISTICA A ROMA / THOUGHTS ABOUT URBAN PLANNING IN ROME Carlo Maltese INTERVISTA A CARLO PETRINI / INTERVIEW WITH CARLO PETRINI Mario Pisani
Ultimate Restaurant Design
Presents over seventy venues that stand out for their spectacular interior architecture.
Old Buildings Looking for New Use
The regions of Europe have an architectural heritage that is a thousand years old; today's challenge is to integrate this heritage into contemporary life in a sustainable way. From the first. architecture has always aimed to adapt to the way of life of the society it serves, but few buildings have come down to us intact and as they were originally designed. Since the second half of the 19th century the speeding-up of history has increased the rhythm of change and has led to continual restructuring, extension and conversion. These changes have brought about the use of more and more innovative techniques, based on flexibility and reversibility, but the weight of materials, the time needed to i...
The Palladio Method
The architect Andrea Palladio was a draughtsman and a designer, a mason and an engineer, an innovator and an image maker. His growing importance from the 16th century onwards was based on his profound expertise in architectural issues that went beyond singular tasks and situations, and beyond his particular moment in history. His way of thinking and solving architectural problems proved invaluable for centuries to come. The contributions to this volume reflect on Palladio's method(s) beyond historism and style, and thus provide insights into design and building in our time.
