In: Form-finding, form-shaping, designing architecture : experimental, aesthetical, and ethical approaches to form in recent and postwar architecture = approcci sperimentali, estetici ed etici alla forma in architettura, dal dopoguerra ad oggi, 2015, p. 77-95
Form(-finding), aesthetics and ethics are key concepts in the philosophy of architect Frei Otto. Several of his ideas currently appear to be experiencing a renaissance. This is especially true for his concept of “form-finding” which frequently features in contemporary architectural discourse – albeit often with one of two common misconceptions: in the first, the term is used, or...
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Mendrisio : Mendrisio Academy Press, 2015
(ISA, Istituto di storia e teoria dell'arte e dell'architettura)
ISBN: 978-88-3663-265-7
During the last twenty years, the topic of form has become one of the most controversial issues in public and professional discussions about architecture. Ever since the Digital Turn, it has been exacerbated, since computer-aided design makes it possible, rapidly and effortlessly, to create extraordinary and emblematic buildings. These icons are threatening to become banal and often express...
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In: L'architecture de l'Empire entre France et Italie : institutions, pratiques professionnelles, questions culturelles et stylistiques (1795-1815), 2020, p. 3-26
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In: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, 2018, vol. 60, no. 1, p. [200]-219
This article offers a fresh reading of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century architecture in Russia based on methodological assumptions that scholarly debate has rarely taken into account. First of all, the Council of Ferrara and Florence (1437–1439) is considered an important starting point for the renewal of architectural discourse in Russia. Secondly, the Italian contribution to the...
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Mendrisio : Mendrisio Academy Press, 2015
(ISA, Istituto di storia e teoria dell'arte e dell'architettura)
ISBN: 978-88-3663-143-8
Costretto a lasciare Bucarest nel 1948, Ionel Schein (1927-2004) trova asilo politico a Parigi, dove la sua biografia si intreccia a quella di alcuni protagonisti della scena architettonica del tempo, come Georges-Henri Pingusson, Le Corbusier, Jean Prouvé e Bruno Zevi, con i quali stringe rapporti duraturi che vanno dalla filiazione intellettuale alla collaborazione professionale. I suoi...
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Mendrisio ; Cinisello Balsamo : Mendrisio Academy Press ; Silvana Editoriale, 2012
(Saggi ; 18)
ISBN: 978-88-3662-295-5
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Mendrisio ; Cinisello Balsamo : Mendrisio Academy Press ; Silvana Editoriale, 2014
(ISA, Istituto di storia e teoria dell'arte e dell'architettura)
ISBN: 978-88-3662-981-7
«L’architecture est le jeu savant, correct et magnifique des volumes assemblés sous la lumière». Alluding to Le Corbusier’s famous statement of 1923, this collection of essays solicits critical reflection on the relationship between light and architecture, on both theoretical and practical levels. Beginning with a discussion of the problem of how to represent light and its effects within...
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Mendrisio : Mendrisio Academy Press, 2020
ISBN: 978-88-8762-49-08
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In: Form-finding, form-shaping, designing architecture : experimental, aesthetical, and ethical approaches to form in recent and postwar architecture = approcci sperimentali, estetici ed etici alla forma in architettura, dal dopoguerra ad oggi, 2015, p. 33-47
For many twentieth-century designers, the reduced-scale model represented an essential device for defining and controlling structural forms — one need only think of the work of Arturo Danusso, Pier Luigi Nervi and Sergio Musmeci in Italy; Eduardo Torroja in Spain; Heinz Isler and Heinz Hossdorf in Switzerland; and Frei Otto in Germany, etc. In addition to technical variations associated with...
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In: Pratiche architettoniche a confronto nei cantieri italiani della seconda metà del Cinquecento, 2019, p. [VII]-XXV
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