Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021ARC004.
This research studies the migration of Europeans to Lima between the 1930s and the late 1960s and analyses their influence on the evolution of architecture and urbanism in the Peruvian capital. The so-called Ciudad de los Reyes was the main administrative centre of the South American territories dominated by the Spanish Crown between the 16th and 19th centuries. The participation of Europeans...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021ARC003.
In 1996, the newly founded Academy of Architecture of Mendrisio invited Peter Zumthor to be the professor in charge of one of the school’s first three design studios. What took form from that was a singular educational experience, conducted by Zumthor as a didactic project spanning a three-year period - the academic years of 1996-97, 1997-98 and 1998-99 - and comprehending a sequence of 19...
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In: Vom Wesen der Dinge : Realitäten und Konzeptionen des Materiellen in der chinesischen Kultur, 2021, p. 169-191
Construction waste and rubble are socially and materially embedded in China’s urbanization process. Demolition sites have become omnipresent parts of cityscapes, and the construction industry contributes to the growth of the Chinese economy in significant ways. While the old houses disappear, their constituting materials (e.g., tiles, bricks, stones) remain as reused re-sources. Rather than...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2021ARC002.
This study is located at the intersection of architecture and the social sciences. Its core is an ethnographic investigation of how Cairo experiences and tackles urban heatwaves, which was carried out primarily by looking at people’s building practices. The research is structured along three axes. The first consists of a historical overview of the Egyptian architectural field, based on a...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2021ARC001.
This thesis examines the second part of the career of the architect Adolf Loos (1870-1933) from the end of the First World War until 1933, and especially after his departure from Vienna in 1923. From the mid-1920’s onwards, Loos built, projected and published between France, Czechoslovakia and Austria. Our working hypothesis is that, far from being a period "in hollow" as historiography has...
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In: Arte e cultura, 2020, no. 15, p. 38–57
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In: Social anthropology/Anthropologie sociale, 2019, vol. 27, no. 4, p. 17 p
The materiality of and daily life in urban high‐rise buildings has barely been researched, especially when compared to the rich anthropological and architectural studies that exist on rural architecture. This article engages with indoor climate control in an urbanising environment. It considers urban architecture as a social field characterised by the interaction of diverse actors such as...
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In: Eurasian geography and economics, 2020, vol. 61, no. 1, p. 77-99
Architectural research often considers buildings and settlement practices as local material adaptations to climate, particularly when it comes to the analysis of architecture in rural and small-scale settlements. Based on ethnographic data from the rapidly urbanizing oasis metropolis Ürümchi in China’s northwestern borderlands, this paper goes beyond such a localized view of climate ...
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Mendrisio ; Cinisello Balsamo : Mendrisio Academy Press ; Silvana Editoriale, 2011
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ISBN: 978-88-3662241-2
Questo volume trae origine dal convegno internazionale di studi “Cosa è architetto. Domenico Fontana tra Melide, Roma e Napoli (1543-1607), tenutosi a Melide nell’autunno 2007. Un’occasione importante per fare il punto sulle conoscenze riguardanti la figura di Domenico Fontana (Melide 1543-Napoli 1607) che – famoso in particolar modo per la progettazione di obelischi – ha inaugurato...
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In: Livio Vacchini, Scuola ai Saleggi di Locarno, 1970–1979 : genesi, trasformazioni e salvaguardia di un’architettura esemplare, 2020, p. 28-43
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