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An Exchange of Ideas and Experiences in Building Restoration
Get PDF"Conservation of Buildings and Urban Areas",Symposia: 25-27 March 1993 in Gothenburg, Swede
Embracing the Concepts of Memory and Forgetting through Poetical Thought in Italian Design
No full textThis paper concerns the Italian art of memory since the 18th century with special reference to design and architecture. The philosopher Giambattista Vico and the architect and designer Aldo Rossi provide the theoretical backbone of the analyses together with interviews with Italian designers and design theorists such as Paolo Portoghesi, Alessandro Mendini, Gianni Braghieri, Alba Cappellieri and Giampaolo Babetto. The question of how the concepts of memory and forgetting can be enfolded by poetical thought in design is addressed, and design examples by Alessi and Babetto are introduced in this context. Both Alessi and Babetto see poetry and memory as very important components in the design process, providing their products with value and aim
The Primacy of Perplexion. Working Architecture through a Distracted Order of Experience. Part I
Get PDFThe issues addressed in this article moves around a central concern of mine, which is, in its essence, ambiguous. It is idealistic in the sense that it does not give up the belief in the possibility of living a responsible life, within a world of individuals and materiality. It is nihilistic in the sense that it avoids accepting any structures that are higher than the individual, that claim the right to, on an extra-human ground, conduct our decisions. The ambiguity is inherent but, I would argue, necessary. The article has been divided into two parts. Part I puts forward the theoretical position on which the further analysis is grounded and discusses the literary space of Virginia Woolf's novel Jacob's Room as a model for a 'distracted order' of reality. Part II discusses Steven Holl and Lebbeus Woods' respective works (texts and projects), focusing on the possibility of making an architecture that communicates through a 'distracted reality' and the two architects' very different approaches to responsible 'professional' action in today's society
Contemporary Industrial Architecture in Bulgaria
Get PDFIndustrial architecture in Bulgaria is undergoing a uniquely difficult period of development. A tremendous amount has been built in the past fifty years, greatly expanding the nation's industrial capacity. The requirements placed on industry by the new free market economy, however, are quite different from those posed by the previous centrally planned economy.What is the current condition of Bulgarian industrial architecture, what problems is it going through, and what developmental trends
The Chicago School of Sociology as a Point of Departure for Aldo Rossi
Get PDFAldo Rossi is known for basing his theory of urban design on academic knowledge, such as from certain French geographers, the Chicago School of sociology, and the perspective called "structuralism" from Sassure and Levi Strauss. This paper is to analyze his use of theory from the Chicago School, and to indicate how sociological knowledge might have been better used