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Il Moderno brasiliano di Crofton e Benjamin in Sudafrica, Las Vegas e la creazione di uno “stile”/The Brazilian Modern of Crofton & Benjamin in South Africa, Las Vegas and the creation of a “style”
No full textL’edificio Las Vegas (1956-57), un volume a forma curva di dieci piani più attico sormontati da una grande pensilina che ospita trentadue unità abitative di lusso, si trova sul lungomare della città portuale di Durban (Sudafrica). Progettato dagli architetti sudafricani Derek Crofton e Issy Benjamin, esprime un tipo di architettura residenziale collettiva vicina alle forme in calcestruzzo del Moderno brasiliano, ma con tratti specifici e locali. La facciata e la struttura ad articolazione tripartita in sezione, che si adattano al clima e al paesaggio sub-tropicale circostante, costituiscono in particolare un prototipo di residenze dove, come spiega lo stesso Benjamin, «il nostro stile si sviluppò concretamente». Negli anni successivi (1957-1964) i due architetti costruiranno infatti in città altri complessi residenziali che, pur con le loro peculiarità, sono uniti da un’idea architettonica e stilistica comune e tra le più interessanti del Moderno sudafricano del periodo.The Las Vegas building (1956-57), a ten-story curved volume with penthouse, dominated by a large canopy, housing thirty-two luxury residential units, is located on the beachfront of the port city of Durban (South Africa).
Designed by South African architects Derek Crofton and Issy Benjamin, it embodies a type of collective residential architecture close to the concrete forms of Brazilian Modernism, but with specific local characteristics. The façade and the tripartite articulated structure, adapting to the surrounding subtropical climate and landscape, particularly constitute a prototype of residences where, as Benjamin himself explains, «our style really developed». In the subsequent years (1957-1964), the two architects would indeed build other residential complexes in the city. Despite their peculiarities, both are united by a common architectural and stylistic idea, which is amongst the most interesting of South African Modernism of the tim
Geographies of the Divided City during Apartheid. Durban’s Block AK
No full textBlock AK, an area of about six hectares in Greyville, in the centre of Durban (South Africa), once home to a lively multicultural community, is today almost uninhabited, still marked by the apartheid segregations (1948-1994). Declared ‘Area for Whites’ in 1963, the forced removals of the inhabitants were carried out alongside its demolition (completed in 1980). Very little has remained of the life of that time: only a few photos and the voice of those who once lived there. The contribution, after an introduction on apartheid urban planning, traces the history of the place trying to determine its original configuration and possible future scenarios. Recovering the memory of Block AK is an urgent need, also in the light of other experiences in South Africa, such as in District Six (Cape Town) and South End (Gqeberha), where two museums, built next to areas demolished by the apartheid, testify to history. The original inhabitants, united in the Block AK Action Committee, demand compensation and reclaim their identity
House Biermann in Durban: A Case of “Regional Vernacular” in the Modern Architectural Heritage of South Africa
No full textIn September 2020, the South African Institute of Architects KwaZulu-Natal Regional Heritage Committee launched an urgent national and international appeal to support the preservation of an important architectural artifact: the house of Barrie Biermann in Durban. The building, considered the most significant project carried out by the South African architect and academic, is today in danger of being demolished. Built in 1962 with great economy in the residential district of Westridge, it represents Biermann's particular vision of modern architecture and was a compelling experiment in domestic space. The present article reconstructs, through a selection of archival materials and pictures from the Technical Reference Library (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban), the context and design ideas of the project and some construction features. These aspects, in particular related to Biermann's architectural vision and references, highlight the vital need to protect this heritage of modern architecture in the context of South Africa
Laboratorio Sabbioneta. Forma, tipo e costruzione di una città ideale
No full textSabbioneta, fondata nel Cinquecento dal duca Vespasiano Gonzaga, rappresenta un esempio emblematico di città ideale rinascimentale, rimasta quasi intatta nel tempo. Il suo carattere la rende un caso studio unico che offre spunti di riflessione per ripensare interventi progettuali nei centri storici consolidati, spesso resistenti al cambiamento.
Partendo dall’analisi della città gonzaghesca, il libro si pone un duplice obiettivo: da un lato, sviluppare una riflessione teorica sul progetto in contesti monumentali, dall’altro, delineare un metodo di studio su cui fondare interventi in questi luoghi. Il volume esplora inizialmente l'“idealità” progettuale di Sabbioneta, per poi affrontare le problematiche legate alla costruzione in ambiti monumentali, mettendo in dialogo teoria e pratica del progetto. Questa lettura si inserisce nella consolidata tradizione degli studi urbani, riconoscendo il valore dell’analisi urbana come strumento necessario all’elaborazione di un percorso di conoscenza critica, imprescindibile nella progettazione.
Arricchisce la ricerca, un’indagine fotografica sui monumenti e sul paesaggio di Sabbioneta, essenziale per comprendere il carattere del luogo, e una serie di contributi che offrono punti di vista e narrazioni diverse sulla città e il territorio
Should we be cautious on the use of commercially available antibodies to dopamine receptors?
No full textGene expression profile of prostate cancer cell lines: effect of nerve growth factor treatment
No full textDiffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)
No full textThis study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)
Constructing specific SOS semantics for concurrency via abstract interpretation
No full textMost of the SOS semantics for concurrent systems can be
derived by abstracting on the inference rules of a concrete transition
system, namely the proved transition system. Besides the standard interleaving semantics we mechanically derive the causal transition system
for C C S, whose definition is particularly difficult and paradigmatic. Its
rules are shown to coincide with those presented in the literature. Also,
the tree of its computations coincide with that obtained by abstracting
the computations of the proved transition system
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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