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The Teaching of Restoration at the Architecture School of the Politecnico di Milano. Traditions and Perspectives
No full textThe School of Applied Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano was set up in 1865 by Camillo Boito who also inspired the socalled Italian approach to restoration. And in the Milan School the Restoration of architecture has been taught since its foundation; later on, the “patrimony” to be protected has been envisaged, in the widest sense, as a cultural resource. That long tradition has a complex history which has involved the School in relations with the public bodies and institutions responsible for such protection. However, it has also generated fertile collaboration with other areas of scientific enquiry and numerous centres of applied research. The significance of such teaching must be reassessed in the light of circumstances which are profoundly different to those of a few decades ago, and which continue to change rapidly. Bearing in mind that Italy has a long tradition of seeing architects rather than civil engineers as the key figures in such restoration, of central importance here is the issue of the role of the architecture in contemporary society, and of the discipline of restoration within the School itself. The inevitable crises and difficulties in teaching models, past and present, must then be examined. One must, once again, looks at the scale and definition of “patrimony” in the various regions of Europe, reviewing the strategies to be adopted in order to maintain that cultural wealth and hand on to future, and examine how one is to approach the process of planning which – given its object is the built environment – has to draw upon a wide range of disciplines. The huge variety in the cultural background, skills and expectations of the students now training as architects also poses a new challenge. One way to meet this challenge might be to strengthen and extend the networks linking places of education and research, both within Europe and beyond – networks which themselves include the huge patrimony of public sites and buildings that offer an extraordinary mass of material for study, examination and experimentation
The Teaching of Architectural Conservation in Europe
No full textIn Italian schools of architecture, restoration would from its very beginning be a defining discipline that clearly distinguished between the skills required of an architect and those possessed by a civil engineer. Now, in such a transitional world as our own, what role should be played by the teaching of restoration? This issue of how, within a rapidly changing present, such a discipline might define the professional function and figure of the architect is a matter in which a range of factors come into play. Obviously, one of these is the architectural schools themselves, but one must also bear in mind the policies adopted in the management of territorial resources and the very nature of the multiform globalised society within which one is striving to assert the role, value – and very future – of our built heritage. This is why it may be useful here to compare Italian and European schools of architectural restoration, looking at their past experiences, the analytical and interpretative approaches they have adopted, and their goals for the future. In one respect, this volume aims to compare the discipline of restoration as taught and practised in countries in which one can see a clear cultural and geographical proximity to Italy. However, at the same time, it also contains contributions whose goal is to establish a dialogue with other disciplines and centres of research that pursue a shared goal: knowledge, understanding and protection of our built heritage
Vagliare il deposito della grande crescita
No full textSui concetti di storicità e di valore del patrimonio esistente, con riferimento al caso del Regolamento Urbanistico Edilizio -RUE- di Bologna
Architettura minore del XX secolo, patrimonio risorsa
No full textA definition that was used throughout the twentieth century, “minor architecture” would, in
the first decades of that century, be applied to those structures and collections of buildings
(primarily housing) that were recognised as providing the setting for monuments (that is,
“major” architecture) and as expressing the character of a town. Research into typical
features, techniques and layouts of such architecture reflected the existence of building
traditions in solid equilibrium with the conditions applying in a particular place, and
raised the issue of how these were to be protected. The extant examples of traditional
architecture now form only a small part of a building fabric which in just a few decades
has radically transformed our rural and urban landscapes – and which is the centre of
focus in this volume. The issues to be discussed concern architecture that is not necessarily
associated with big names and yet generates sizeable, though sometimes humble, building
stocks: low-cost housing, the large estates or ensembles built in the post-war decades,
infrastructures and buildings serving the manufacturing or service industries. By focusing
upon the various meanings and nuances that the term “minor architecture” can take on
when applied to twentieth-century buildings, one can explore and assess how identification
and conservation are interrelated. The evaluation of existing circumstances, of changes in
use and context, is connected with the still open question of the future that one can imagine
for the architectural heritage left by the twentieth century – a future which starts with
extensive consensus regarding the value of such architecture both as a witness to the past
and as a present resource
La prefabbricazione, strategie per la ricostruzione a Milano. Dalle sperimentazioni alle realizzazioni
No full textMid term radiological evaluation of an humeral press-fit stem
No full textIntroduction: The choice ot o press-tit or cemented humerol stem in shoulder replocement is still uncieor. Press-tit stem
provide o better primory iixotion ond presenre o good bone stock in cose ot revision, but loosening [clinicol or rodiologicol)
seems to be on importont issue to consider.
Aim: The oim ot this study is to evoluote ot o mid tollow up the rodiologicol outcome ot o press-tit humerol stem in shoulder
replocement
Methods: We reviewed ata mean FU ot 7.2 years (48-144 months) l26 shoulder replacements (23 hemy, 43 total and 60
reverse). All The patients were evaluated with series ot radiographs preop, postop and at final tollow up and in case of persis-
tant pain we asl< tor a scintigraphy. We specitically looi< tor radiological sign of loosening (radiolucent lines, progression ot
radiolucent lines and any change ot position of the stem).
Results: l\lone ot The stem were revised. l·lovewer 2l patients were revised tor ditterent reasons: l4 were converted tram
hemy or total shoulder artroplasty to reverse, 7 were Treated with a spacer atter a sepsis. We found 4 patients with a positive
scintigraphy tor aseptic loosening ot The implant, but The patients didn't want to have a revision. Many patients (96) had ra-
diolucent lines lesser Than 2 mm but in 65 ot This group The radiotucent lines were present at the tirst radiograph.
Conclusion: We concluded that press-tit humeral stem is stable option in shoulder arthoplasty
Antiphospholipid syndrome in a boy with double mutation of MTHFR and protrombin genes
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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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