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History of the Future - Dear Prudence
No full textDEAR PRUDENCE è il secondo capitolo delle cronache di History of the Future, viaggio nel diorama architettonico del XX e XXI secolo. Il progetto didattico raccontato nella presente pubblicazione si è svolto durante l’anno accademico 2016-2017, nell’ambito del "Laboratorio di Progettazione Architettonica 2A" diretto da Valter Scelsi.
«Camminare per conoscere e conoscere per demolire sono i due fili che legano le storie raccontate in questo breve volume»
Il volume include testi di Elisabetta Canepa, Alessandro Canevari, Francesco Careri, Paolo Carpi, Beatrice Moretti, Carlo Prati e Valter Scelsi
Atlas Of Pediatric Ocular Oncology
No full textThis atlas-book was conceived in the dark evenings during the Covid pandemic to keep the
mind busy, not only mine but also the young residents of our clinic.
The images that enrich each chapter are part of a life of over 30 years dedicated to ocular
oncology, mainly of the pediatric age.
A passion and commitment transmitted by my mentor Prof. Frezzotti who treated the first
retinoblastoma in 1959.
So here, I find myself collecting the most significant images of hundreds of clinical cases
faced, diagnosed and treated over the years.
Retinoblastoma is obviously the largest part of this atlas due to the over 900 cases observed
and treated in Siena.
It took almost 3 years...because unfortunately the time left to write, study and publish is
the evening hours after long and tiring days of clinical care activities.
My long friendship, collaboration and growth together with Paolo Galluzzi has allowed us
to add to each chapter MRI notions useful in the differential diagnosis of various pathologies.
My friend Rana’a helped correct some chapters and give his contribution on ocular mela-
noma in pediatric age.
Good friends and colleagues have been added among the collaborators for sending unu-
sual and rare cases.
I thank Tero Kivela, Sonia De Francesco, Tommaso Bacci, Marco Mazza, Mattia Pasti,
Alfonso Cerase, Lucia Monti, Mario Fruschelli and Cristina Menicacci for their precious
contributions.
An affectionate thought goes to all the young residents who, with great enthusiasm, em-
braced the topics assigned to them and carried out the various chapters with curiosity and
interest.
The drawings were all done by the talented resident Dimitris Pollalis who gave a truly
artistic touch to this atlas.
This book is dedicated to all ophthalmologists, of all ages, who are passionate, curious and
fascinated by their work with the hope that the hundreds of images can help to recognize
unusual and complex cases
Expo Milano 2015: il parco tematico del sostenibilismo
No full textUna lettura critica dal punto di vista della storia della forma architettonica e della sua evoluzione in funzione della narrativa dominante. "Sostenibilismo" e non sostenibilità come indice di un "movimento" che ha perso la propria carica rivoluzionaria in favore di una sua "rappresentazione". Contemporaneità e politica; storia e forma
La Misura
No full textBritish painter Carl Laubin entitled one of his greatest works of art “Metiendo Vivendum”.
The painting, which he defines a “capriccio”, represents almost the complete works of the architect Edwin Lutyens, disposed on a considerably large canvas like a romantic view of an ideal town. The centre of the painting is occupied by the Liverpool catholic cathedral which is cited as one of the greatest never-built architectures of the twentieth century. Absolutely classical in its symmetric disposition of arches, pediments, columns and frames, and crowned by a great dome, it is nevertheless undecorated in its complex, showing thousands of fine red bricks. The project was so enormous that Laubin believed he committed a mistake in reducing its scale for the painting.
“Metiendo Vivendum” was Lutyens’ motto: a statement which invokes measure (mensura) as the essential virtue of the architect. The concept of measure recalls numerous theoretical issues in the practice of architecture. It goes far behind the simple act of measuring; it implies a profound knowledge of order, composition, balance between weights and shapes, and, ultimately, an aesthetic consciousness.
The etymological root med already contains these meanings: to rule, judge, reflect, think. It is a word which belongs to the same universe of meanings of ius and dike: the cultural institution of justice, that requires not only “measurement” but also “moderation”. The art of composing architecture is then a measured capacity of conceiving beauty: aesthetic judgement.
Edwin Lutyens was surely a master of measure. John Summerson compared Liverpool cathedral’s façade to the work of Leon Battista Alberti, in integrating the elements of the arch of triumph in designing prospects. But right after his death, in 1944, Lutyens was promptly forgotten, despite his brilliant career as one of the British Empire’s main architects. Post-war modernists viewed
his Edwardian villas, memorials, colonial palaces in India and institutional buildings in Britain as an embarrassing witness of the past.
Nikolaus Pevsner even stated that any British architect deserved to be cited in the first forty years of the twentieth century.
These reputation’s rises and falls show how measure pervades the whole world of architecture, including the evaluations of historians and critics. It is then legitimate, even necessary, that also their works is submitted to measure and judgement, in a constantly changing structure of commenting and composing the discipline
Roberto Menghi: stile understatement
No full text«Meraviglia e stupore sono sentimenti aneddotici e contingenti. Non durano» diceva Auguste Perret. Roberto Menghi, uomo di bottega, fabbricava oggetti semplici e lirici insieme; classici del proprio tempo. Riservato e poetico, come le sue opere si confondeva nella quotidianità per farne emergere la qualità
An approach for the assessment of the Health-related Quality of Life based on multidimensional latent class Rasch models
No full textMixtures of equispaced Normal distributions and their use for testing symmetry in univariate data
No full textTwo-Tier Latent Class IRT Models in R
No full textIn analyzing data deriving from the administration of a questionnaire to a group of individu als, Item Response Theory (IRT) models provide a flexible framework to account for several aspects involved in the response process, such as the existence of multiple latent traits. In this paper, we focus on a class of semi-parametric multidimensional IRT models, in which these traits are represented through one or more discrete latent variables; these models allow us to cluster individuals into homo geneous latent classes and, at the same time, to properly study item characteristics. In particular, we follow a within-item multidimensional formulation similar to that adopted in the two-tier models, with each item measuring one or two latent traits. The proposed class of models may be estimated through the package MLCIRTwithin, whose functioning is illustrated in this paper with examples based on data about quality-of-life measurement and about the propensity to commit a crime
Caryatids
No full textTwo models, two columns. One talks through a univocal language which embodies the spirit of that precise cultural moment. She is sacred, univocal, exclusive, essential; a sign of a Grand Recit.
The other expresses herself through a multiple layer of signs. She is desacrating, ambiguous, inclusive; a sign of a syncretic and relative speech.
Both are iconic
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