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Form Follows (Non)Fiction
No full textThis article questions writing and architecture and the potential of innovation connected in their intersection. Autonomy of architecture, authorial control, social utopias, atmospheric phenomenology, narrative vs description are some of the issues here addressed
Design by Research
No full textWhat is research in architecture? The explorative attitude of design, taken always on uncharted territories by its need to mediate between interests, contexts and techniques, would suggest that architecture is research. This sort of tautological answer sounds both generic and precise: while avoiding the complexity of issues with which architectural research has to do right now, it points out a fundamental aspect of the contradictions the latter must deal with. At stakes there is the complicated relationship between theory and design
Villardjournal: Investigate
No full textvillardjournal is a publication of the Villard de Honnecourt PhD in design and theory, based at the Iuav University of Venice, and currently connected with ENSA Paris-Belleville, ETSAS Seville, and TU Delft.
villardjournal is an open project whose aim is to compare and integrate different approaches, fields, disciplines, generations.
villardjournal is a printed review, published twice yearly, devoted to criticism, theory, and research in the field of design at different scales.
villardjournal focuses on monographic issues, each edited by one or more authors. The articles are written by expert scholars, invited by the editors and selected through public calls
Vittorio Somenzi 1918-2003. Antologia e Testimonianze
No full textIl volume, con un saggio introduttivo di G. Corbellini e R. Cordeschi, raccoglie testi di Vittorio Somenzi (1918-2003) e diversi interventi sulla sua figura e la sua ricerca.
Elena Gagliasso ha scritto l'Introduzione "Storia, scienza, arte" al 5° capitolo, curando collegialmente l'intera opera con gli altri co-curatori
Note (per un’architettura) al margine
No full textUn commento sull'opera dell'architetto Valentino Zaccaria Simonitti in occasione della ristampa della monografia che ne raccoglie l'opera
Archaelogy / Archeologia
No full textRecycled Theory is a multidisciplinary dictionary made of entries in form of texts, drawings and quotes, which explore the concept of “recycling” in design cultures and in the theories that nurture them. The words here collected identify materials, procedures, ambiguities, deviations, and potential nexus of recycling, recording terms that tell the different processes of production and sense of city and landscape after recent socio-economic upheavals and the widening of preservation as the prevalent scenario for the project. Recycled Theory comes out of the collaboration of eleven Italian universities engaged in the research “Re-cycle Italy: New Life Cycles for Architecture and Infrastructure of City and Landscape.” The author has devoted an essay to "archeology", in Italian and English, identifying the history of archeology as an essential part of a more general history of recycling and as the vanguard of architectural history. The concepts of "excavation", "layer" and "life cycle"; "track", "indication" and "waste"; "archive", "site" and "context" have been investigated to unearth the deep relations between "Archeology", "Architecture", "History" and "Project.
Telling Spaces
No full textLanguage is our interface with the world, the way we understand it, think of, remember, transmit, and transform it. The accelerated times we are living in are thus witnessing a growing, pervasive role of storytelling at any level of social, political, and commercial communication. More than ever before, irremediably lost any authority of the forms, quickly consumed every new image, the discursive practices that produce and surround the project give architecture its meaning and support its action.
This book collects some theoretical reflections and design experiments about the relationship between narrative and architecture, words and things, texts and images, linear organisations in time and three-dimensional settings in place. They intersect their own tools, means, and aims, in order to grasp a complex whole: building stories and telling spaces
Re-cycle Gorizia
No full textThe recent insemination of the field of design with recycling owes its undeniable success to a widespread practice that is considered as intrinsically “good,” and, for once, easy to understand without cultural
mediation also by a wider audience of non-experts
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