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Get PDFIl padiglione progettato e realizzato da Le Corbusier e I. Xenakis per la promozione dei prodotti tecnologici dell’olandese Philips
all’Esposizione di Bruxelles del 1958 è il primo esempio di un’architettura contemporanea in cui si ricerca l’organicità tra
costruito e il potenziale mediatico ed espressivo del mezzo tecnologico. Collocando il caso studio principale in un filone che
si sviluppa con potenza dalle prime sperimentazioni di tipo performativo ed installativo portate avanti, ad inizio Novecento,
in contesti come quello della scuola del Bauhaus, il lavoro di ricerca si pone come obiettivo il ri-costruire una genealogia di
episodi architettonici che analizzi e metta a confronto possibili strategie ed approcci progettuali.
Negli ultimi decenni si è, a tutti gli effetti, assistito ad una progressiva smaterializzazione (o virtualizzazione) di una parte
dei “fatti” del mondo fisico alla quale non sempre è corrisposta una prassi architettonica in grado di porsi in dialogo con i
mutamenti in atto; è possibile riscontrare, però, nelle direttrici che si dipanano dal Padiglione fino ad oggi, degli approcci al
progetto critici, in grado di trovare una dimensione dialettica con un mezzo sempre più pervasivo senza doversi necessariamente
piegare alle sue logiche. Il lavoro mira quindi ad esaminare quali sono, tra le molteplici alternative possibili, quelle che con
maggior efficacia possono interpretare – e far sviluppare – il dialogo tra reale e virtuale, e tra i mezzi che questi due mondi
condensano.The pavilion designed and built by Le Corbusier and I. Xenakis to promote electronics products of the Dutch company Philips
at the 1958 Brussels World Exhibition can be considered the first case, in the field of contemporary architecture, where a building is organically intertwined with the expressive potential of multimedia.
After contextualising the main case study in the realm of performative and installation work developed, at the beginning of the twentieth century, in contexts of the likes of Bauhaus school, the research moves on to construct a genealogy of case studies in which the similar types of design strategies and approaches to those first shown in the Philips Pavilion emerge.
Over the last few decades a progressive dematerialisation (or virtualisation) of parts of the physical world has been taking place; apparently, neither architectural practice nor its theory for the most part have proven capable of building upon such deep changes. However, it is possible to find, as early as what is here the main case study, critical approaches to architectural design able to establish a dialectical interplay with such an increasingly pervasive medium, without necessarily having to adapt to its logic. The work ultimately aims to examine which ones, among the many possible alternatives, are the approaches that can best interpret – and develop – the dialectic interconnection between real and virtual, and between the means embodied by these two worlds
Vivere negli aeroporti
No full textGli antichi ben sapevano che il destino di quegli organismi che oggi chiamiamo città fosse strettamente legato alle vie di comunicazione, ovvero a ciò che le connette al resto del mondo generando la relazione con l’alterità. Oggi gli aeroporti sono gli spazi emblematici della cultura della società che li genera e vive, nonché incubatori del suo cambiamento e con la loro carica anticipatoria, talvolta contraddittoria, anche delle sue trasformazioni; non più aridi non-luoghi divengono ora isole di un arcipelago a scala globale, fisico almeno quanto immaginario. Che cosa succederebbe quindi se si andasse a vivere negli aeroporti? Questo viaggio nasce tracciando una mappa di possibili risposte a questa irragionevole domanda, esplorando la complessità dello stare al mondo odierno, navigando fra le tematiche che legano le città, gli aeroporti e l’utopia, volando alla ricerca di un nuovo destino per il vivere le nostre città
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Questioni di interfaccia, o l’architettura tra mondo fisico e virtuale
No full textOver the course of the past four decades or so, ever-growing technical developments gradually brought into
people’s daily life a purely virtual world – a world that, notwithstanding its abstract nature, undoubtedly has its
own spatial qualities. In this text the rise and development of this universe are briefly examined before trying to
understand how and to which extent architecture can operate with and within this mediatic space. The Philips
Pavilion designed by Le Corbusier/Xenakis is here considered as the potential first example of the mutual
contamination of architecture and media
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