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La seconda cerchia di mura di Pistoia: le modalità costruttive di un'opera collettiva e la sua impronta in absentia nella forma urbana
No full textThe walls built between the 12th and 13th centuries by the urban community represent, despite surviving materially only through a few fragments, an extraordinary episode of collective civic architecture, born from the political and economic efforts of an entire community. The research aims to investigate the contruction progress through documents, establish some connections between design and orography/hydrography and enhance the imprint that the artwork has handed down to the city
L'ex-chiesa di Santa Maria Nuova a Pistoia: Vicende costruttive, persistenze materiali e ipotesi di cantiere
No full textStudying the former church of Santa Maria Nuova in Pistoia provides a valuable opportunity to investigate the operating methods of the historic building site from the 13th to the 18th century. In fact, the church today is in a state of neglect and its ruinous condition allows a synchronic view of all its diachronic constructive and decorative phases. The relationship that the current crack framework might entertain with the church's position in the city will also be one of the research
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PLAYGROUNDS. Allora ci droghiamo
No full textForgotten Architecture nasce come gruppo Facebook il 28 maggio 2019 per condividere, in uno spazio virtuale, i progetti dimenticati o lasciati nell’ombra in Europa e nel resto del mondo. L’idea alla base di Forgotten Architecture è semplice: recuperare progetti di architetti poco noti e opere lasciate nell’ombra dei maestri, approfondire figure “minori”, unire diverse formazioni in Storia dell’Architettura per integrare il percorso universitario. Ideato da Bianca Felicori, ricercatrice e autrice di architettura, nel giro di poco tempo è diventato un fenomeno sociale e ha dato vita ad una vera e propria community coinvolgendo un pubblico di settore e non.
Forgotten Architecture ora diventa libro, e lo fa mantenendo i suoi caratteri di esperienza collettiva, dinamica ed orizzontale nata proprio sui social network. Per rimanere fedeli ai principi del gruppo, la scelta curatoriale per il corpo centrale del libro usa come traccia contenutistica le categorie architettoniche pubblicate con maggiore frequenza sul gruppo: l’architettura effimera, le stazioni di servizio, le discoteche e i villaggi vacanza, le case, i playgrounds. Molti dei testi sono stati scritti e curati da membri attivi del gruppo Facebook, che hanno liberamente interpretato il tema architettonico. Ogni capitolo è poi accompagnato da una selezione di progetti pubblicati sul gruppo, ognuno dei quali riporta, in didascalia, il nome della persona che lo ha condiviso sul gruppo Facebook.
Il libro di Forgotten Architecture è il risultato di anni di ricerca e raccolta di materiale fotografico, documenti e disegni da studi professionali, archivi privati e istituzioni
Georeferenced database for the architectural heritage: a tool for the study and enhancement of the medieval churches in the municipalities of southern Albania
No full textThe municipality of Finiq, as well as the adjacent ones - Delvinë, Sarandë, Konispol, Dropull - is populated by a large group of sacred buildings dating back to the early Middle Ages. We define the architectonic style of these churches as Byzantine, although actually the component closely related to the architecture of Byzantium is flanked by constructional, spatial and decorative types peculiar to the Epirus territory. The specificities of this built heritage are mainly due to the geographical location of Epirus as a frontier site between the Latin, Serbian and Greek areas of influence, at a time of the diaspora of the Byzantine legacy after the fall of the capital of the Empire to western hands in 1204. Currently, this set of sacred architecture, mostly monasteries and hermitages set in scenically significant locations, are being rediscovered, both from the scholarly and the purely touristic point of view.
What seems to be lacking at the moment is a tool capable of relating the buildings and through this relationship, which can be made explicit through the analysis of constructive, spatial and stylistic features, promote critical knowledge among scholars, also with a view to more controlled and conscious actions of protection, and foster their success in the sphere of valorization and promotion.
Such a tool can be configured through a georeferenced database, capable of storing within it data related to direct source (photographs, two-dimensional processing, models and 3D point clouds) and indirect sources (documents, bibliographic citations in scientific literature, ancient and modern cartographies). Systematizing this mass of information permits the scholar who accesses it not only a more structured knowledge of the object of study, but also an infinitely greater possibility of relating the building studied to other buildings in the area simply by analyzing the relationships that are automatically created within the database.
A relevant example may be the emergence of the Monastery of St. Nicholas in Mesopotam, which presents peculiarities from the points of view of spatial and constructive typology - single hall with narthex, four domes supported by a central column, two apses - and decorative apparatuses both sculptural and pictorial. The study of these features, not yet fully understood historically and culturally, can be facilitated by a comparative tool such as the database under study.
In the future, such a formed relational structure can be the basis for further insights that implement artificial intelligence and machine learning processes in order to automate some steps of the cognitive process. Indeed, we know that, given a quantitatively relevant input data, a classification algorithm can be trained and thus can perform tasks that, if tackled by human operators, would be excessively time-consuming. A classification algorithm could be trained to recognize recurring decorative motifs, spatial proportions that deviate from the trend, structural solutions particularly related to a historical era, etc. This tool, in addition to aiding the construction of more structured knowledge on the specific topic, could be a standard of acquisition-analysis-results applicable to other areas of built heritage
Conoscenza e conservazione degli Statuti di Ferrara del 1173: il contributo delle attuali tecnologie per l’acquisizione e la lettura in rapporto al palinsesto architettonico
No full textIl contributo si concentra sullo studio delle epigrafi murate nel fianco della Cattedrale di Ferrara, riportanti il testo degli statuti cittadini datati 1173. Adriano Franceschini, già nel 1969, capì l'importanza di mettere in relazione la posizione storica degli statuti della Cattedrale con la loro collocazione all'interno del palinsesto architettonico odierno, oggi parzialmente nascosto dalla Loggia dei Merciai. La tecnologia attuale permette di andare in questa direzione. La campagna di rilevamento, che si è concentrata in via sperimentale su passaggi inediti portati alla luce durante i recenti restauri, ha richiesto l'integrazione di due diversi tipi di scanner: a tempo di volo per l'acquisizione a scala architettonica e a luce strutturata per un dettaglio submillimetrico delle superfici - accanto al metodo fotogrammetrico. Nel tentativo di completare la ricostruzione virtuale dell'intero lato con le porzioni rimanenti, è evidente come una precisa localizzazione geometrica dei frammenti consenta una lettura organica degli stessi e del loro rapporto con l'impianto architettonico del XII secolo
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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
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