7 research outputs found
Giovanni Muzio e il progetto per il "Villaggio SAFFA" a Pontenuovo di Magenta (MI), 1954-1962
No full textBetween the 1950s and the 1960s the Società Italiana Fabbriche Fiammiferi e Affini (SAFFA) entrusted the Milanese architect Giovanni Muzio (1893-1982) with the design of some public buildings intended for the working community of the industrial settlement of Pontenuovo di Magenta, in the province of Milan. The initiative, materialized in a small company town, offered Muzio the opportunity to look at similar episodes in Northern Europe, making the village of Pontenuovo an emblematic case of reception of the design culture of Germany, Scandinavia, and the Baltic regions in the Italian context. Through the analysis of archival sources and unpublished documents, the contribution focuses on the genesis of the settlement and on Muzio’s architectures, highlighting the links with possible Nordic and Germanic models and drawing attention to the condition of decay and abandonment in which the settlement has been lying since 2005, when SAFFA ceased its activity
Con gli occhi di D’Annunzio e Berenson: I viaggi paralleli di Anne MacDonell e Carlo Placci nell’Italia di mezzo
No full textAll'inizio del Novecento l'Abruzzo fu la meta di due viaggi paralleli, ma del tutto diversi: uno fu compiuto da Anne MacDonell, scrittrice e traduttrice inglese di vaglia, l'altro coinvolse Carlo Placci, mondano intellettuale e giornalista di fama internazionale. Entrambi lasciarono memoria scritta di quelle esperienze: la prima con un dettagliato resoconto odeporico pubblicato come volume illustrato nel 1908, il secondo con un ben più breve racconto che apparve inizialmente su «Il Marzocco» l’8 luglio 1906 e fu poi incluso due anni dopo nella raccolta In Automobile (1908). Partendo dai punti in comune tra l’autrice e lo scrittore – cronologia e luoghi descritti, contesto e riferimenti culturali a loro disposizione – il contributo intende offrire una prima riflessione su come gli evidenti fattori di diversità tra MacDonell e Placci abbiano influenzato i rispettivi racconti
Through the eyes of D’Annunzio and Berenson: Anne MacDonell’s and Carlo Placci’s parallel journeys through central Italy
No full textAt the beginning of the 20th century, Abruzzo was the destination of two parallel, but completely different journeys: one was undertaken by Anne MacDonell, an English writer and translator of considerable talent, the other involved Carlo Placci, an eminent intellectual and journalist. Both left written memories of their experiences: MacDonell in a detailed periegetic account published as an illustrated volume in 1908, Placci in a much shorter story that first appeared in «Il Marzocco» on 8th July, 1906 and was then included in the collection In Automobile (1908). Starting from the similarities between the two authors – time frame, places described, context and cultural references of the two writers – the contribution intends to offer a reflection on how the differences between MacDonell and Placci influenced their respective narratives.All\u27inizio del Novecento l\u27Abruzzo fu la meta di due viaggi paralleli, ma del tutto diversi: uno fu compiuto da Anne MacDonell, scrittrice e traduttrice inglese di vaglia, l\u27altro coinvolse Carlo Placci, mondano intellettuale e giornalista di fama internazionale. Entrambi lasciarono memoria scritta di quelle esperienze: la prima con un dettagliato resoconto odeporico pubblicato come volume illustrato nel 1908, il secondo con un ben più breve racconto che apparve inizialmente su «Il Marzocco» l’8 luglio 1906 e fu poi incluso due anni dopo nella raccolta In Automobile (1908). Partendo dai punti in comune tra l’autrice e lo scrittore – cronologia e luoghi descritti, contesto e riferimenti culturali a loro disposizione – il contributo intende offrire una prima riflessione su come gli evidenti fattori di diversità tra MacDonell e Placci abbiano influenzato i rispettivi racconti
Cosmology, Faith, Architecture—A Temple under the Sky: The Church of Saint Maximilian Kolbe in Varese
No full textIn my article, I propose a reflection about the Catholic church of Saint Maximilian Kolbe in Varese, Italy, designed by the architect Justus Dahinden at the end of the millennium. Despite the fact that this original sacred space has been imagined by a well-known designer, it still remains a neglected case study. In detail, the present research is about the method by which the architect included the divine element into contemporary architecture and how he facilitated the encounter with the transcendent. The first step focused on the assessment of unpublished materials, such as the architect’s early plan drafts, the executive drawings and the correspondence between the client and the designer. The following study was on Dahinden’s scripts and publications. In the second stage, I analyzed the space under the lens of the hermeneutical approach to highlight the importance of the proven experiences in the building, which is distinguished for its holistic qualities. Furthermore, symbolism plays a relevant role in communicating the evangelical message here, and it seems that Dahinden brought it to the extreme consequence; the entire building, the sequence of its spaces and its details strongly evoke a universal dimension, which pretends to go beyond the dogmatism which marks the traditional religious architecture
Gli anni della formazione di Alvar Aalto e il progetto utopico per la 'Firenze del Nord'
No full textMusei e tecnologie digitali. Possibili viaggi e racconti per una lettura nuova del patrimonio culturale
No full texti musei virtuali sono promotori di possibili viaggi semantici per le opere che vi sono esposte, nell'intervento vengono presentate le potenziali polisemicità del patrimonio culturale anche grazie all'uso di tecnologie digitali
Glomerular filtration rate: A prognostic marker in atrial fibrillation-A subanalysis of the AntiThrombotic Agents Atrial Fibrillation
No full textOBJECTIVE:
An increased cardiovascular mortality and morbidity has been widely reported in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). In this study, a subanalysis of the AntiThrombotic Agents Atrial Fibrillation (ATA-AF) is performed with the aim to evaluate estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) as an independent prognostic marker of cardiovascular mortality and morbidity in patients with AF.
METHODS AND RESULTS:
The ATA-AF study enrolled 7148 patients with AF, in 360 Italian centers. The eGFR was calculated from data reported in patient notes or hospital database. This post-hoc analysis included 1097 AF patients with eGFR data available and 1-year clinical follow-up. The endpoint was assessed as cardiovascular mortality and/or hospital admission for cardiovascular causes at follow-up. Patients were also divided in two groups according to the eGFR (<60 and ≥60 mL/min/1.73 m2 ). The Kaplan-Meyer curve for the mentioned endpoint showed a higher endpoint incidence in the group of patient with eGFR below 60 mL/min/1.73 m2 (P < 0.001). Using multivariate analysis (Cox regression), a trend toward a higher rate of occurrence of the primary endpoint was observed for eGFR below 60 mL/min/1.73 m2 without reaching the conventional level of statistical significance (hazard ratio [HR] 1.40; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.99-1.99; P = 0.0572). When eGFR was included in the analysis as continuous variable a significant correlation was observed with the combined endpoint at the Cox regression (HR 0.99, 95% CI 0.98-0.99, P = 0.04).
CONCLUSION:
The result of this post-hoc analysis indicates that an impaired eGFR is independently associated with worse prognosis among patients with AF
