228 research outputs found
In the shadow of the church: the building of mosques in early medieval Syria
No full textIn his book In the Shadow of the Church: The Building of Mosques in Early Medieval Syria Mattia Guidetti examines the establishment of Muslim religious architecture within the Christian context in which it first appeared in the Syrian region, contributing to the debate on the transformation of late antique society to a Muslim one. He scrutinizes the slow process of conversion to Islam of the most important town centers by looking at religious places of both communities between the seventh and the eleventh century. The author assesses the relevancy of churches by analyzing the location of mosques and by researching phenomena of transfer of marble material from churches to mosques
Desiging the Future of the Past. A survey across the contemporary international debate
No full textHow to preserve (or not) what we have inherited is a critical contemporary issue that significantly influences the shaping of a sustainable and desirable future. In a world grappling with the challenge of conserving our cultural heritage for the years to come, the boundaries defining what constitutes heritage have grown increasingly nuanced.
This booklet delves into the ongoing international discourse surrounding the preservation (or not) of the built legacy. By examining how even unacknowledged aspects of our inheritance play an integral role in the broader conversation, this publication offers insights into the evolving perspectives shaping the potential futures of our built legacy.
This volume collects the outcomes of the International Seminar “Designing the Future of the Past,” held on 17-18th February 2022 in Turin. The event was conducted in collaboration with the Doctoral programs in “Architecture: History and Project” and featured the participation of the PhD program in “Architectural and Landscape Heritage” at Politecnico di Torino. This intensive seminar served as an integral component of the DASP PhD Course titled “Designing the Future of the Past” for the academic year 2022-2023
The transformative potential of ruins: A tool for a nonlinear design perspective in adaptive reuse
No full textIn recent years, the heritage preservation debate has seen a growing interest in emerging theories in which the concept of potential plays an essential role. Starting from the assumption that memory is an evolving mental construct, the present paper introduces the concept of “transformative potential” in existing buildings. This novel concept regards the inevitability of loss and the self-destructive potential as part of the transformation of each building. The “transformative potential” is defined here as the relationship between spatial settings and material consistency. This research hypothesizes five “transformative potential” types by analyzing five best-practices adapted ruins in the last 15 years. The analysis integrates quantitative and qualitative research methods: morpholog-ical analysis (dimensional variations, critical redrawing, configuration patterns) and decay stages evaluation (shearing layers analysis, adaptation approaches). The goal is to test the “transformative potential” effectiveness in outlining patterns between specific stages of decay and adaptive design projects. Adaptation projects may actualize this potential in a specific time through incremental and decremental phases, outlining a nonlinear relationship between decay and memory. The study provides insights for future research on adapting existing buildings in a particular decay stage
La collezione entomologica del Museo di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata dell’Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
No full textNegli ultimi anni è nata l'esigenza di creare un database completo delle varie collezioni presenti all'interno del Museo di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata dell?università di Modena e Reggio Emilia in modo da poterne quantificare il reale valore scientifico e storico. Questa esigenza trova risposta oggi nel catalogo della collezione entomologica museale qui propostoche, oltre a puntualizzare lo stato attuale della collezione, si propone anche come base dinamica, suscettibile di aggiornamento e miglioramento, per successive ricerche scientifiche e di carattere storico
Structural adaptations: The role of existing structures in adaptive reuse projects
No full textSession Chair of the Mynisymposium "Structural adaptations: The role of existing structures in adaptive reuse projects
The Potential of Form. Assessing the transformative potential of existing buildings in post-functional Europe
No full textL'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachmen
«Quo nemo insolentius». La ‘superbia’ di Parrasio e l'autoaffermazione dell'artista nella Grecia classica
No full textThrough the analysis of three epigrams attributed to Parrhasius, as well as of further information about this artist found in later authors (Pliny, Athenaeus,
Aelian), the paper tries to reassess the extent of artistic self-representation in classical Greece. The author argues that the epigrams are not a literary falsification: in fact, they fit perfectly into the artistic and philosophical debate of the late 5th cent. BC. Along with other documents preserved in literary sources, the epigrams shed light on the effort made by Greek artists in order to achieve a new social status, better than that of simple ‘manual workers’: Parrhasius represents himself as a refined, educated man, in short as an intellectual; he praises his own achievements in the art of painting, due to a mix of inborn faculties and divine inspiration. The effort of Parrhasius was common to many classical artists, but in the end it proved largely uneffective because of the later predominance of Plato's negative view of art
Tensam non tenuit. Cicerone, Arnobio e il modo di condurre i carri sacri
No full textArnobius nat. 4,31 contains a reference, borrowed from Cicero har. resp. 23, to the tensae, the chariots used in the procession preceding the circus games (pompa circensis) to carry the sacred objects belonging to the statues of the Gods. Both Arnobius’ and Cicero’s passages are corrupt in the manuscript tradition, since the scribes changed the difficult word tensam in the much simpler form terram. Cicero’s text was restored as early as the 16th century by Antonio Agustín, but Arnobius’ was not, since the Christian author has always been thought to have derived his reference from an already corrupt copy of Cicero’s oration. Relying on literary as well as archaeological evidence, the paper argues that the reading terram is illogical and that in the early 4th century, when Arnobius wrote his Adversus nationes, the ancient tensae were still in use for circus processions.
For these reasons neither Arnobius, nor his readers could find the expression terram non tenuit acceptable. The scribal simplification tensam > terram could only take place, in both Cicero’s and Arnobius’ texts, after the word tensam had become no longer understandable, which means not before the 5th century (after the end of pagan processions and cults)
Cetacei del Museo di Zoologia e Anatomia Comparata dell’Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
No full textIl Museo di Zoologia e Anatomia Comparata (MZAC) dell’Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia ha
una vasta collezione storica di vertebrati. Tra questi, pur essendo numericamente pochi, i reperti di cetacei sembrano
avere un importante valore storico. Nel presente articolo viene presentato l’elenco dei reperti storici del MZAC e segnalate le nuove recenti acquisizioni
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