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IL CROLLO DELLE VOLTE DEL REFETTORIO DEL MONASTERO DI SANTA CHIARA A NOTO (1555) E LA COMPLESSA GENESI DELLA VOLTA A SPIGOLO IN PIETRA NELLA SICILIA ORIENTALE
No full textThe collapse of the vaults of the refectory of Santa Chiara in ancient Noto (autumn 1555?), immediately after its construction, opens up a range of questions, some of which can be explained by reading the documentation, the terms used in the contracts and examining the rare surviving evidence of 16th-century royal roofing in the Val di Noto. The essay shows how what appears to have been an unsuccessful experiment became the basis for research and new local solutions that over two generations would come to define shared and replicable models
Architettura “cannibale” : nuovi progetti e lacerti di distruzioni
No full textThe essay focuses on a list of architectures that preserve and sometimes flaunt parts of previous buildings, destined for demolition.
This text explore different motivations and practices that can justify them preservation. Even if the randomness of the events directs
towards responses that take into account unexpected economic difficulties, a persistent scepticism towards harmony and
completeness emerges in many histories, as well as intriguing symbolic components
Storia dell'Architettura in Sicilia (XV-XVIII secolo). Un percorso didattico
No full textIl volume propone una storia dell’architettura in Sicilia aggiornata e in controtendenza, per allievi, ma non solo, fuori dai luoghi comuni e dagli stereotipi. Alla fine del testo sono contemplate schede sulle opere siciliane più significative. La finalità di questo lavoro è soprattutto didattica e possiede una componente interattiva (offrendo al lettore la possibilità di aggiungere notizie, osservazioni, disegni e immagini), mentre il racconto cronologico a grandi falcate è preceduto da un nucleo di riflessioni trasversali. L’idea è quella di un libro dove il lettore sia continuamente costretto a riprendere e riannodare le tre parti di cui è composto e invogliato a compiere ulteriori ricerche e approfondimenti all’esterno del testo stesso. In realtà questo lavoro è frutto della rielaborazione sintetica di saggi, di lezioni, di studi e di appunti elaborati e raccolti durante un ventennio;è pensato per un lettore tipo: diciamo uno studente universitario, ma non si esclude del tutto l’evenienza che possa risultare utile a chi fosse generalmente interessato alpatrimonio architettonico monumentale dell’isola
La volta della Sala dei Baroni di Castel Nuovo a Napoli
No full textThe essay re-examines the historiographical issue that in Italy still involves the vault of the Sala dei Baroni of the Castel Nuovo in Naples. The construction process that led to the realization of one of the largest stone vaults of the fifteenth century is investigated through the existing documentary sources and answers are offered on practices and methods (especially for saving wooden scaffolding) used by the team of masters led by Guillem Sagrera
Tra due autunni. Storia dell’architettura in Sicilia dal tardogotico al tardobarocco (XV-XVIII secolo)
No full textThe history of architecture in Sicily in the early modern age is re-read from a geographical point of view. The conventions, the forms (even symbolic ones), the progress of the construction world are interpreted from an eccentric point of vie
Architettura a Palermo nel primo Cinquecento: la complessa genesi della chiesa di Santa Maria della Catena e di altri cantieri coevi
No full textThe identification of some anomalies in the interior of the sixteenth-century church of Santa Maria della Catena in Palermo suggests the possibility of a reinterpretation of the construction process and the identification of a change of design at the end of the second decade of the sixteenth century. The sequence of documentary data that has emerged so far and the comparison with some contemporary church buildings (where sudden changes in the program in the elevations are often a rule) bring out the lively multilingualism prevailing in the city in this phase and the debates that derive from it. At the same time, the entrepreneurial protagonism (not without competitors) of the master Antonio Belguardo stands out in the pursuit of a third way, an alternative to the Gothic-Renaissance combination, identifying in the local past and above all in the architecture of the Norman Kingdom of the twelfth century the models to be imitated
MUTAZIONI IN CORSA: L’AVVENTURA DELLA COSTRUZIONE DI UNA FACCIATA DEL SETTECENTO. LA CHIESA DI SAN GIOVANNI A VIZZINI
No full textA series of documents helps to define the history of the genesis of an eighteenth-century church façade in Sicily: the church of
San Giovanni in Vizzini. The history reveals a constant change of intentions and an empirical approach where, without necessarily
proceeding to demolish the already built, the project is subjected to continuous revisions and additions. The process therefore
reveals a radical alternative to the idea of an orderly succession between drawing and execution
I disegni di Rosario Gagliardi conservati presso il Dipartimento di Architettura di Palermo
No full textThe Department of Architecture of Palermo keeps some drawings related to the activity of one of the greatest architects to have worked in Sicily in the eighteenth century: Rosario Gagliardi (Syracuse, ca. 1690-Noto, 1762). The importance of the small corpus - coming from a collection already constituted in the 18th century (the Mazza Collection) - is also linked to the fact that the drawings include famous edifices of Sicilian Baroque architecture: from the cathedral of San Giorgio in Ragusa to the churches of Santa Chiara and San Domenico in Noto. The thorough examination of the drawings offers the opportunity for a more general reflection on the characteristics of architectural design in eighteenth-century Sicily. An overall picture emerges where the methods and techniques that guide representation become a distinctive tool and take on a decisive role within his professional career
Stefano Ittar architetto "romano" e il progetto per la chiesa dell'Annunziata a Paternò
No full textThe investigation of a nineteenth-century drawing relating to the bell tower facade of the Annunziata church in Paternò offers the opportunity to reconstruct the biography of the Polish architect Stefano Ittar, involved in the construction of the church since 1768. The contribution examines the methods of entry and of Ittar's affirmation on the Sicilian scene by evaluating the alleged declaration of "Romanity" that accompanies his professional figure starting from the documentary data, punctually denied by his architecture and his design choices
Le cupole in pietra a vista nel primo Cinquecento in Sicilia
No full textThe essay deals with the birth and the series changes relating to the construction of stone domes set on chapels in Sicily in the early sixteenth century. The selected examples and the solutions put in place by architects and builders of the time show a surprising and modern intertwining of languages, between Gothic, Renaissance and ancient local, and reveal the reasons for choices that contain an ideological component or a design and construction practice, facilitated by contracts by analogy
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