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City and River: Memory, Myth, Identity [Ciudad y rìo: memoria, mito, identidad]
No full textThis essay analyzes the evolution of the city/river relationship across time focusing on how the identity of the dwelling community precipitates about nuclei of sense such as collective memory and identitarian narrative. By plotting an account of continuities and discontinuities in the relationship between geography and human construction, the text reconstructs the layering of the locus of the city and its river, that is, the inherent sense of the place
Post-Urban Relics in Global Megacity [Relictos post-urbanos en la Megaciudad global]
No full textThe text discusses the role of architecture, and the prospects of its very survival, in a present time when it has been put in question by the disciplinary engagement with the new human condition in the age of geographic expansion of the human settlement and the shifting focus onto many derivative or traditionally ancillary disciplines
Triclini sul mare e rotte culturali
No full textL'articolo tratta dell'evoluzione del concetto di paesaggio lanciando paralleli tra l'antichità e la contemporaneità. Diverse entità paesaggistiche seguono l'evoluzione del pensiero e del dibattito sul paesaggio fino alla recente centralità della 'rotta culturale' nell'azione delle istituzioni internazionali
Rivoluzione e reazione nell'architettura fascista di Predappio
No full textAttraverso l'analisi del caso della fondazione di Predappio Nuova l'articolo determina una divaricazione nella produzione del paesaggio urbano del ventennio: da un lato la produzione che costruisce uno spazio d'uso, dall'altro la produzione che costruisce una scenografia di regime. Aldilà una assoluta condanna ideologica, il saggio introduce criteri per la selezione della parte riutilizzabile del patrimonio materiale
Design a Mountain, a Valley, an Island, a Forested Plain
No full textThe essay focuses on the possibility of a ‘symbiotic landscape’ composed of natural and artificial features in mutual beneficial exchange, where ‘landscape’, as a semantic extension of ‘territory’, refers to a delimited system of tangible and intangible surroundings and also to the cultural construct that contains it
Multiplicity of a Construct
No full textThe chapter argues in favor of a manyfold notion of landscape, and more generally expanded space, in the present. The text explores components and levels of that conceptual and material multiplicity
Regionalist Prospects
No full textThe chapter argues about the regional scale of implementation of the contemporary human development. A vision for a manmade regional platform, for the present and for the future, is the challenge that space designers are to take up
Designing the Symbiotic Field
No full textThe chapter describes a set of design attitudes from selected international authors tackling specific design cases, where sites and problems face contemporary expanded landscape conditions
Pidgin to Creole
No full textDanielle De Niese has just finished her performance as Despina in "Così Fan Tutte" at the New York Metropolitan Opera... true, true... my friend and music connoisseuse Miss O. says that Susanna Phillips, the other soprano and actual primadonna, has a more powerful voice. But De Niese sings the Italian lyrics with a spell -I hardly catch a few words- that transmutes the language into an unknown birdsong flashing plumage all around. A Sri-Lanka Burgher of Dutch descent, she embodies 'the creole' with reference to the linguistic paradigm: the overcoming of the pidgin, a plane displaced fusion of two or more linguistic components consequent to the relocation of European groups along colonial patterns in the ‘new worlds’. The creole, instead, is the language of new natives, generations after that fusion. Not a language one can adopt by will, it is a cultural confluence in which one is born, barring the way to ‘elective belonging’ geopolitical scenarios. Looking more closely, four out of the six characters of the piece have been sung by creole singers. When De Niese sings, though, ‘the creole’ unfolds as an enhanced mode with broader potential than the sum of its generative components. As for Mozart’s opera staging, the recent architecture scene has been shaped by numerous interpreters, who have diffusely re-paradigmed a series of new worlds
Life without Monuments: Non-Metropolitan Spaces in Global Megaregions
No full textThe essay elaborates on the presence en absence of monuments as a relevant condition for our everyday life
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