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Heteronomy of architecture: Un Dialogo di/A Dialogue of Matteo Ruta con/with Benedetta Tagliabue
No full textI’m not calling today about the competition we are holding for Reinventing Cities here in Lambrate - I am calling to ask you if you would like it if we had a dialogue together on the Heteronomy of Architecture.
Benedetta Tagliabue: Hello Matteo! Don’t even talk about it, everything is so sad. You know just how important it is for me to travel and meet people all the time... in person.
Dialogue? Absolutely! But... what is this “heteronomy”? You don’t mean it’s something that excludes someone? You know I don’t like it...
M.R. Come on, we’ve known each other for years! Look, it’s exactly the opposite. A very interesting concept which Giancarlo De Carlo summed up well in a sentence I am going to read to you. «As you can tell as you listen, one cannot help but think of your way of knowing, investigating and reading the places and cities in which you design. It is also impossible not to think of how you live together with others, and how this has always been the way you live architecture on a daily basis, and how you know how to transmit it and build it together with all the people you meet: collaborators, citizens, users, clients, politicians, artists, producers of materials, craftsmen, friends, etc. [...]».
B.T. Oh well... I was actually joking a bit, you know it amuses me. I remembered this idea of Giancarlo’s from when I was studying at the Faculty of Architecture in Venice, and I was struck by his strength and energy in knowing how to interpret it at its best and translate it into splendid practice on many occasions.
Thank you also for your kind words, it was so kind of you to have thought of me. It certainly is an interesting theme to delve into in a monographic issue of a magazine, and I would like to congratulate those who thought of it.
So... Yes, I like it: let’s dialogue!
You already know that we’ll have to talk again a few times.
M.R. Of course I know... it’s always a great pleasure
Le necropoli
No full textVengono presentati i tratti salienti delle pratiche funerarie del centro patavino e la distribuzione e l'organizzazione delle sue necropoli durante l'età del Ferr
PLOT #450 in Beirut by Bernard Khoury/DW5
No full textBernard Khoury è un progettista di fama
internazionale, divenuto celebre anche all’estero
soprattutto a partire dal 1998 con il noto
intervento di recupero di un bunker per realizzare la
discoteca B018 sita nella zona di Quarantine. È tra coloro
i quali hanno scelto di non lasciare il Paese, preferendo
da anni rimanere a lavorare a Beirut, contribuendo con
le sue opere a dare una lettura alternativa, rispetto alle
logiche prevalenti che la stanno contraddistinguendo,
alla ennesima ricostruzione di questa antica e complessa
città millenaria. Nel suo libro “Local Heroes” pubblicato
nel 2014, racconta in modo originale, anche attraverso
molti aneddoti, la storia e la genesi dei suoi progetti, e di
Beirut più in generale, facendo emergere una lettura che
permette di comprendere un po’ di più la complessità
della città e ben evidenziando il ruolo di questi “eroi”,
architetti ma non solo, “...fieri romantici che resistono
senza paura al cinismo...”.
Il progetto della torre Plot # 450 è, in tal senso,
una di queste storie di “resistenza”, nel suo essere
dichiaratamente nata seguendo “criteri non
necessariamente in linea con gli attuali dibattiti
internazionali dominanti sugli edifici alti vetrati, essendo
invece il prodotto di un voluto radicalismo regionale e
culturale”. Essa è oggi forse ancora più emblematica,
anche perché si trova a meno di 800 m di distanza da
quel capannone portuale da cui è partita l’esplosione
del 4 agosto 2020 che, per l’ennesima volta, porterà a
una modifica e ricostruzione di questa affascinante e
tormentata città
L’insula del Don Chisciotte. Atti del XXIII Congresso dell’Associazione Ispanisti Italiani, a cura di M. C. Ruta e L. Silvestri,
No full textScirtes flavohumeralis Ruta, 2008, sp. nov.
No full textScirtes flavohumeralis sp. nov. (Figs. 44–51) Type material (7 males, 13 females). Holotype, male. “ SEYCHELLEN: 16.- 30.5. / Mahé, Ostküste / Anse au[x] Pins / 1996, leg. Schödl (1)” (printed label), “ HOLOTYPE / Scirtes flavohumeralis sp. n. / des. Rafał Ruta 2008 ” (red label, printed). Deposited in NMW. Paratypes. 1 female: “ SEYCHELLES / Mahe, iv. 1976. / G. G. Kibby / B. M. 1976 - 237.” (printed label), “ Scirtes seychellensis / G. KIBBY / Det. 1976 ” (handwritten/ printed label), “ PARATYPUS / Scirtes flavohumeralis sp. n. / des. Rafał Ruta 2008 ” (red label, printed). Deposited in NHM. 3 males: “ SEYCHELLEN: 16.- 30.5. / Mahé, Ostküste / Anse au[x] Pins / 1996, leg. Schödl (1)” (printed label), “ PARATYPUS / Scirtes flavohumeralis sp. n. / des. Rafał Ruta 2008 ” (red label, printed). Deposited in NMW. 1 male, 3 females: “ SEYCH., Mahé, 1992 / Anse aux Pins / 19.12., Malicky” (printed label), “Mangrove” (printed label), “ PARATYPUS / Scirtes flavohumeralis sp. n. / des. Rafał Ruta 2008 ” (red label, printed). Deposited in NMW. 3 females: “ SEYCHELLES: Silhouette / Grande Barbe / 15.03. 2002 / leg. J. Gerlach” (printed label), “ PARATYPUS / Scirtes flavohumeralis sp. n. / des. Rafał Ruta 2008 ” (red label, printed). Deposited in NMW. 2 females: “ SEYCHELLES / Silhouette, Grande Barbe / 16.3. 2002 / leg. J. Gerlach” (printed label), “ PARATYPUS / Scirtes flavohumeralis sp. n. / des. Rafał Ruta 2008 ” (red label, printed). Deposited in NMW and CUMZ. 1 female: “ SEYCH., Mahé, 1992 / Riv. du Cap / 10.12., Malicky” (printed label), “ PARATYPUS / Scirtes flavohumeralis sp. n. / des. Rafał Ruta 2008 ” (red label, printed). Deposited in NMW. 1 female: “ Seychelles, Praslin, / Anse Lazio, lagune / 5 m, 4.4. 2007, / leg. Wewalka (4)” (printed label), “ PARATYPUS / Scirtes flavohumeralis sp. n. / des. Rafał Ruta 2008 ” red label, printed. Deposited in NMW. 1 female (damaged: head and pronotum missing): “ SEYCHELLES: Grande Soeur / 22.03. 2002 / leg. J. Gerlach” (printed label), “ PARATYPUS / Scirtes flavohumeralis sp. n. / des. Rafał Ruta 2008 ” (red label, printed). Female, Deposited in NMW. 1 male: “ SEYCHELLES: Mahé Is. / Grand Police Bay. / 22.vii. 1996. Sweeping. / OU Seychelles Expedition 1996 / OUMNH- 2002 -007” (printed label), “ Scirtes seychellensis / Det. M. Jäch 2005.” (printed label), “ PARATYPUS / Scirtes flavohumeralis sp. n. / des. Rafał Ruta 2008 ” (red label, printed). Deposited in OUMNH. 1 male, 1 female: “ SEYCHELLES: La Digue Is. / La Digue Veuve Reserve. / La Mare Soupape wetland. / 16-18.viii. 1996. Hand collecting. / OU Seychelles Expedition 1996 / OUMNH 2002 -007” (printed label), “ Scirtes seychellensis / Det. M. Jäch 2005.” (printed label), “ PARATYPUS / Scirtes flavohumeralis sp. n. / des. Rafał Ruta 2008 ” (red label, printed). Deposited in OUMNH. Diagnosis. Fully pigmented adults with yellowish humeral area, remaining portion of elytra brownish. Females with oval, oblique depressions at apices of elytra. Several externally similar species occur in SE Asia. Certain identification is possible only on the basis of the morphology of male and female genitalia (strongly modified aedeagus; ring-shaped bursal sclerite). Description. Holotype, male. Measurements: TL 1.95, EW 1.35, EL 1.68, PW 1.0, PL 0.38, HW 0.65, HL 0.28, interocular space 0.4, greatest depth of body 0.6. Body oval, flattened, and covered with yellowish hairs. Head, pronotum and scutellum yellowish, elytra brownish, with lighter, yellowish basal portion and humeri, ventrum light, yellowish. Legs yellowish, antennae yellowish, slightly darkened apically. Body 1.44 times as long as broad. Head 2.36 times as broad as long, 1.63 times wider than interocular space, with subtle punctures separated by 0.5–0.7 diameter, eyes moderately protuberant. Antennae filiform, antennomere 1 and 2 wider than remaining ones, cylindrical, antennomere 3 shortest, antennomere 4 longest; length ratios of antennomeres 2.67: 2.0: 1.0: 2.0: 2.67: 2.67: 2.67: 2.67: 2.67: 2.67: 3.33; L/W ratio of antennomeres 1.33, 1.2, 1.5, 1.5, 2.0, 2.0, 2.0, 2.0, 2.0, 2.0, 2.5. Clypeus transverse, with rounded anterolateral angles and somewhat explanate lateral edges. Labrum very small, with rounded anterior angles, partly hidden under clypeus. Mandibles with explanate and tapered apices, without mesal denticles. Pronotum small, transverse, 2.67 times as broad as long, widest at posterior angles. Pronotum with subtle but dense punctation similar to that of head, punctures separated by a single diameter. Posterior margin of pronotum bisinuate. Anterior angles slightly explanate. Scutellum subtriangular, punctation similar to that on pronotum. Elytra oval, without longitudinal ridges, 1.24 times as long as broad and 4.47 times as long as pronotum. Sides rounded in posterior third, regularly converging to apex. Humeri evident. Punctures evenly larger than those of head and pronotum, distance between punctures = 0.5 diameter. Epipleura wide at base, abruptly narrowed near ventrite 1, reduced in apical portion. Hind wings fully developed. Prosternal process elongate, laminar, forming a sharp ridge. Mesocoxae separated by an extremely narrow and long process with subparallel sides (ca. 6 times as long as wide), metaventral discrimen present in posterior 3 / 4. Metacoxae touching one another. Last ventrite with shallow subtriangular emargination. Ventrite 2 with a few larger punctures along mesal portion of anterior margin, last ventrite with 2 small teeth in posterior area. Ratios of ventrites’ lengths: 1.0: 1.5: 1.5: 1.5: 1.8. Metafemora enlarged, ca. 5 times broader than metatibia. Metatibial spurs present, longer as long as 0.7 length of 1 st tarsomere, slightly curved. Shorter spur slightly curved, as long as 0.3 length of tarsomere 1 and 0.4 length of longer spur. Male genitalia. Aedeagus (L 0.68, W 0.38) strongly modified, in the form of ring with 4 tempered projections; sternite 9 small (L 0.2, W 0.15), Y-shaped, with long setation on apices; tergite 8 (L 0.28, W 0.23) with short apodemes and row of setae on apex; tergite 9 (L 0.24, W 0.15) with relatively long apodemes and setae on apex. Female. Apical portion of elytra modified, with oblique, elongate-oval depressions. Prehensor (L 0.35) tubular, short; bursal sclerite (L 0.08, W 0.13) ring-shaped, with small projection pointed inwards; ovipositor long (L 2.0); terminal segments long: sternite 8 L 0.55, tergite 8 L 1.15. Variability. Total length of males 1.7-2.1 (mean 1.96, n= 7), total length of females 1.95–2.2 (mean 2.04, n= 11). Body varies from uniformly yellow with poorly visible lighter humeri to brownish with clearly visible and contrasting light-yellow humeral region. Name derivation. Referring to lightened humeri of the typical form. Remarks. Modifications of the elytral apices in females of Scirtidae were described for the first time by Champion (1897) and the analogy to the similar (although present in males) structures in Melyridae: Malachiinae was immediately noticed. Champion (1918) described modifications (foveae or excavations) in the genera Scirtes Illiger, 1807, Ora Clark, 1865 and Cyphon Paykull, 1799. The use of the term “excitator” is proposed here (by analogy to the name of similar structures in Malachiinae) to designate the modifications of the elytra in females of the family Scirtidae. The function of the excitators is presently unknown, although observations on mating behaviour of Cyphon coarctatus Paykull, 1799 suggest that modified adscutellar areas of elytra in this species play a role in stimulation of male before copulation (Nyholm 1972). It seems highly probable that modified portions of elytra secrete sexual pheromones.Published as part of Ruta, Rafal, 2008, Contribution to the knowledge of Seychellois Scirtidae (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea), pp. 49-68 in Zootaxa 1913 on pages 61-64, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18455
Calvariopsis Ruta 2019
No full textCalvariopsis sp., female, French Guiana (Figs 2E, 4 D–E, 27J) Material examined. 3 females (MNHG): “ Guyane Francaise \ Mont Grand Matoury \ 2.– 11.10.1995 \ M. Kocian lgt.”. Notes on morphology. Body very small (TL 1.90–1.95 mm), brownish black, elytra without modifications. Gonocoxites moderately wide, subtriangular, with subapical gonostyli (Fig. 27J). Bursal sclerite in form of elongated plate, poorly preserved in the specimens studied. Remarks. These are females of either C. bituberculata sp. nov. or C. kawense sp. nov. As both species are sympatric and very similar externally, it is impossible to assign females to any of the two species. Undoubtedly a member of group II.Published as part of Ruta, Rafał, 2019, Calvariopsis gen. nov., a new genus of Neotropical Scirtidae (Coleoptera: Scirtoidea), pp. 1-41 in Zootaxa 4604 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4604.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/278367
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