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Il potenziale formativo del premio. La costruzione dell’architettura alpina contemporanea
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The making of Alpine Architecture. Media, awards and exhibitions in Vorarlberg and Grisons
No full textArchitecture as a Convivial Tool
Full text linkStarting from Ivan Illich’s concept of conviviality, which challenges the excess of consumption and the mass industrial production of goods and services of contemporary society, this paper analyses three projects of the French practice BAST. Particularly, through a triangulation with Illich’s theories, the paper highlights their potential to produce use-values. The case studies (an apartment, a restaurant, and a community hall) are interventions on existing buildings characterised by a sensitive approach focused on care, repair, and reuse. By foregrounding specific design actions employed by BAST alongside Illich’s theoretical framework, this study aims to identify generalisable and transferable strategies that can enable architectural practice to produce use-values and thus act as a convivial tool, addressing the fragilities of our contemporary world
Criticism goes social: exploring public architectural criticism through architecture awards
Full text linkThis paper investigates the evolving landscape of architectural criticism in the digital era, leveraging the enduring interplay between architecture and media. It specifically examines the role of social media and public awards in improving user engagement with architectural discourse.
A mixed-method approach, incorporating both qualitative and quantitative analyses, is used to discuss three architecture awards. These are chosen for their different evaluation processes and their capacity to offer diverse opportunities for public interaction and engagement.
The study emphasises the potential of social media to democratise architectural criticism, while also addressing challenges such as the prominence of non-critical visual material and the presence of algorithmic biases. The findings underline the importance of providing adequate materials for public evaluation and integrating expert juries to support the assessment process. These elements are essential to fostering informed public participation, bridging the gap between professional expertise and popular engagement, and enabling meaningful architectural discourse on social media.
This paper fills a gap in the academic literature by connecting public architectural awards, a relatively unexplored aspect of architectural culture, with the potential of social media as a platform for architectural criticism
L’architettura per la produzione nelle Alpi / Architecture for production in the Alps
Full text linkProduction buildings and infrastructures, being the man-made marks left on the Alpine
landscape, have historically had a different value than they have today. For a
short period during modernity, they were used as advertising elements to represent
the progress of Alpine territories and were later ignored by the architectural discourse,
which failed to understand their cultural, environmental and ecological values.
These buildings were often the subject of that “spatial separation” between the
energy production and the energy consumption areas which contributed, even in
the Alpine territory, to the construction of industrial areas devoid of any character or
attractiveness.
It is only since the end of the last century that the growing environmental, social,
cultural, and political awareness, as well as the emergence of major environmental
and climate crises have contributed to the realisation that the quality architectural
project is of fundamental importance in the construction of industrial and productive
buildings.
After a brief introduction, the article illustrates some examples of contemporary architecture
for production in the Alps, arranged functionally. There are agricultural
buildings, small workshops, facilities for the production and distribution of electrical
and thermal energy, waste treatment plants, and office buildings
Comprendere l’architettura alpina contemporanea. Il ruolo di premi, mostre e media nella costruzione di una cultura e un immaginario architettonico
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Alpine iconodulia
Full text linkAt the end of the Eighties the global recognition of Alpine architecture coincided with a profound shift in architectural media, particularly journalism. Photographic images played an increasing role in the reproduction of architecture in journals. In this overview, the important position of some sacred works is discussed, as they competed for the covers of renowned magazines, ultimately becoming icons of the new Alpine architecture. The article analyses the reasons behind this success by studying three emblematic cases in the Central Alps: the Chapels Sogn Benedetg by Peter Zumthor, St. Nepomuk by Christian Kerez in the Graubünden, and the Salgenreute Chapel by Bernardo Bader in Vorarlberg
Architectural Criticism and Cultural Promotion. Contemporary Alpine Architecture (1987-2022)
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