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    [Recensione a]: A. CÓCOLA GANT, El Barrio Gótico de Barcelona. Planificación del Pasado e Imagen de Marca

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    Il volume analizza le vicende urbanistiche e architettoniche dell’antico quartiere del Barrio Gotico di Barcellona, dalla metà dell'Ottocento fino al secolo trascorso. Si tratta di un viaggio appassionato negli ultimi cento anni della storia culturale e architettonica catalana, di cui l’Autore, Agustin Cocola Gant, documenta i passaggi in una sequenza serrata ma estesa, presentando in maniera mirata le diverse tematiche che caratterizzano il periodo analizzato. L'autore ricostruisce l'intero processo di metamorfosi della città spagnola in moderna metropoli, industriale e turistica, contestualizzando le vicende culturali, sociali, politiche e architettoniche.The book analyzes the history and architecture of the ancient urban area of the city of Barcelona, ​​the so-called "Gothic", from the mid-nineteenth century until the last century. The author reconstructs the whole process of metamorphosis of the Spanish city into a modern metropolis, industrial and tourist, contextualizing the events of cultural, social, political and architectural

    Aghios Konstantinos church in Athens. Conservation planning

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    This piece shows the conservation project made for Aghios Konstantinos church, Athens, Greece. Starting from the investigation of the urban development of the city, passing through the study of the architectural grammar of the building and eventually addressing to the material characterisation and pathologies of the church, this work tries to provide a strong analytical support for the conservation intervention. We investigated Athens urban development dividing the timeline in eight phases, from the Ancient Age until now. Aim of this task is to supply a strong understanding of why Aghios Konstantinos church was built in a particular point of the city, and which are its historic and artistic values that need to be preserved and passed on future generations. We narrowed the focus of our investigation lens afterwards. We studied the building concentrating on its architectural grammar. Precisely, the architectural style is both complex and traditional: Kaftantzoglou, the author, tried to merge byzantine elements with classical ones, in a modern eclectic-neo-classical shape. We examined material characterisation and investigation of damage using NORMAL tables, separating different materials and individuating typical pathologies for each of them in the main façade. Atmospheric agents and, mainly, humidity caused most decays. Interventions on the façade were planned strictly respecting minimum interventum, sustainability and reversibility. Finally, a survey of structural damage indoors and outdoors revealed stability problems in the vault, in the arches, and in the pillars below. Although the church was built only in the 19th century, it showed serious structural damages, mainly caused by two strong earthquakes that occurred in 1981 and in 1999. The consolidation project focused on the dome: we planned a Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) hooping around it, calculating the strains on meridians and parallels and, eventually, applying a traction verification

    The Buddhist site of Tokar-Dara 1 (Swāt, Pakistan). Building techniques in the Ancient Gandhāra

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    In recent years the international community has begun to focus on the dangerous state of conservation of Buddhist heritage in the Swat Valley (Pakistan). Not only are these religious complexes abandoned and decaying, they are also subject to attacks and destruction. However local populations and the international community both appear disinterested in this issue. The scope of this study is to contribute to the archaeological history of Swat by adding new data to existing information about the architectural history of Gandhara and its religious buildings. The study, involving a survey and photographic campaign, focused on the Tokar-Dara 1 site in the Swat Valley. It enabled the author to not only identify the different building phases, but also to get a better understand of the masonry, construction techniques, and architectural and typological features of the buildings in the archaeological area. The latter includes a main stūpa, a vihara, a monastery, an assembly hall, and a badly damaged aqueduct and cistern. The architectural remains spread 228 metres to the north and south, and 206 metres to the east and west. The stupa, with a hemispherical dome and upper and lower drums resting on a square podium, was once surrounded by votive stupas completely destroyed by unauthorized diggers. The diaper masonry stupa was originally covered in lime plaster. The drum of the dome measuring 10.67 m in diameter is decorated with cornices framed by vertical stone slabs. The rectangular monastery has two entrances: one to the north leading to the main stūpa, and one to the south leading to the assembly hall. Square-shaped domed cells surround the free side of the cloister. The high walls of a hall used as an assembly room by the Buddhist community are located near the corner of the monastery court. To the east, the remains of a vihara are surrounded by walls on three sides. The relic shrine resting on a square plinth with base moulding is accessed by a flight of steps

    Le ragioni per un convegno

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    Il volume s’inserisce nel filone d’indagine sull’architettura del Novecento attraverso l’approfondimento della figura dell’architetto francese Pierre Vago e della sua attività progettuale. Vago nasce a Budapest, il 30 agosto 1910, e muore in Francia a Noisy-sur-Ecole, il 27 gennaio 2002. Pierre Vago è stato architetto, urbanista, critico dell’architettura, ‘attivista politico’ in àmbito architettonico, fautore d’importanti istituzioni, come l’Unione Internazionale degli Architetti, e fondatore, con André Bloc, della rivista «L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui». I suoi interessi spaziano all’interno di una differenziata operatività che va dall’attività professionale, esplicata in diversi circuiti geografici, alla didattica, tesa alla formazione dei giovani architetti, sino all’elaborazione teorico-concettuale che lo vede protagonista del Movimento Moderno percepito quale fenomeno socio-culturale piuttosto che atteggiamento di rifiuto verso il passato. Testimone di un secolo di avvenimenti, Pierre Vago è stato figura fondante all’interno della cultura architettonica internazionale, non solo come promotore d’iniziative, ma anche per l’esperienza progettuale, soprattutto durante la fase di ricostruzione postbellica di alcune città francesi: Arles, Tarascona e Beaucaire; per gli incarichi internazionali; per i grandi progetti – la struttura religiosa a Lourdes, il santuario delle religioni monoteiste sul Sinai – e non di meno per la sua attività didattica svolta in seno all’Accademia Internazionale di Architettura di Sofia (Bulgaria). Si tratta di una figura sfaccettata, ancora scarsamente indagata, che offre occasione per spunti e riflessioni sul dibattito culturale e architettonico che si sviluppa tra gli anni che precedono la Seconda Guerra Mondiale e si spinge fino agli ultimi decenni del secolo Ventesimo.Il volume, pertanto, approfondisce tali contesti, oltre che le esigenze e le esperienze che hanno determinato una ‘radicale’ e significativa rivoluzione culturale nell’ambito dell’architettura, dell’urbanistica, della tecnologia e della critica architettonica del Novecento; un ‘rinnovamento’ che ha significato anche riconfigurazione degli spazi urbani distrutti durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale, in Francia come in Italia
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