Divine Water. The rite of "descent" in the Architecture of the Well. Semantic transpositions in the works of Francesco Venezia and Aldo Rossi

The present paper tries to highlight certain characters of the Architecture of Holy Well starting from the Sardinian experience assumed as one of the first excellent signs of the architecture of Rite in the Mediterranean. In the Pagan rites, mostly than into the Roman-Christian subsequent experience...

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Main Author: Adriano Dessì
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Language:English
Published: Festival Architettura Edizioni 2022-02-01
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Online Access:https://www.famagazine.it/index.php/famagazine/article/view/712
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description The present paper tries to highlight certain characters of the Architecture of Holy Well starting from the Sardinian experience assumed as one of the first excellent signs of the architecture of Rite in the Mediterranean. In the Pagan rites, mostly than into the Roman-Christian subsequent experiences, the role of nature, the divination of its resources but also its figurative interpretation, they entered to belong to the idea of space to the point that the Architecture of Well could be considered as the ritual Sardinian Architecture’s crowning point, at least until the Basilica period. So, the paper is to be seen over the track already outlined by a certain Italian culture that sees the architecture as a continuous experience which has his roots int the most archaic spatial manifestations and also sees the rite as the first design form of architecture.
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spelling doaj.art-ceff46901cd745c681129568a47e2e462022-12-22T03:37:52ZengFestival Architettura EdizioniFestival dell'Architettura Magazine2039-04912022-02-01057/58899610.12838/fam/issn2039-0491/n57/58-2021/712295Divine Water. The rite of "descent" in the Architecture of the Well. Semantic transpositions in the works of Francesco Venezia and Aldo RossiAdriano Dessì0Facoltà di Ingegneria e Architettura Università di CagliariThe present paper tries to highlight certain characters of the Architecture of Holy Well starting from the Sardinian experience assumed as one of the first excellent signs of the architecture of Rite in the Mediterranean. In the Pagan rites, mostly than into the Roman-Christian subsequent experiences, the role of nature, the divination of its resources but also its figurative interpretation, they entered to belong to the idea of space to the point that the Architecture of Well could be considered as the ritual Sardinian Architecture’s crowning point, at least until the Basilica period. So, the paper is to be seen over the track already outlined by a certain Italian culture that sees the architecture as a continuous experience which has his roots int the most archaic spatial manifestations and also sees the rite as the first design form of architecture.https://www.famagazine.it/index.php/famagazine/article/view/712templi a pozzopozzo sacroacquaarchetipodiscesa
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Divine Water. The rite of "descent" in the Architecture of the Well. Semantic transpositions in the works of Francesco Venezia and Aldo Rossi
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title Divine Water. The rite of "descent" in the Architecture of the Well. Semantic transpositions in the works of Francesco Venezia and Aldo Rossi
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title_short Divine Water. The rite of "descent" in the Architecture of the Well. Semantic transpositions in the works of Francesco Venezia and Aldo Rossi
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