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A Survey on Daylighting Education in Italian Universities. Knowledge of Standards, Metrics and Simulation Tools
Published 2021-01-01“…DAYKE-Europe was replicated as DAYKE-Italy to study the knowledge of daylight standards, metrics and software among Italian architecture students, and to compare it to that observed within DAYKE-Europe. …”
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Italy, 1000-1400
Published 2019“…This chapter - part of a two-volume work about architectural history - covers Italian architecture from 1000 BCE to 1400 BCE. Political, economic and military influence was exercised on the Italian Peninsula, at one time or other, by the Holy Roman Empire and the House of Hohenstaufen, the Normans, the Lombard and Tuscan city-states, the Papal States, the Kingdom of Sicily, the ever-weakening Byzantine Empire and the gradually retreating Saracens. …”
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Continuity and Discontinuity in Casabella and Spazio. The 1950's architecture magazines directed by Luigi Moretti and Ernesto Nathan Rogers
Published 2016-05-01“…It also provides relevant insight into the tools architecture uses to communicate, the text-image relationship, and how architecture relates to other artistic disciplines and history itself. In Italian architectural circles, Luigi Moretti and Ernesto Nathan Rogers are acknowledged masters, embodying the capacity to reformulate and articulate a new kind of architectural education. …”
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The avant-garde in the architecture and visual arts of Post-Revolutionary Mexico
Published 2012-10-01“…Commenting on an exhibition of contemporary Mexican architecture in Rome in 1957, the polemic and highly influential Italian architectural critic and historian, Bruno Zevi, ridiculed Mexican modernism for combining Pre-Columbian motifs with modern architecture. …”
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The knotting morphological phenomenon. Interpretation of the palaces for politics forming process in Italy
Published 2019-12-01“…In Italy this phenomenon is quite evident in the formation of new building types for public services, as in the case of the large post offices obtained by transforming existing buildings and then designed ex novo with the knotting idea, giving rise to some of the most important architecture of modern Italian architecture The phenomenon is particularly evident in the formation of the different palaces of the Chamber of Deputies in Turin, Florence and Rome. …”
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Sobre o desenho e design
Published 2001-12-01“…Since 1965 the italian architectural and urban historian Giulio Cario Argan, in a similar vein, remarked the increasing dissolution between the subjecfs individuality and the objectivity of things - in such a relationship that he saw and described as a “tearing process” More recently, in 1992, the philosopher Vilém Flusser synthesized part of his theory on design by mentioning the “destructive aspects” of design activity. …”
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Sobre o desenho e design
Published 2001-12-01“…Since 1965 the italian architectural and urban historian Giulio Cario Argan, in a similar vein, remarked the increasing dissolution between the subjecfs individuality and the objectivity of things - in such a relationship that he saw and described as a “tearing process” More recently, in 1992, the philosopher Vilém Flusser synthesized part of his theory on design by mentioning the “destructive aspects” of design activity. …”
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URBAN-RURAL: “TIBURTINO” DISTRICT IN ROME AND RURAL VILLAGE “LA MARTELLA” IN MATERA AS EMBLEMATIC CASES OF SETTLEMENTS DURING THE ITALIAN RECONSTRUCTION
Published 2020-07-01“…In this sense, the trend of Italian Architectural Neorealism constitutes an event and an experience of great interest. …”
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Mercato dei Fiori in Pescia (1948-1951): Design Inventiveness and Constructional Experimentation in Italy after the Second World War
Published 2023-02-01“…This was the key to the successful combination of structural boldness and formal originality that made this building a case study in post-war Italian architecture and also earned it international fame. …”
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Commercio e cittadinanza nei quartieri 167 italiani. Alcune note di ricerca
Published 2022-09-01“…Unlike several international experiences of the time in the field of urban design, Italian architectural and urban cultures struggled to recognize in the emerging mass consumption the possible foundation of new forms of sociality and citizenship.…”
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L’imminenza del "doppio”. Opere e allestimenti di Edoardo Persico / The imminence of the “double”. Edoardo Persico’s works and displays
Published 2016-12-01“…In these he shows a rational simplicity, which doesn’t constitute the implementation of an esprit de géométrie dryly calculating, but the development of an esprit de fi nesse which results in an implicit contrast with the propaganda awarded in those years by the fascist regime to Italian architecture. His last work was the Hall of Honor at the VI Triennale (1936) – still designed with Nizzoli, Giancarlo Palanti and Lucio Fontana –, Persico didn’t have time to see realized, in whose luminous silence culminates a vision of forms in tune with life and a feeling of sociability ruled by egalitarian ideals, but which reveals also a metaphysical ground, a “double” he never ceased to pursue.…”
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The architecture of differences
Published 2021-05-01“…Following in the footsteps of the protagonists of the Italian architectural debate is a mark of culture and proactivity. …”
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Architecture between heteronomy and self-generation
Published 2021-05-01“…Vittorio Garatti (Milan, April 6, 1927) is certainly one of the last witnesses of one “heroic” season of Italian architecture. In 1957 he graduated in architecture from the Polytechnic of Milan with a thesis proposing the redesign of a portion of the historic centre of Milan: the area between “piazza della Scala”, “via Broletto”, “via Filodrammatici” and the gardens of the former Olivetti building in via Clerici. …”
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