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Past forward
This book is born from the will to undertake a joint research path on the general theme of transformation and renewal of urban contexts, deepening the case of historical Chinese and Italian cities. The research collected case studies and theoretical elaborations, focusing on the Chinese city of Shanghai and Chongqing and other Italian urban realities, filtering contents around thematic nodes such as memory, narration and reflection on new urban models. In particular, the initial idea emerged from shared reflections between Chinese and Italian scientific professors responsible for international agreements established between the Department of Architecture and the Design of Sapienza University...
L'architettura italiana per la città cinese
Sin dalla loro nascita, le Esposizioni Universali sono state lo specchio della visione di progresso del sistema economico mondiale. In origine, tale obiettivo veniva esplicitato attraverso rappresentazioni tese a celebrare la capacità dell'ingegno umano nel superare ogni vincolo che la natura gli poneva di fronte. L'Esposizione cinese è stata la più straordinaria mai realizzata sull'urbanizzazione, e ha lanciato al mondo, Italia compresa, una sfida cruciale: quale modello di città si può immaginare in un prossimo futuro? L'Italia ha colto questa sfida interpretando un Padiglione che sa di "città del futuro", intitolato "La città dell'uomo", in cui l'uomo torna ad essere protagonista, ...
Honoring God and the City
This is a history of musical activities at Venetian lay confraternities. The book traces musical practices from the origins of the earliest confraternities in the mid-13th century through their suppression under the French and Austrian governments of Venice in the early-19th century.
Jesuit Civil Wars
Founded in 1540, the Society of Jesus quickly established itself as one of the most dynamic, influential but divisive orders within early-modern Catholicism. Yet whilst the order's role in combating Protestantism, reforming the Catholic Church and advising rulers during its first century has been well documented, much less is understood about its later years. Covering the generalate of Tirso González (1687-1705), this book offers a window onto Jesuit politics and theology during the late seventeenth century. González's generalate was dominated by two crises - one political, the other theological - both of which were to have important ramifications for the Jesuits and the wider Catholic wor...
Buildings for Education
This open access book presents theoretical and practical research relating to the vast, publicly financed program for the construction of new schools and the reorganization of existing educational buildings in Italy. This transformative process aims to give old buildings a fresh identity, to ensure that facilities are compliant with the new educational and teaching models, and to improve both energy efficiency and structural safety with respect to seismic activity. The book is divided into three sections, the first of which focuses on the social role of the school as a civic building that can serve the needs of the community. Innovations in both design and construction processes are then ana...
Durban, a Cogent African City
The city of Durban is one of the most intriguing for architects and urban designers, due to its cultural and economic diversity on one the hand and its political evolution since its colonial formalisation, apartheid influences and its post-apartheid evolution, on the other. It is a city that expresses complex narratives in architectural form and expression, seemingly chaotic, yet within and upon a cogent overall structure. Perhaps, it is that very cogency in urban structure which facilitated its complex evolution, or perhaps not. This paradox forms the crux of the studies and applied research part of this book, and which defined the sites of focus for a collaborative studio workshop. Durban ...
DiAP nel mondo | DiAP in the world – International Vision | Visioni internazionali
International openness is one of the fundamental characteristics of the DiAP Department of Architecture and Design, which sees its members active in 57 bilateral collaboration agreements (without counting the Erasmus agreements) with countries in which today there is a demand for architectural design that looks at Italy as a model, not only for studies of historical architecture, but also for contemporary architecture designed in the existing city and for the new building, including complex landscape and environmental systems.
Itinerari italiani
L'attuale condizione globale sollecita una riflessione rinnovata sull'identità locale e specifica del nostro Paese. Questo libro raccoglie un'ampia selezione di progetti di residenze collettive realizzate in Italia negli ultimi trent'anni, con lo scopo di rileggere questa esperienza italiana alla luce dei profondi cambiamenti che la nostra epoca ha attraversato e sta ancora attraversando. L'insieme strutturato come un ideale viaggio in Italia propone quattro itinerari definiti dalle questioni che i progetti riuniti in altrettanti raggruppamenti hanno in comune tra loro. Questioni anch'esse specifiche e fortemente legate ai caratteri identitari della cultura architettonica italiana la quale, pur risentendo inevitabilmente delle sollecitazioni internazionali, si propone ancora nel suo insieme di grande interesse per gli studi e le ricerche sull'architettura.
Milano verde
Il libro presenta la lettura e il ridisegno del piano urbano per la zona Sempione Fiera detto “Milano verde” progettato da Franco Albini, Ignazio Gardella, Giulio Minoletti, Giuseppe Pagano, Giancarlo Palanti, Giacomo Predaval, Giovanni Romano. Si tratta di uno studio condotto attraverso documenti scritti e elaborati grafici originali che affronta un piano urbano così significativo per la cultura architettonica e urbana del nostro Paese, ma non solo. Il libro vuole anche essere l'occasione per una riflessione sulla possibilità dell'architettura di formulare ipotesi e soluzioni per costruire la città contemporanea, nonché un riconoscimento alla nostra storia urbana e agli architetti c...
