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Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 presents new perspectives on the role music played in the physical, cultural, and civic spaces of Italian cities from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Across thirteen chapters, contributors explore the complex connections between sound and space within these urban contexts, demonstrating how music and sound were intimately connected to changing social and political practices. The volume offers a critical redefinition of the core concept of soundscape, considering musical practices through the lenses of territory, space, representation, and identity, in five parts: Soundscape, Phonosphere, and Urban History Urban Soundscapes across Time Urban Soundscapes and Acoustic Communities Urban Soundscapes in Literary Sources Reconstructing Urban Soundscapes in the Digital Era Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 reframes our understanding of Italian music history beyond models of patronage, investigating how sounds and musics have contributed to the construction of human identities and communities.
Experiments in architectural education in the post–World War II era that challenged and transformed architectural discourse and practice. In the decades after World War II, new forms of learning transformed architectural education. These radical experiments sought to upend disciplinary foundations and conventional assumptions about the nature of architecture as much as they challenged modernist and colonial norms, decentered building, imagined new roles for the architect, and envisioned participatory forms of practice. Although many of the experimental programs were subsequently abandoned, terminated, or assimilated, they nevertheless helped shape and in some sense define architectural dis...
The illuminating intellectual biography of one of the most controversial Italian figures of the twentieth century.
Questo libro presenta i risultati di un percorso di ricerca collettivo – svolto sotto la guida di Giancarlo Motta e Antonia Pizzigoni prima presso il Politecnico di Milano e poi presso il Politecnico di Torino – che riguarda i rapporti tra progetto di architettura e cartografia. Il libro, che si compone di saggi teorici e di una selezione delle ricerche svolte in un arco di tempo che va dal 1974 al 2014, propone un nuovo genere di dispositivo progettuale: le carte orientate al progetto di architettura. La proposta, che mira ad inserirsi nel dibattito sul ruolo degli elementi geografici nel disegno degli insediamenti, si appoggia sulla natura costruttiva della carta e sulla capacità dell...
"The Ticino Guide covers the area ... from the Swiss canton through upper Lombardy to Milan. An excellent introduction discusses the indigenous architecture." -Progressive Architecture
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