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A Human Restoration
Beginning with the double meaning of the Italian verb "riparare" (to protect and to restore) we compare architecture — which has always had the task of building shelter but which, today, also proposes to restore existing buildings and the urban fabric — with psychiatry, which in its history has claimed to repair the mind of the insane, protecting both the afflicted and society itself through internment. The comparison between architecture and psychiatry is appropriate if one is planning the repurposing of a former mental hospital, and the comparison becomes incredibly pertinent if the asylum in question is the one where, in 1961, the battle for the rights of people with mental disorders ...
Under the Volcano. Warburg’s Legacy
Under the Volcano. Warburg’s Legacy, explores the enduring influence of Aby Warburg’s ideas, likening his intellectual legacy to volcanic activity–continually shaping the landscape of cultural history. If Warburg “was a volcano”, this issue is structured around the metaphorical fissures and lava flows, and is divided into four sections: Unpublished, Rediscovery, Readings, Presentation.
Architecture Form(s) Identity
Architecture form(s) identity. Spaces for the absence of memory is a collection of essays on the theme of memory, its possible loss, weakness, ability to build individual and collective identities, and on the way architecture inserts itself in this process, determining different spaces of reflection. These texts all arise from a common research ground, which saw the editors personally involved in an inter-doctoral Workshop (The Memory as Construction of the Subject. Designing for the Absence of Memory, 2018-19), with a collaboration between Politecnico di Milano (AUID) and the Universidad de Sevilla (HAC) Ph.D. schools, in which the theme of memory and the construction of a more holistic space that dialogues with it was at the center of the design reflection. These contributions, all built around that very rich relationship between memory and architecture, have led to a necessary desire to broaden the horizons and thematic limits reached by the workshop, considering them as a starting point for the collection of different perspectives able to investigate some issues in a more specific way.
Ardeth #12
In the backdrop of the New European Bauhaus, our time presents the European designer with three pivotal keywords: beautiful, sustainable, and together. The central question that this issue of "Ardeth" seeks to address is how to employ these three keywords in the best possible way. In essence, it grapples with the question of how to use but not abuse the checkpoints they provide us with to truly grasp the intricacies of their intended applications. The aim is to prevent hastening the transition from words to designs and, ultimately, from designs to the artefacts that make up the space of our day-to-day human existence.
Architettura dei giocattoli
Engramma213 “L’architettura dei giocattoli” delves into the multifaceted world of the relationship between architecture and toys, in both research and practice-related aspects. It is divided into three sections: the first explores how architects have approached the design of toys in their practice with the essays of Fernanda de Maio (Nel segno di Pinocchio. La Tendenza giocosa e i giocattoli Radical), Maria Stella Bottai and Antonella Sbrilli (Giochi di costruzione e architettura moderna. Due note su Juan Bordes), Guido Morpurgo (Architectus ludens. Giochi di costruzioni/scatole di montaggio), Christian Toson (Kit di montaggio per l’architettura sovietica), Marco Felicioni (Hermann F...
Ardeth #04 (I - Spring 2019)
The range of actions deployed by design professions have seldom entered the debate regarding the relationship between city, rights, and powers. The legitimacy of design actions, though, undergoes the same fragmentation that, in a complementary fashion, questions both the credibility of physical limits in defining what a city is as well as the universal validity of the rights that are spatially defined by such limits. Can the project of architecture transfer a system of general values and rights within a specific action of spatial transformation? Does the project of architecture have the power of dialoguing with the juridical foundation of space? Can the design of space still be the tool through which to reframe narratives, democracy and rights? Is it possible to unhinge the segregated system of rights through the action of the project?
Immagini del pensiero. Omaggio a Franco Rella
The issue of Engramma no. 209 is the outcome of a Seminar held in Venice, on 11 January 2024, on the occasion of what would have been Franco Rella’s eightieth birthday, not to honour his death, but to celebrate the life of his thought; not an “Obituary”, therefore, but a “Festschrift”. The title “Immagini del pensiero” (“Images of Thought”) is borrowed from Franco Rella's important volume published in 1984, Metamorfosi. Immagini del pensiero and responds to this need: to open up the field to a thematich orizon that starts from the object and follows a personal gradient of abstraction, in virtue of the fact that “the word and the image open a way to thought, through things...
Canzoni, preghiere, danze. Psicofenomenologia dei CCCP
The present issue of Engramma (210) analyses the context, scope and aesthetics of the Italian punk group CCCP-Fedeli alla Linea, with the intention of involving scholars from different disciplines in order to outline, within a rigorous scientific framework, a psycho-phenomenology of CCCP as a “symptom” (in the Warburgian sense) and “connector” of a specific historical era. The starting point is the magnificent exhibition “Felicitazioni! CCCP-Fedeli alla linea 1984 -2024” (Reggio Emilia, Chiostri di San Pietro, 12 october 2023-10 march 2024) to which the first section of this issue is dedicated.
Segno e disegno
Engramma 207 investigates the distance between drawing for architecture and drawing for art in the awareness that, although this represents a common medium for human thought activities, there are clear differences with respect to the semantic aspects linked to the sign. These differences are the result of compositional techniques that draw on very different traditions; for example, the way in which the human figure occupies space in a work of painting and the way in which this, conversely, occupies space in an architectural drawing. It was precisely from this example that it seemed necessary to divide this issue in to two sections, one dedicated to Architecture and one to Art.
Praticare la teoria
Che libro è questo? Non è precisamente un libro di testo, non è un manuale, non è alla fine neanche un libro di teoria. Probabilmente è molto di più. Questo è un libro che, adoperando strumentalmente uno sguardo pedagogico (i Laboratori di Teoria del Progetto nei quali insegniamo al Politecnico di Torino, ma anche molte altre esperienze didattiche al di fuori della nostra scuola) e collocandosi dentro un contesto di indagine scientifica (il dottorato di ricerca), cerca di mettere insieme la pratica dell'insegnamento e la teoria del progetto, magari a partire dall'esperienza del fare, vero e proprio baricentro di tutto il volume. Teoria, metodo ed esercizio entrano insieme, con una buona dose di ovvietà e di evidenza, nella riflessione sull'insegnamento, quella che qui chiamiamo, con un poco di compiacimento, la pedagogia della progettazione architettonica. Ne costituiscono i tre cardini essenziali. In fondo, per trasmettere una disciplina (che, come l'architettura, ha in sé sostanza di sapere e anche sostanza di pratica), dobbiamo costruirne o ri-costruirne una teoria, definirne un metodo, addestrare e addestrarci al suo esercizio.
