J.W.P. Campbell (Eds), Proceedings of the sixth conference on the Construction History Society CHS, Water, Doors and Buildings. Studies in the History of Construction, Queen’s College, Cambridge, 2019
Water is at the same time an ally and insidious enemy of military architecture. When the city of ... more Water is at the same time an ally and insidious enemy of military architecture. When the city of Alessandria was chosen, around 1725, to become one of the main fortresses in the Kingdom of Sardinia, complex problems had to be faced for the construction of a new citadel on weak and flood prone soils. A pile foundation system was recognized as unavoidable, and since the very first constructional operations, a process began aimed at improving the ancient techniques in order to standardize procedures and to control costs...
Tra Guarini e la scuola antonelliana. Il fondo Franco Rosso all'Archivio di Stato di Torino, 2018
Quale nesso si delinea tra un luogo, una vita, le carte che raccontano un percorso umano e profes... more Quale nesso si delinea tra un luogo, una vita, le carte che raccontano un percorso umano e professionale? La descrizione dell'appartamento di uno studioso, è qui al centro di una riflessione sul suo lascito intellettuale e materiale.
Atti e Rassegna Tecnica della SIAT, a. 149 - LXX - N. 1-2-3 - Dicembre, 2016
The identification of an early Eighteenth century palace in Turin, Palazzo d'Arcour, is the start... more The identification of an early Eighteenth century palace in Turin, Palazzo d'Arcour, is the starting point for a discussion of its urban configuration by "grossazione" , i.e. by the fusion of pre-existing late medieval structures on the same site.
J.W.P. Campbell (Eds), Proceedings of the sixth conference on the Construction History Society CHS, Water, Doors and Buildings. Studies in the History of Construction, Queen’s College, Cambridge, 2019
Water is at the same time an ally and insidious enemy of military architecture. When the city of ... more Water is at the same time an ally and insidious enemy of military architecture. When the city of Alessandria was chosen, around 1725, to become one of the main fortresses in the Kingdom of Sardinia, complex problems had to be faced for the construction of a new citadel on weak and flood prone soils. A pile foundation system was recognized as unavoidable, and since the very first constructional operations, a process began aimed at improving the ancient techniques in order to standardize procedures and to control costs...
Tra Guarini e la scuola antonelliana. Il fondo Franco Rosso all'Archivio di Stato di Torino, 2018
Quale nesso si delinea tra un luogo, una vita, le carte che raccontano un percorso umano e profes... more Quale nesso si delinea tra un luogo, una vita, le carte che raccontano un percorso umano e professionale? La descrizione dell'appartamento di uno studioso, è qui al centro di una riflessione sul suo lascito intellettuale e materiale.
Atti e Rassegna Tecnica della SIAT, a. 149 - LXX - N. 1-2-3 - Dicembre, 2016
The identification of an early Eighteenth century palace in Turin, Palazzo d'Arcour, is the start... more The identification of an early Eighteenth century palace in Turin, Palazzo d'Arcour, is the starting point for a discussion of its urban configuration by "grossazione" , i.e. by the fusion of pre-existing late medieval structures on the same site.
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René Ouvrard, Architecture harmonique, ou application de la doctrine des proportions ... more (Preprint) René Ouvrard, Architecture harmonique, ou application de la doctrine des proportions de la musique à l’architecture, edizione a cura di Vasco Zara, Classiques Garnier, Paris 2017, 170 pp., ill. in b/n.
Anna Marotta, Roberta Spallone (Eds.), "Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean. Vol. VII", proceedings of the International Conference on Modern Age Fortification of the Mediterranean Coast - FORTMED 2018 (Politecnico di Torino, 18-20 October 2018), Politecnico di Torino, p. 217-224, 2018
The Azienda generale delle Fabbriche e Fortificazioni, ancien régime institution that coordinates... more The Azienda generale delle Fabbriche e Fortificazioni, ancien régime institution that coordinates the measures of the Kingdom of Sardinia on a massive system of fortresses and citadels, develops an unprecedented capacity of control, registration and prescription over the XVIII century. The ubiquity of the administrative structure, and its constant presence, is revealed by the scale of the archives of the Azienda: over three hundred contracts are concluded only for the citadel of Alessandria between the 1730s and 1790s. Tens of millions of bricks and hundreds of operations, leading to the construction of bomb-proof (‘alla prova’) barracks, bastions and bridges are recorded, involving engineers, companies, furnaces, quarries. The overall mapping of these contracts, along with on-the-spot checks and surveys of the buildings’ constructional systems, aim at staking the usefulness and the eloquence – as well as the historical significance – of this serial source.
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René Ouvrard, Architecture harmonique, ou application de la doctrine des proportions de la musique à l’architecture, edizione a cura di Vasco Zara, Classiques Garnier, Paris 2017, 170 pp., ill. in b/n.