Università degli Studi di Firenze (University of Florence)

After the first edition of the IFAU 2017 – International Forum on Architecture and Urbanism organised in Tirana, and the second edition of the IFAU 2018 organised in Pescara, Italy, the Polytechnic University of Tirana – Faculty of... more

After the first edition of the IFAU 2017 – International Forum on Architecture and Urbanism organised in Tirana, and the second edition of the IFAU 2018 organised in Pescara, Italy, the Polytechnic University of Tirana – Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism (FAU) is organising the third edition: IFAU 2019 – International Forum on Architecture and Urbanism in Tirana, Albania on November 21 - 23, 2019, with the theme “Modernization and Globalization.” IFAU 2019 – 3rd International Forum on Architecture and Urbanism aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers, and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Architecture, Urbanism, Cultural Heritage within Modernization and Globalization trends of the XXI century. It also provides the premier interdisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, concerns, practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted for the Modernization and Globalization in the Cities in Transition. The third edition expands the horizon by introducing a series of overlapping visions spanning the recently institutionalised Adriatic - Ionian Euroregion, now extended to the Balkan and South-East European region. The Forum will concentrate on Architecture, Urbanism, Cultural Heritage located in contexts and territories that reveal their Modernization and Globalization tendencies. Modernisation and Globalization in Architecture, Urbanism and Heritage provide a multi-faceted analysis based on the understandings of architects and urban planners working in both the developed and developing countries traditions. Globalisation is a broad concept concerning the diversity of regions, cultures, and actors and the diversity of analytical approaches that can be employed to study it. During the past decade, notions of globalisation have displaced familiar discourses of modernisation. We consider Modernization and Globalization as a process that naturally links the past, the present and the future - as a bridge between the past and the future. Current events such as the cultural heritage protection crisis illustrate that the discussion should not be confined to specific geographic regions or narrowly defined analysis methods but in a broader and deeper search spectrum. The research presented in this forum embraces the need to cover various aspects and dimensions of Modernization and Globalization in Architecture, Urbanism and Cultural Heritage to see both its local and its global manifestations. From our perspective, globalisation studies imply research that is limited to the most popular spheres of globalisation and includes the study of global problems such as sustainable development, cultural heritage, and so on. In summary, Modernization and Globalization's distinctive character is that it delivers a large international and multicultural thematic issue associated with Architecture, Urbanism and Cultural Heritage, including their impact on particular cultural-geographic regions. The Modernization and Globalization of territories and cities in transition is the object of this Forum. Through contributions from colleagues and scholars from different international universities, the intention is to explore different interpretations of contexts, to study processes of Modernization and Globalization in territories and cities in transition, to define strategies for urban transformation and to confront issues raised by environmental and architectural sustainability, all framed by an up-to-date and contemporary vision of the entire Adriatic-Ionian and Balkan region. Culture and the strength of ideas are the essential tools for building bridges between knowledge and rediscovering, in a new relationship between Architecture, Urbanism and Cultural Heritage, the key to interpreting the processes transforming territories and cities. The conference program will include the topic of interest that include, but are not limited to:
1.. Global/local modernizations;
2. XXth century modernism and the question of cultural heritage;
3. Phenomena of regeneration, revitalization, recycle, reuse;
4. Modernization/globalization of urban planning/design and landscapes;
5. Modern housing;
6. Modern designing and daily life/universal design;
7. Utilization of future technologies;
8. Sustainability in the era of modernization/globalization.

City and territory are currently experiencing a phase of development, or crisis, depending on whether they manage to form the know-how to respond to the current exponential evolution. Know-how that has to make a critical assessment of the... more

Today the city is experiencing new forms of urban culture, between cityscape and mindscape. The cityscape moulded through tangible forms and values, spatialized in architectural and urban layouts, is increasingly linked to a mindscape... more

This work that relates to an intence work of study and research, made since 2004, is organized in three thematic phases to rebuild an Arno new vision, to be seen as a cultural, urban, social and naturalistic resource. Knoledge. Proposed... more

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- by Antonio Capestro
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  Geography, Exhibition

A conservação e valorização do Patrimônio Urbano constitui um dos desafios mais significativos dos últimos cinquenta anos, assumindo uma considerável importância tanto no sentido da preservarção e salvaguarda de valores compartilhados... more

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- Rigenerazione Urbana

The exhibition Compass and Rule: Architecture as Mathematical Practice in England, 1500-1750, at the Yale Center for British Art was the second incarnation of this show after having been exhibited at the Museum of the History of Science... more

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- by Lorenzo Vigotti
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  Early Modern England, Architectural History

The merchant Francesco di Marco Datini built his palace between 1354 and 1394 in his hometown of Prato, near Florence. Through a direct survey of the building and the vast archives of the merchant – which include full inventories of the... more

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- by Lorenzo Vigotti
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  Architectural History, Renaissance Florence

Florence has always been considered a paradigmatic example of the transition from medieval to Renaissance urban planning. One of the most fascinating aspects of this process of development is the visual appropriation of public space by... more

Florence has always been considered a paradigmatic example of the transition from medieval to Renaissance urban planning. One of the most fascinating aspects of this process of development is the visual appropriation of public space by influential private citizens. They were hardly the first to do so, however, for they largely employed mechanisms that had already been set in motion by public entities.
During the thirteenth century, the insertion of large monastic complexes into the urban fabric resulted in the development of peripheral areas of the city. Large open squares were created in front of the churches of the mendicant orders, resulting in a palpable extension of the liturgical space from interior to exterior, as well as a monumentalization of the structures themselves.
In the fourteenth century, a variety of large-scale urban projects were sponsored by the Florentine comune, including the construction of public palaces, new city walls, and markets; the medieval city fabric in turn was given a more rational aspect through the construction of new streets and squares intended to serve political and religious purposes. These spaces were planned according to a series of newly instituted laws that would render them not only more monumental, but would also regulate their popular use.
During the course of the fifteenth century, private citizens emerged as the protagonists in the urban development of Florence. The grand palaces constructed towards the middle of the century, including those of the Medici, Pitti, and Strozzi families, appropriated many essential characteristics of public architecture. These included rusticated facades, loggias, and benches along the street, as well as interventions upon the surrounding urban fabric through the broadening of adjacent streets and the creation or regularization of squares in front of the palaces.
My current dissertation research on domestic architecture between the fourteenth and the fifteenth centuries in Florence has required me to analyze the earliest examples of this process of the privatization of public urban space. The emergence of this phenomenon is usually dated to the mid-fifteenth century, but I have found that it is already visible a century earlier in the construction of new palaces by the Florentine oligarchy— a process facilitated by their growing political power, as well as the particularly favorable real estate market. Following the Black Plague of 1348, the drastic decrease in population density allowed members of the elite to construct their new residences with an unprecedented boldness, on a scale that had previously been reserved for public structures. These new palaces occupied the most privileged positions along the streets that had been broadened and regularized during the previous century, anticipating the Renaissance conception of perspective as later codified by Brunelleschi. The visible expression of the patron’s wealth and influence was no longer limited to his palace, but rather extended onto the surrounding urban space. These first examples of the appropriation of public space to serve private agendas paved the way for future developments, from the interventions of the Grand Dukes in Florence to the grandeur of baroque urban planning.

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- by Lorenzo Vigotti
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  Vitruvius, 16th century Venice, Andrea Palladio, Vitruvio

The aim of this course is to study architecture as tool of political propaganda. From the ancient Palace of Persepolis down to the 9/11 Memorial, this course analyzes architectural pieces in a chronological timeline. In order to ground... more

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- by Lorenzo Vigotti
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  Propaganda, History of architecture

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