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Cette communication a eu lieu le 31 mars 2017, dans le cadre du séminaire doctoral d'Alexandre Gady. Elle fut l'occasion de révéler une documentation inédite permettant de porter un nouveau regard sur le projet de place Louis XVI destiné... more
This is a review of facsimile editions of two architects' sketchbooks, Eduardo Souto de Moura and Wang Shu. One factor in the staying power of the sketch is its immediacy, another is its physicality. In a world in which we increasingly... more
L'inventario dei libri ritrovati alla morte di Bernardo Antonio Vittone nella sua abitazione torinese è stato pubblicato più di quaranta anni fa da Paolo Portoghesi: non si tratta dunque di un documento inedito. Tuttavia non era... more
The story, research and discoveries made about the famous Clock at Hampton Court Palace, and its very interesting history.
Progetto di Bernardo Vittone per l'altare maggiore della chiesa di San Giovanni Battista di Cirié e relativa Istruzione (1738).
The study aims to analyse the two static models most widely adopted by Bernardo Antonio Vittone, through the comparison of two churches in Turin: Santa Chiara and San Leonardo. They are double envelope buildings, with central dome,... more
Models Ruins Power is a three-part journal about the primary generators of architecture. The publication, edited by Sasha Cisar and Nicholas Lobo Brennan, is a collection of essays in the form of writing, drawing and photography. In this... more
Članak govori o Bijelom gradu, četvrti Tel Aviva s brojnim reprezentativnim primjerima građevina podignutih u stilu internacionalne moderne arhitekture u razdoblju između dva svjetska rata, a u povodu izložbe održane u... more
This essay examines the narratives used to represent public space and to address or suppress the conflicts that take place within it. These narratives are examined in the Plaza of Three Cultures in Mexico City, designed by Mario Pani and... more
L'articolo riguarda la storia costruttiva e una proposta di riuso della Caserma Valfré di Bonzo di Alessandria
Abandoned on the coast as skeletons, bunkers are the last theatrical gesture in the history of Western military architecture (Virilio, 1975). Technically obsolete, this military territory has fallen into extinction and is now generally... more
The two Turkish baths in Elbasan have been object of a remarkable survey as part of a vast international research. The original system of the two public baths dates back to the mid-sixteenth century. In the Albanian typology of the... more
O. SERGI, Sant’Omobono: il Santo dei sarti e l’omonima Confraternita di Catanzaro, in “Tre incontri al S. Omobono: una città, una chiesa, un santo”, a cura di F. A. CUTERI, O. SERGI, Catanzaro, Trapasso 2009, pp. 13-16.
Since the advent of modern methods and new constructional approaches in architecture and landscape architecture, traditional architecture techniques which were based on utilizing natural energies have been completely set aside. In this... more
The focus of this study in the history of architecture and the built environment is the Stockholm City Hall and its practical functions and symbolic programme. The study also centres on the City Hall’s inauguration festival on the... more
Dutch Architects in the South African Republic Jaap Evert Abrahamse South Africa is one of the eight countries taking part in the Mutual Cultural Heritage programme, which was set up by the Dutch Ministries of Foreign Affairs and... more
The research focuses on the importance of the interrelationship between identity and heritage as a bonding factor that brings together all those who contributed to the formation of this heritage, regardless of the other ethnic, religious... more
Il codice Varia consilia pro bono urbis Romae della Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma, di cui si propone per la prima volta un’edizione integrale, è una straordinaria fonte inedita per la storia di Roma in età barocca. Databile allo... more
(From the cover) Se è vero che da puro nutrimento il cibo si è presto trasformato in complessa e raffinata operazione che convoca gusti e intelligenze per assurgere allo status d’imprescindibile «linguaggio», il luogo domestico a esso... more
The twentieth release of Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture is the primary significant work of history to incorporate an outline of the building accomplishments of the twentieth Century. Railing Fletcher has been the... more
From: Las artes en Quito en el cambio del siglo XVII al XVIII (Quito: FONSAL, 2009), pp. 11-25. Traces the history of architect José Jaime Ortiz through archival sources from his birth in Alicante, Spain, through his work in San Juan,... more
Neo-Gothic emerged in Croatian architecture rather late in comparison to Great Britain and the majority of countries in mainland Europe. Crucial in spreading the use of the style were the influences from the areas of present-day Germany,... more
In this paper I present a tradition preserved within the Holy Sepulchre church since the early Middle Ages, which involves the veneration of an icon of the Virgin Mary considered miraculous. According to numerous accounts, it was this... more