Fronte/Retro. Cultura costruttiva tra Italia e Brasile

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Triagulac[c]ión | About Legazpi Market in Madrid

The main contribution of municipal architects to Madrid's Rationalism must be investigated in the construction of public buildings. Markets play a fundamental part among them, thanks to the work of F. J. Ferrero Llusìa, public architect since 1921. With his markets, between 1931 and 1934, it has brought a real change in European industrial architecture in the XIX century. With the premise of hygiene, constructive austerity, structural trueness and the rejection of ornament in favor of pure form, he created a new hypothesis that was characterized by the guiding principles of Rationalism. Awareness of the construction culture of the time, through observation of the details and technical literature linked to the “Mercado Central de Frutas y Verduras” in Madrid, are the conditions for an intervention of conscious restoration. The paper presents a process of slow re-appropriation of the site by the citizens, as an alternative to the current project proposed by the municipality

Luogo e identità: comprendere il Genius Loci, Place and identity. Conceiving the Genius Loci

The Genius Loci sinks roots in the classical era, where the Genius was everyday part of everyday life. This paper is an attempt to capture the true sense of the Genius figure analyzing verses from authors who have written about it and reporting some iconographic illustrations. There are a lot of literary sources and different interpretations, and these are often contradictory. Today this locution is used in various contexts, however we can recognize the Genius Loci in some places and cities, and it can remain in our memories. Someone could make a transposition between Genius and place, because just as devastating a place could antagonise the Genius Loci, in the same way when the soil of a territory is overused, depriving it of its resources, and when the relationships between location and morphology are neither understood nor respected, there is a risk that it will rebel, giving rise to natural phenomena of no small consequenc

A fábrica e seu destino. Considerações acerca da falta de aplicação dos distintos saberes para a restauração e o uso do patrimônio industrial no caso da Olivetti Brasil, The factory and its doom. Considerations about the non-application of the different knowledge for the restoration and use of industrial heritage in the case of Olivetti Brasi

The contribution aims to analyse the events surrounding the Olivetti factory in Brazil. The purpose is to reflect on the work from a broader panorama that sees it as deeply connected to its era - the second half of the 20th century -, to its ownership - Olivetti - and to the architect who designed it - Marco Zanuso. The factory is considered among the references of modern architecture produced in São Paulo during the 1950s, a pioneering case of globalised architecture produced by that group of European architects who influenced Brazilian architecture. In the 1990s, the factory underwent a reconversion that distorted its original composition, a fate from which it has not been possible to escape despite the efforts made to ensure its preservation. The occasion promotes a discussion related to the themes of the preservation of the industrial architectural heritage, still too fragile and too often subjected to building speculation that replaces historical- cultural values with political-economic ones. The factory and its doom are thus aimed at underlining the lack that played a role in the reuse of the factory. Lack of awareness, knowledge, methodology, and adherence to restoration principles, finally results in the lack of historical memory

Ripensare la fabbrica Olivetti a Scarmagno: grande occasione, grande responsabilità

Come si porrà la nuova gigafactory di Carlstrom firmata Pininfarina nei confronti dello straordinario impianto plasmato a suo tempo da Zanuso e Vittoria

King Faisal II’s plans for Greater Baghdad

The urban system of Gorizia (Italy) and Nova Gorica (Slovenia), as the point of contact of the interrupted territory crossed by the river Isonzo-So\u10da, has been over the centuries the stage of a conflicting history. Due to its shifting border condition and challenging co-existence between its parts, it is a territory assembled by fragments instead of plans, either materialized through exceptions rather than rules. Starting from the recognition of the fragmentary and conflicting nature of the project of modernity, this paper traces a trajectory to investigate the hidden layers of its spatial realm and discourse, in order to question whereas the project of modernity could reveal its unfinished condition as a prospective. Indeed, the permanence and the countless variation of void will be explored within the multiple garden cities imagined, designed, built and lived in the territory of Gorizia and Nova Gorica. Reckoning with the modern spatial discourse, from the symbolic and figurative aspects of the Athens Charter, to the theories of Ebenezer Howard\u2019s Garden Cities of Tomorrow and Camillo Sitte\u2019s Der Stadte-Bau, heterogeneous city images emerged on the isontine ground: from the green and functionalist Nova Gorica by Edvard Ravnikar, to Antonio Lasciac\u2019s projections for a garden Gorizia, or the therapeutic vision of an Austrian Nice. Reading these fragments archaeologically in their symbolic and figurative aspects, it is therefore possible to reconstruct the birth of a condition and a view in movement, sometimes narrative, sometimes projective, certainly partial, transitory and alternative but which has been confronted with the symbolic horizon of his vision. The void is then a critical device of the existing city, of the many ideas of imagined cities, of localized utopias, of those realized and lived in the territory of Gorizia and Nova Gorica, which can be read as the dispositive of the modern eye, or, the invention of a landscape

La mujer en el patrimonio industrial. Recorridos de turismo sostenible

This paper describes the innovative work that has led to the publication of the architectural and tourist-cultural guide MoMoWo. Women Architecture & Design Itineraries across Europe. The guide is one of the main results of the four-year European project MoMoWo Women's creativity since the Modern Movement, co-funded by the programme Creative Europe and devoted to women in construction, a sector in which the traditionally invisible female gender has encountered more difficulties than in others. The itineraries have been developed with the aim of disseminating the work done by women and spreading more information on the accessibility of the area, the buildings and the works created by women. Through sustainable mobility on foot, by bicycle or public transport, several tourist routes have been planned that are representative on the characteristics of the city and that recreate a sort of open-air museum defined, among other things, by reused buildings. Within the guide, the city that has most enhanced its industrial identity is Turin. It was the archetypal industrial city, but in recent decades it has become one of those European cities that has significantly changed its urban landscape. The third itinerary of the Turin section leads to the rediscovery of this industrial heritage transformed by the women designers into a path that includes relevant symbols for the city such as the Thermal Power District Heating Plant, the “Toolbox” and the Fonderie Limone. The combination of industrial heritage and women designers is also present in the other cities of the guide, which give a valuable research contribution. Defining markets as workplaces and therefore part of the industrial heritage, the incredible recovery example of the Saint Catherine’s Market in Barcelona is reported, as well as the Underdogs Art Store located in the Mercado da Ribera in Lisbon, or even the Market Hall Ceiling Painting in Rotterdam. Mention should be added to the project for the D’Orsay Museum in Paris

Luogo e identità: comprendere il Genius Loci, Place and identity. Conceiving the Genius Loci

The Genius Loci sinks roots in the classical era, where the Genius was everyday part of everyday life. This paper is an attempt to capture the true sense of the Genius figure analyzing verses from authors who have written about it and reporting some iconographic illustrations. There are a lot of literary sources and different interpretations, and these are often contradictory. Today this locution is used in various contexts, however we can recognize the Genius Loci in some places and cities, and it can remain in our memories. Someone could make a transposition between Genius and place, because just as devastating a place could antagonise the Genius Loci, in the same way when the soil of a territory is overused, depriving it of its resources, and when the relationships between location and morphology are neither understood nor respected, there is a risk that it will rebel, giving rise to natural phenomena of no small consequenc

TRIANGULAC[C]IÓN | Il caso del Mercato Legazpi di Madrid

The main contribution of municipal architects to Madrid's Rationalism must be investigated in the construction of public buildings. Markets play a fundamental part among them, thanks to the work of F. J. Ferrero Llusìa, public architect since 1921. With his markets, between 1931 and 1934, it has brought a real change in European industrial architecture in the XIX century. With the premise of hygiene, constructive austerity, structural trueness and the rejection of ornament in favour of pure form, he created a new hypothesis that was characterized by the guiding principles of Rationalism. Awareness of the construction culture of the time, through observation of the details and technical literature linked to the “Mercado Central de Frutas y Verduras” in Madrid, are the conditions for an intervention of conscious restoration. The paper presents a process of slow re-appropriation of the site by the citizens, as an alternative to the current project proposed by the municipality