Architecture and Visual Narrative

Architecture communication tools have been implemented in recent history by strategies and narrative artifices imported from cinema, comic, photo-journalism and infographic. The architect has integrated the traditional encoded drawing with more extensive narrative artifacts to expand the basin of its interlocutors and to describe underestimated aspects of architecture and design process. Through the illustration of recent significant experiences, this paper intends to highlight the great variety of images that can be attributed today to architecture and the lack of proper attention on this production by Visual Studies

Illustrations and associative logic. Short circuits between images of science, art and architecture / Illustrazioni e logiche associative. Cortocircuiti tra immagini della scienza, dell'arte e dell'architettura

Le illustrazioni di carattere scientifico non servono solo per veicolare informazioni tra addetti che operano nello stesso ambito all’interno del quale sono concepite e generate. Spesso modelli concettuali espressi attraverso illustrazioni possono migrare tra discipline diverse aprendo possibilità di inaspettati sviluppi. Le immagini, infatti, hanno il potere di comunicare suggestioni diverse, andando dunque oltre al loro compito di raffigurare i contenuti per i quali sono state elaborate. Forme, colori, artifici comunicativi, schemi, notazioni, ideogrammi, figure geometriche, forme diverse di rappresentazione possono “rivelare” e restituire il visibile ma anche “costruire” un’idea del possibile. Le immagini hanno dunque il potere di poter parlare a tutti a prescindere dalla condivisione dei codici figurativi che usano. Anche qualora non si parli lo stesso “linguaggio iconico” e si incorra in fraintendimenti, Hans Georg Gadamer ci ha insegnato che questi non sempre generano conseguenze negative, anzi, possono aprire nuove strade interpretative. Le immagini organizzano, d'altronde, la nostra memoria e il nostro pensiero e sono in grado di far scaturire una molteplicità di associazioni – come ha dimostrato Aby Warburg con la pratica ermeneutica esercitata sulle immagini nel suo Bilderatlas. La proprietà associativa è d’altra parte peculiare dell’immagine e ci consente di cogliere, di ricordare e di rivelare tanto elementi della realtà quanto interi sistemi di ordinamento della nostra memoria e dei nostri modi di interagire con la realtà stessa. Quando operiamo per alterare la realtà percepibile producendo nuove immagini, come avviene con l’arte o l’architettura, è inevitabile che la creatività si alimenti con altre immagini e suggestioni. Il gioco dei rimandi può essere più o meno esplicitato nell’opera compiuta, ma sarà comunque colto in virtù delle proprietà associative che sarà in grado di sollecitare dando vita a sua volta a nuove possibilità di sviluppi figurativi e/o concettuali.Although the main purpose of scientific illustrations is to facilitate the sharing of information between operators working in environments in which they are widely understood, drawings of conceptual models may also be used in other fields, often with the consequence of generating new, unexpected developments. The power of images to communicate ideas other than the contents for which they were originally designed means that shapes, colours, communicational expedients, diagrams, notes, ideographs, geometric figures and different forms of representation not only “show the visible” but also propose a way of “constructing the possible”. Indeed, images have the power to speak to everyone, regardless of their knowledge of the figurative codes employed. Even when those who ‘read’ the images are familiar with different “iconic languages” and there is a strong risk of misunderstanding, Hans Georg Gadamer teaches us that this does not always lead to negative results but, on the contrary, often paves the way for new interpretations. Images organize our memory and thoughts and enable us to generate multitudes of associations, as demonstrated by Aby Warburg’s exploitation of hermeneutics in the composition of Der Bilderatlas: Mnemosyne. However, the ability to stimulate the power of association is a feature peculiar to the image as images enable us to capture, remember and exploit not only elements of reality but also entire systems of ordering our memories and interacting with reality. Inevitably, when artists or architects endeavour to change perceived reality by producing new images, their creativity is fuelled by other images and ideas. Yet, regardless of the degree of explicitness of the references used in the finished work, the references are understood as a result of the power of association. This is the key to generating new figurative and/or conceptual developments

Aesthetics of Resistance

The representations of the tensions induced by forms of resistance can transform solicitations, constraints, oppositions and limitations into occasions of emancipation and opening towards new forms of awareness. Can real aesthetics of resistance be identified? Photography, dance, art and architecture provide examples in this sense and suggest, with different forms but sometimes with similar purposes, different ways to interpret some manifestations of physical and social resistance. Resistance to gravity, considered as a natural condition at the origin of the development of architectural forms, represents a challenge also taken up by other artistic expressions that have always interacted with architecture. The mise-en-scene of the stresses induced by gravitational force can then create spaces for creativity and amplify the perception of the tensions that we unconsciously experience in everyday life. In this sense we speak of "fatal attractions”. Resistance can also be interpreted as a form of political and social opposition. The opposition of the individual or the community can counteract both the inexorable dynamics of urban transformation and the violence of political repression. This type of resistance manifests itself in the form of actions and forms of communication in which the resulting images become social acts. These are images that circulate in different media, images that speak to us from the walls of our streets, images that struggle to become architectural bodies but also ‘disobedient objects’. In some forms of resistance one can also recognize in the opposition the desire for self-determination of the individual and of the peoples. As expressions of the 'positive freedom of man', self-determination manifests itself through actions and artifacts that speak of the aspirations of peoples and their willingness to participate in the transformation of the places they inhabit. Between the plots of the informal city and the constantly adapting housing structures even in the consolidated city, both the artist and the architect can recognize forms of self-determination in which improvisation becomes an aesthetic category and a compositional strategy. In satisfying a condition of necessity, the individual always finds the opportunity to affirm his individuality as well, giving shape and image to his inhabiting. Only an accomplice look can recognize in the forms of resistance, often ‘weak’, all the strength they contain in their most intimate substance

Interconversion and Removal of Inorganic Nitrogen Compounds via UV Irradiation

Dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) species are key components of the nitrogen cycle and are the main nitrogen pollutants in groundwater. This study investigated the interconversion and removal of the principal DIN compounds ((Formula presented.), (Formula presented.) and (Formula presented.)) via UV light irradiation using a medium-pressure mercury lamp. The experiments were carried out systematically at relatively low nitrogen concentrations (1.5 mM) at varying pHs in the presence and absence of oxygen to compare the reaction rates and suggest the reaction mechanisms. (Formula presented.) was fully converted into (Formula presented.) at a pH > 3 in both oxic and anoxic conditions, and the reaction was faster when the pH was increased following a first-order kinetic at pH 11 (k = 0.12 min−1, R2 = 0.9995). (Formula presented.) was partially converted into (Formula presented.) only at pH 3 and in the presence of oxygen and was stable at an alkaline pH. This interconversion of (Formula presented.) and (Formula presented.) did not yield nitrogen loss in the solution. The addition of formic acid as an electron donor led to the reduction of (Formula presented.) to (Formula presented.). Conversely, (Formula presented.) was converted into (Formula presented.), (Formula presented.) and to an unidentified subproduct in the presence of (Formula presented.) at pH 10. Finally, it was demonstrated that (Formula presented.) and (Formula presented.) react via UV irradiation with stoichiometry 1:1 at pH 10 with the total loss of nitrogen in the solution. With these results, a strategy to remove DIN compounds via UV irradiation was proposed with the eventual use of solar light.Fil: Senn, Alejandro Marcelo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica. Gerencia del Área de Seguridad Nuclear y Ambiente. Gerencia de Química (CAC); ArgentinaFil: Quici, Natalia. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica. Gerencia del Área de Energía Nuclear; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional; Argentin

The Aesthetics of Desire

Il contributo inquadra e commenta il lavoro fotografico di G. Mauron, sulle case per civile abitazione non finite nel Salento.The article frames and comments on the photographic work of G. Mauron, on unfinished residential houses in Salento

Chapter HBIM e ICT. Il BIM per la valorizzazione della Fortezza Pisana di Marciana

The 43rd UID conference, held in Genova, takes up the theme of ‘Dialogues’ as practice and debate on many fundamental topics in our social life, especially in these complex and not yet resolved times. The city of Genova offers the opportunity to ponder on the value of comparison and on the possibilities for the community, naturally focused on the aspects that concern us, as professors, researchers, disseminators of knowledge, or on all the possibile meanings of the discipline of representation and its dialogue with ‘others’, which we have broadly catalogued in three macro areas: History, Semiotics, Science / Technology. Therefore, “dialogue” as a profitable exchange based on a common language, without which it is impossible to comprehend and understand one another; and the graphic sign that connotes the conference is the precise transcription of this concept: the title ‘translated’ into signs, derived from the visual alphabet designed for the visual identity of the UID since 2017. There are many topics which refer to three macro sessions: - Witnessing (signs and history) - Communicating (signs and semiotics) - Experimenting (signs and sciences) Thanks to the different points of view, an exceptional resource of our disciplinary area, we want to try to outline the prevailing theoretical-operational synergies, the collaborative lines of an instrumental nature, the recent updates of the repertoires of images that attest and nourish the relations among representation, history, semiotics, sciences

(Methanol-κO)bis­{2-meth­oxy-6-[(4-methyl­phen­yl)iminiometh­yl]phenolato-κ2 O,O′}tris­(nitrato-κ2 O,O′)lanthanum(III)

The asymmetric unit of title compound, [La(NO3)3(C15H15NO2)2(CH3OH)], consists of two Schiff base 2-meth­oxy-6-[(4-methyl­phen­yl)iminiometh­yl]phenolato (HL) ligands, three independent nitrate anions and one methanol mol­ecule coordinated to LaIII. The coordination environment of the LaIII ion is formed by eleven O atoms. Three bidentate nitrate anions coordinate to the LaIII ion, while two HL ligands chelate the metal center with O atoms from the phenolate and meth­oxy groups. The HL ligands are zwitterionic, with protonated imine N atoms. The coordination sphere is completed by one methanol mol­ecule. The protonated imine N atoms are involved in intra­molecular N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds with the phen­oxy groups and nitrate ligands. One O atom of one nitrate group is disordered over two sites of equal occupancy

Tris{2-meth­oxy-6-[(4-methyl­phenyl)­iminiometh­yl]phenolato-κ2 O,O′}tris­(thio­cyanato-κN)cerium(III)

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, [Ce(NCS)3(C15H15NO2)3], contains three Schiff base 2-methoxy-6-[(4-methyl­phenyl)iminometh­yl]­phenol (HL) ligands and three independent thio­cyanate ions that coordinate the cerium ion via their N atoms. The protonated imine N atoms are involved in an intra­molecular hydrogen bond with the respective phenoxide group. The Ce(III) ion exhibits a coordination number of nine

Lipophilic Cage Ligands: Synthesis, Spectroscopic Properties and Applications

Lipophilic Cage Ligands: Synthesis, Spectroscopic Properties and Application

Ditopic receptors capable of hydrogen bonding: Synthesis and complexation behaviour of diaza crown-ethers having melamine sidearms

The new ditopic receptors 1-3 (Figure 1) have been synthesized and their binding ability for alkaline and transition metal cations has ben investigated by halide and UV-Vis titrations. The recognition of complementary molecules through hydrogen bonding has been studied by H-1-NMR. The simultaneous recognition of these two guests is an anti-cooperative event