The Competition for the Cover Image
Gino Buscaini, Mountains in His Hands
Interpreting the Alpine Region over Time through the High-Altitude Network of Outposts
Mountain huts at high altitudes tell the story of the times and ways in which man has known the Alps. Originally created as shelters, today they make up a network of outposts that have developed on the mountains over time, reflecting the socio-economic changes in history. However, the current climatic context and the increasing degree […]
Cyborg Mountains. Post-war and Post-mining Metamorphoses in the Border Areas between Trentino-Alto Adige and Sardinia
The anthropic contribution, in geological terms, is now a widely recognised component in current debates, but it is often viewed exclusively in oppositional terms, as something foreign or disruptive compared to an assumed original naturalness of these contexts, particularly when we speak about mountains. Through the comparison of two distinct case studies, differing in location […]
Italian Mountain Villages of Wisconsin. Hillbrows and Hilltowns by Robert Venturi
Hillbrows and Hilltowns (Venturi, unpublished manuscript 225.XI.108, Venturi Scott Brown Collection, Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania) is the title of the text in which Robert Venturi gathers his most profound and spontaneous reflections on the relationship between architecture and landscape, specifically focusing on how small rural villages dot the mountainous landscape of the central Italian […]
Visible Traces, Invisible Traces. The Texture of the Mountain as Infrastructure
The highlands of Abruzzo, including the Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park and the Sirente-Velino Regional Park, are defined by towering peaks converging on vast plateaus. The geomorphological characteristics of these areas dictate specific forms of human interaction, such as pastoralism, agriculture, and forestry. The result is a landscape shaped by human practices […]
The Utopia of the Sacred Mountain. Imaginific Scenarios
The image of the mountain has been built around the idea of an entity characterised by a considerable mass, often associated with the perception of being an impervious area. This place, marked by its great height and extension, and difficult to traverse, has profoundly influenced the human imagination to the extent that, over the centuries […]
Stories by Drawing. Dino Buzzati’s Mountains
Regarded as one of the greatest Italian writers of the 20th century and therefore better known for his literary activity than for his graphic-pictorial activity, Dino Buzzati (1906-1972) expressed his love for the mountains through images conceived as painted stories. Both his biography and bibliography reflect a vocation for visual expression, running parallel to his […]
Representing by Profiles. The Mountain, Described through its Outline
The mountain’s profile is recognized as one of the distinctive elements by which it is identified, its reading by contrast with the background sky characterising its iconic recognition. In this sense, the paper investigates the representation of the mountain through the graphic form of the profile, understood as the drawing that reproduces the extreme line […]
Editorial. Elevated Sites