Ecoltura: per un’ecologia della cultura
Storia dell’arte in Europa
Thirty years after it was written, an unpublished and farsighted history of art in Europe is published, told with sensitivity not usual at the time it was composed, by Decio Gioseffi, an art historian specialized in perspective. From the caves of Altamira to the mature Renaissance, classes of problems are collected and amplified in the […]
Adalberto Libera a Trento. Il palazzo per l’Istituto Nazionale delle Assicurazioni (1936–50)
The book, also through unpublished materials, aims to illustrate the complex events that accompany the creation and the construction of the National Institute of Insurance building in Trento, to whose project Adalberto Libera dedicates more than a decade over World War II, trying to deal with the theme of living, on the one hand, and […]
Quando costruiamo case, parliamo, scriviamo
Antonio Belvedere’s exploration of the thoughts and works of Vittorio Ugo offers contemporary architectural historiography a precious opportunity, not only to learn about the role of a scholar of great importance in the panorama of design research in Italy, but also to take stock of the great changes that have characterized it in recent decades. […]
Tempo forma immagine dell’architettura
Time, shape and image are three access keys to architecture, valuable for those who today join the road that already Vittorio Ugo (Palermo 1938-2005) traced, over three decades, with his research and his teaching. This book is a compilation of reflections this themes accrued by many scholars and submitted to the Study Day in his […]
Modellazione 3D & rendering
The volume aims to investigate the processes of realizing 3D models and their subsequent use, which can be directed to the field of figuration, by means of rendering operations, the obtaining of traditional graphic executive drafts, CAD/CAM mode, where objects and components are made with numerical control machines. The first stage is about analysis and […]
Dell’Architettura Civile di Baldassarre Orsini
The volume contains the transcription as well as the historical-critical analysis of the second part of the treatise “About Civil Architecture by Baldassarre Orsini”, an unpublished work of the eighteenth-century “painter-philosopher” in Perugia: a precious manuscript, preserved in the Academy of Fine Arts “Pietro Vannucci” of Perugia, that, although designed with specific educational purposes (Orsini, […]
Vedere con la mente
This book proposes a learning method of descriptive geometry based on the use of touch, in the absence of the assistance of visual perception, with the intent to also acquire the blind the ability to understand the physical space in which we live. The approach to the basic concepts and experimentation on the architectural forms […]
Alessi Bernini Borromini
Observation skills, logical reasoning, knowledge. Hard not to recognize the essential role played by such qualities, their detection activity, even in architectural survey, especially if the goal is to resolve puzzles rather than highlight opacity. The three presented “cases”, in fact, move from many a circumstantial evidence: a ruined window in the garden of Pieve […]
Estetica delle periferie urbane
Urban periphery has always been viewed in scientific literature as negative: “degraded place” at best, “no place” in a commonly accepted definition. A closer look to a zoned suburb without aesthetic qualities, reveals that there are actually spontaneous realities with a clear figurative identity and a well-defined vocabulary. Based on a concept of “new survey” […]