The decision to rebuild the Notre-Dame spire and roof in a way that incorporated modern methods and materials while maintaining the overall historical design certainly sparked a lot of debate about the approach to heritage restoration, but finally it undermined the original philosophy of Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814-79), who built the roof and spire that …
Mies Before Modernism: Detours and First Steps
When we speak about Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, we usually think of the great canonical works: the Barcelona Pavilion, the Tugendhat House, the Seagram Building. His reputation rests on a clarity of form that seems timeless, as if it had always been there. But the journey that led him to this stripped-down, almost ascetic …
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Published by Carmen Belmonte: A Difficult Heritage: Fascist-era Art and Architecture Out of Its Time
Architecture as Ethical Terrain Carmen Belmonte’s edited volume A Difficult Heritage. The Afterlives of Fascist-Era Art and Architecture is less a catalogue of monuments than a meditation on what happens when ideology hardens into stone. For those of us trained to read architecture not only as form but also as cultural instrument, the book offers …
Innenverdichtung und ökologische Rücksicht im Wohnbau
Der Klimawandel ist vor aller Augen und kann, wenn man ehrlich ist, nicht mehr bestritten werden. Die Frage ist, was können wir tun, um den damit einhergehenden Wandel abzumildern und uns seinen Folgen anzupassen. Ein wichtiger Bestandteil betrifft die Versiegelung von Fläche durch immer neu ausgewiesene und bebaute Areale für Gewerbe und Wohnen. Dabei ist …
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Lecture: Rome and the Physical Legacies of Fascism by Hannah Malone
Lecture: Rome and the Physical Legacies of Fascism by Hannah Malone (University of Groningen), Tue Apr 4, 2023, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm.This is an invited lecture at the Rome Globe Gateway by Professor Hannah Malone of the University of Groningen and Visiting Professor at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome. People can register to the virtual version …
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Nervis Stadio Berta im Malstrom des Kommerzes
Pier Luigi Nervi, einem der innovativsten und einflussreichsten Ingenieure des 20. Jahrhunderts, verdanken wir den überaus eleganten Entwurf für das zu Beginn der 1930er Jahre in Florenz errichtete Stadion Berta. Mittlerweile wurde an dem Stadion immer wieder gebaut und verändert, um es den sich wandelnden Bedürfnissen des Entertainmentzeitalters anzupassen. In Stadio Artemio Franchi umbenannt, ist …
CFP: Beyond the gaze. Interpreting and understanding the city
AISU | Associazione Italiana di Storia Urbana11th AISU Conference, September 13-16 2023, at Ferrara (Italy)Session 6.9: Restoration and Imago Urbis. Analogue and Digital Visions and Representations of the Urban Image between the 20th and 21st Centuries Coordinators: Leila Signorelli (University of Bologna), Mariarosaria Villani (University of Naples Federico II), Giulia Favaretto (University of Bologna) The …
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Published by Ulrike Gawlik: Innere Kolonisierung – Italien und Deutschland von 1927 bis 1935
Ulrike Gawlik, who has already made an important contribution to Italian studies with her dissertation on the Italian landscape architect Raffaele De Vico (published 2012), now broadens the view with her post-doctoral thesis to the quite mutual influences of Italy and Germany in the 'saddle period' around 1930. In her new book she delves into …
Published by Carmen Enss and Birgit Knauer: Atlas Kriegsschadenskarten Deutschland
In the area of urban research and monument studies, attempts have been made in recent years to map the process of reconstruction. This seems all the more important since the building heritage of the years after 1945 has fully arrived in the focus of the preservation of historical buildings and the architectural discourse. This atlas …
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Published by Alexander Fichte: Städtische Wohnquartiere in Venedig (1918–1939)
In the inner periphery of Venice, various residential areas were built in the 1920s and 1930s to absorb the population demands of the time, which were also felt in the lagoon city. Attempts were made to design the urban form of the new neighborhoods in such a way that they blended harmoniously with Venice's particular …
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Luigi Monzo 