Architekt und Architekturhistoriker
From Peripheral Port to Cultural MetropolisIn recent decades, Marseille has undergone a dramatic transformation from peripheral port to cultural metropolis. At the heart of this shift stands the MuCEM, Rudy Ricciotti’s Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations, completed in 2013 as the centerpiece of Marseille’s year as European Capital of Culture. Its role has been …
Weiterlesen "Marseille Beyond the Icon: MuCEM and the Mediterranean Metropolis"
Timber has recently been enthroned as the material of salvation. In competitions, in policy papers, and on glossy renderings it appears as the renewable cure to the excesses of concrete and steel. It has become the emblem of an environmental conscience—moralized, celebrated, and, increasingly, unquestioned. Yet this reverence rests on a fragile paradox: the more …
Weiterlesen "Ecological Chimera: The Dogma of Timber Construction"
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 …
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 …
Weiterlesen "Mies Before Modernism: Detours and First Steps"
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 …
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 …
Weiterlesen "Innenverdichtung und ökologische Rücksicht im Wohnbau"
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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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 …
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 …
Weiterlesen "CFP: Beyond the gaze. Interpreting and understanding the city"
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 …
Luigi Monzo 