Architekt und Architekturhistoriker
Few formulations in twentieth-century architectural thinking are quoted as often—and misunderstood as frequently—as “Silence to Light.” For Louis Kahn, this was not a metaphor, nor a poetic afterthought appended to built work. It was a condensed theory of architecture itself: a description of how architecture comes into being, and of the ethical discipline required to …
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Every culture is haunted by the question of origins. Where does authenticity begin? For America, two figures answer in remarkably parallel ways—one with words, the other with buildings. Ralph Waldo Emerson, the philosopher of Self-Reliance, and Frank Lloyd Wright, the architect of organic modernism, never met across time, yet their work speaks like two voices …
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Luigi Monzo spricht mit Cathrin Weiß im Radio StHörfunk zu seinem Buch 'Croci e fasci - Der italienische Kirchenbau in der Zeit des Faschismus'. Erstausstrahlung am 20.12.2021 16.00-17.00 Uhr im Radio StHörfunk. Online im Stream und via FM, Wiederholungen entsprechend am unmittelbar folgenden Mittwoch 11 Uhr, Freitag 7 Uhr, Sonntag 5 Uhr. Das Interview ist …
IOFAN 130 - The Paths of Architecture of the 1920s-1940s International Conference, September 15-16, 2021, Central House of the Architect, Granatnyy Pereulok, 7-1, Moscow The Scientific Research Institute of Theory and History of Architecture and Urban Planning, Moscow Centre André Chastel, Laboratoire de recherche en Histoire de l’art, ParisDepartment of Enterprise Engineering ‘Mario Lucertini’, Tor …
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Between the two world wars, there was a high level of building activity in Italy. Architects built new edifices, but they also repaired, restored and rebuilt existing ones. Fascist society both formed a new political landscape and shaped the traditional historical landscapes through architecture and urban planning. The book Townscapes in Transition will bring together …
Adalberto Libera: Casa Pigione, Roma, 1933. CALL FOR PAPERS Annual Conference of the American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS) Sant'Anna Institute, Sorrento (Italy), 14-17 June 2018 Deadline: 30 december 2017 https://aais.wildapricot.org/session_proposals [English version see below] Session 24 Paesaggio in transizione. Trasformazione, riordinamento e continuità nell’architettura della città italiana tra le due guerre. Dopo la prima …
Phantasivolle Betrachtung der Stadt in der Übersetzung von Burkhart Kroeber neu aufgelegt 1972 erstmals herausgegeben ist Italo Calvinos Buch ‘Le città invisibili’ (Die unsichtbaren Städte) inzwischen neu im Fischer Verlag aufgelegt worden. Bis heute ist der fantastische Dialog Marco Polos mit Kublai Khan eine virtuose Reise in die unsichtbaren Zusammenhänge menschlichen Zusammelebens. Calvino gelingt dabei …
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