A Postscript on Preservation and Transformation in urban planning and architecture In a recent essay on the redevelopment of central Pforzheim and the impending demolition of two buildings from the postwar period (cfr. Was bleibt von der Stadt des Wiederaufbaus? In: Pforzheimer Zeitung, 08-15-2026, p. 22), I wrote a sentence that was meant almost as …
Blaubeurer Tor: Zwischen Ergänzung und Authentizität
Die Diskussion um die Zukunft des Blaubeurer Tors in Ulm berührt eine der zentralen Fragen der Denkmalpflege: Wie gehen wir mit historischen Verlusten um? Sollen sie sichtbar bleiben oder durch bauliche Ergänzungen überwunden werden? Und bedeutet die Wiedergewinnung einer verlorenen Gestalt tatsächlich auch einen Gewinn an Authentizität?Die aktuelle Debatte ist bemerkenswert, weil sie sich nicht …
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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 …
Published by Sandro Scarrocchia: Sandro Angelini – Architetto in Bergamo e conservatore internazionale nel secondo Novecento
Sandro AngeliniArchitetto in Bergamo e conservatore internazionale nel secondo NovecentoSandro Scarrocchia ITALIAN | ISBN: 9788857587592 The place from which one goes out and to which one returns is Bergamo, both for Sandro Angelini and for Sandro Scarrocchia, an Italian architectural historian and expert in the preservation of heritage. The architect Angelini was born in Bergamo …
Luigi Monzo 