Nell'indagine prospettica della proposta di Nova Theoretica si è imposta la necessità di indagare il tema dell'idea per rintracciare in questo concetto e in questo termine alcuni dispositivi teoretici capaci di restituire orizzonti e riflessioni sull'essenza stessa della filosofia. Il tema, trattato da diverse prospettive storiografiche e speculative, offre alcune linee ermeneutiche del problema "Idea" per ritrovare, nella forza di tale concetto, una radice feconda del filosofare oggi. Con saggi di Massimo Adinolfi, Kurt Appel, Carla Canullo, Alberto De Vita, Massimo Donà, Daniel Kuran, Thomas Leinkauf, Carmelo Meazza, Marco Moschini, Michele Ricciotti, Francesco Valagussa, Pavao Zitko.
Louis I. Kahn was one of the most influential architects, thinkers and teachers of his time. This book examines the important relationship between his work and the city of Rome, whose ancient ruins inspired in him a new design methodology. Structured into two main parts, the first includes personal essays and contributions from the architect’s children, writers and other designers on the experience and impact of his work. The second part takes a detailed look at Kahn’s residency in Rome, its effects on his thinking, and how his influence spread throughout Italy. It analyses themes directly linked to his architecture, through interviews with teachers and designers such as Franco Purini, Paolo Portoghesi, Giorgio Ciucci, Lucio Valerio Barbera and the architects of the Rome Group of Architects and City Planners (GRAU). Rome and the Legacy of Louis I. Kahn expands the current discourse on this celebrated twentieth-century architect, ideal for students and researchers interested in Kahn’s work, architectural history, theory and criticism.
This book explores the relationship between the sciences of representation and the strategy of landscape valorisation. The topic is connected to the theme of the image of the city, which is extended to the territory scale and applied to case studies in Italy’s Umbria region, where the goal is to strike a dynamic balance between cultural heritage and nature. The studies demonstrate how landscape represents an interpretive process of finding meaning, a product of the relationships between mankind and the places in which it lives. The work proceeds from the assumption that it is possible to describe these connections between environment, territory and landscape by applying the Vitruvian triad, composed of Firmitas (solidity), Utilitas (utility) and Venustas(beauty). The environment, the sum of the conditions that influence all life, represents the place’s solidity, because it guarantees its survival. In turn, territory is connected to utility, and through its etymological meaning is linked to possession, to a domain; while landscape, as an “area perceived by people”, expresses the search for beauty in a given place, the process of critically interpreting a vision.
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