L' Aquila e i centri minori frammenti di paesaggio italiano colpito dal sisma del 6 aprile foto Antonio Ottomanelli

presentazione/introduction
architettura introversa testo Marco Casamonti

editoriale/editorial
l’architettura invisibile testo Paolo Giardiello

letture critiche/critical lectures
momenti del razionalismo critico in Franco Albini testo Aurelio Cortesi
RCR Arquitectes/bell-lloc winery
Plan01/vendée’s historical museum
Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos/madinat al zahra museum
Dominique Perrault Architecte/ewha womans university
Ateliers Jean Nouvel/concert hall
Rafael Moneo/deusto university library
Kazuyo Sejima & Associates/okurayama apartments
Alberto Campo Baeza/benetton kindergarten
AMO*OMA/prada transformer
Sebastian Mariscal/tercio winery
Torafu Architects/house in kohoku
Felipe Assadi & Francisca Pulido/guthrie house
Aristide Antonas/amphitheatre house

bibliografia
intervista a Guillermo Vazquez Consuegra a cura di Jõao Alves e Alessandro Tessari
tra innovazione e tradizione l’esempio Andalusia testo Alessandro Tessari

itinerario contemporaneo: Andalusia

esiti concorsi/competitions

recensioni mostre e libri/exhibition and book reviews

new media


L‘Aquila e i centri minori frammenti di paesaggio italiano colpito dal sisma del 6 aprile

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foto by Antonio Ottomanelli photo attestation of Sant‘Eusanio Forconese Villa Sant‘Angelo and Casentino on April 17 2009. The question of reconstruction and existing buildings Every time an old town or any…

Introverted architecture

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Herzog & de Meuron, Tate Modern London, 2000 – photo by Margherita Spiluttini While the idea that architecture shows its essence through its façade, its outer appearance, cannot be denied, neither can it…

l‘architettura invisibile

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Invisible architecture The aim of architecture is to construct spaces that are suitable for people to go about their lives. Through the physical consistency of structures, the architect, in actual…

momenti del razionalismo critico in Franco Albini

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museo del tesoro di San Lorenzo photo by Pietro Savorelli I will here attempt to analyse how many signs of introversion were manifest in the mature phase of Albini in…

bell-lloc winery

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To construct a winery for private production and consumption in a singular setting, the beginnings of a vale, at the foot of a mountain, in a protected space, these are…

bell-lloc winery

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To construct a winery for private production and consumption in a singular setting, the beginnings of a vale, at the foot of a mountain, in a protected space, these are…

Vendée’s historical museum

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The will to dissimulate the 6000 square meters of this program in the country side landscape was written in the brief of the competition Plan01 won in September 2002. The…

Madinat al Zahra museum

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A visit to the Madinat al Zahra archaeological site and the allotment reserved for the museum and offices arouses contradictory emotions. On the one hand, nostalgia for a remote, undiscovered…

Ewha womans university

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The new campus centre of the University of Ewha will be completed in May 2008 and will accommodate 20000 students. It includes spaces for study and sport, offices, a cinema…

concert hall

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Architecture is like music…Building in a new neighbourhood is a risk – a risk that has often proved fatal in recent decades. When it is impossible to use a built…

deusto university library

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The university complex of Deusto has always played a very important role in the configuration of the left bank of the Dando river, as witness of the civic vocation the…

okurayama apartments

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It is an apartment building in Okurayama near the station consisting of 9 dwelling units, each about 50 smq. Rather than build as many units as possible given the site…

benetton kindergarten

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A box open to the sky We built a square box composed of nine smaller squares. The center square emerges to bring light from the heights of the vestibule. The…

prada transformer

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The form of the Transformer is derived from a Tetrahedron and when rotated each side facilitates a different program. The programs envisioned include the Prada Waist down Exhibition, an art…

tercio winery

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Amidst the olive trees and vineyards of Valle de Guadalupe, Mexico, Tercio Winery is located adjacent to the previously completed project. Perpendicular to each other, the buildings form a dialogue…

House in Kohoku

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This site is located in a quiet residential region reclaimed on a hill of Yokohama. With neighboring houses lined very close together, this flag-shaped site meets a road at a…

Guthrie house

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The commission was received from a real estate firm which wanted the design of a repeatable house, possible of being sited on a slope with 25% average gradient. The offer…

amphitheatre house

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The amphitheater house is built in Hydra, a traditional small town, situated in the homonymous island, close to Piraeus, the port of Athens. The building was built above the ruins…

intervista a Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra

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Joao Alves and Alessandro Tessari: Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra, “Andalucía de Arquitectura 2007” Prize. This is an award to your professional path of development. We would like to start this conversation by…

contemporary itinerary: Andalusia

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