Hodgdon Powder Company
Hogdgon Powder is a gunpowder manufacturing plant located in the Flint Hills of Central Kansas, a region containing the last remaining indigenous tall grass prairies in the Midwest. The plant is located adjacent to a rural airport that was originally b …
Argos
In July of 2006, this project was announced as the winner of an architectural contest looking for a design proposal of the “skin” for a technical building containing a self generation electrical plant for a cement factory. With the resultant design, th …
Power and heat supply plant
At the intersection of highways and canals – at the edge of the old town – in the center of the destroyed city, a new hearts starts beating. Power and heat – elixir of life – arises from the bottom of the port. A sensitive building at the water – its a …
The interior, the exterior, the vague
When the social scientist begins to explore the contemporary discourse by focusing on the field of architecture, he is immediately intrigued by its general structure. Architecture is almost always conceived, represented and criticized as an object that …
Industrial still and motion blur
Albano Guatti was born in Udine, Italy, in 1950. He graduated at the University of Florence where he studied Aesthetic with Ermanno Migliorini and thought as an assistent. He is a freelance photographer and since 1978 he lives between New York, where h …
area 120 – Beirut
presentazione/introduction Beirut: a city in continuous metamorphosis text by Laura Andreini cronologia editoriale/editorial An aesthetic of tension Alessandro Scarnato letture critiche/critical lectures Beirut, city …
Beirut a city in continuous metamorphosis
The present-day Beirut is an ancestral yet contemporary city. Metaphorically speaking, the parts into which it is divided appear as tectonic plates that clash against one another without ever merging, that float in a magma without integrations or relat …
An aesthetic of tension The reconstruction of Beirut between politics and planning
“Beirut is too big to be contained!” The slogan appeared on the walls of the city in the spring of 2005, during one of the most convulsed moments in the recent history of the Levantine capital, just after the attack on Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and j …
Beirut, city of clusters Planned city and urban chaos
Beirut is the product of the superimposition of various settlement principles: Phoenician, Greek-Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Medieval, Ottoman and French. These are associated with different hidden alignments that have formed the evolution of its urban mat …