ROTTERDAM ROCKS! E L’ARTE (PERDUTA) DEL RENDERING – note sul simulacro digitale in architettura
Questo lungo post prende le mosse dai render del progetto “Rotterdam ROCKS!” dello studio olandese MVRDV per sviluppare una riflessione critica sul ruolo della rappresentazione nei processi di progettazione architettonica contemporanea. A partire da questo caso sintomatico, il testo ripercorre la co-evoluzione tra immagine e progetto attraverso alcune tappe fondamentali: la stagione del decostruttivismo e […]
THE BRION MEMORIAL, the fragility of things.
(initially published on 25 August 2024, under the title ‘LA TOMBA BRION, la fragilità delle cose’) I periodically visit the Brion Memorial. I remember it before maintenance a few years ago, when it was called Brion Tomb. Before its philological restoration, it was easier to understand the fragility of the poietic balances achieved by Carlo […]
THE SAN CATALDO CEMETERY, a suspended work
(initially published on 13 August 2019, under the title ‘IL CIMITERO DI S. CATALDO, un’opera sospesa’) It is now seven years since, one morning in early December 2017, I finally visited the well-known San Cataldo cemetery in Modena, one of the first public works designed by Aldo Rossi, even though I had not planned to […]
EXPLORATORY ARCHITECTURE: AN INTRODUCTION
(initially published on 8 August 2021, under the title ‘Introduzione ad una Architettura Esplorativa’) In 1951, at the University of Chicago, in his lecture The End of Modernity[i], German philosopher and political scientist Eric Voegelin attempted to analyse the reasons that had led European civilizations to the establishment of the totalitarianisms that emerged between World […]