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 […]
LA TOMBA BRION, la fragilità delle cose
Passo periodicamente per il Memoriale Brion. Lo ricordo prima della manutenzione di qualche anno fa, quando si chiamava Tomba Brion. Prima del suo ripristino filologico era più facile capire la fragilità degli equilibri poietici raggiunti da Carlo Scarpa nel cimitero di Altivole. L’equilibrio tra costruzione, composizione e ridondanza di dettagli è ancora ipnotico e forse […]
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 […]