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Changing Public Realm and Urban Green: The New Interior Landscape

The transformation of the great Western cities is an on-going process. It has become evident over the last decades that cities need to transform into compact, interrelated and creative artefacts. Within this process the nature of natural and artificial urban green,1 in other words the verdure, is already changing today in both qualitative and...

Vacant city

Abandoned places that the crisis has multiplied, unaware wrecks of a project of civilization that has consumed its thrust and life-giving function, are waiting for new desirable interpretations, they are an expression of a possible city in opposition to the existing, even if not recognized by any instrument. It is the Vacant city, magmatic,...

Groundscrapers: Vitalizing the Tradition of the Urban Low Rise, Mixed Hybrid Building

The fact that hybrid buildings can be interpreted as extremely condensed urban blocks, increasing the city’s density and contributing to its public realm, forms one of the key interests of this research. According to its European interpretation, the “ground scraper” is not only public because of the character of its plinth facing the street, but...

Beyond the typological discourse: The creation of the architectural language and the type as a project in the western modern city

This thesis considers the city and its architecture the extreme condition under which the endless discussion around the human being way of thinking takes place. More precisely, the research assumes the city as the place where the displacement of mindset principles, categories and catalogue of objects is materialized into Form, becoming...

The study of urban form in the Netherlands

The study of urban form in the Netherlands has been heavily influenced by the Modern Movement and characterized by strong disciplinary specialization. On the one hand there is the distinction between art and engineering and on the other the search for instrumental universal rationality. This helps to explain the increasing interest, initially...

Dalla "società dello spettacolo" allo spettacolo della società: La rigenerazione urbana come pratica di rivendicazione del dismesso

The dismission of the industrial city gives us an "unproductive" waiting condition, with regard to which three different strategies can be recognized. The first, spread in Europe since the second half of the 1970s, has elegantly removed this cumbersome presence, assimilating it to a "gap”, to redeem by invoking the "authority of the past” at...

Rossi, Ungers and Koolhaas: Three positions on the relation between Architecture and Planning

The Reclaimed City. Islands of resilience in the urban archipelago. "Temporary Use" and transformation in emergency conditions

The crisis resulting from the effects of the pandemic has revealed more than just a financial impact, but also the inability of our cities to react to pressing changes that cannot be postponed. Only a portion of this can be traced back to the structural inertia in modifying a social framework founded on automatisms that involve both action ...