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L. Zuccaro Marchi

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The Heart of the City

Legacy and Complexity of a Modern Design Idea

The Heart of the City concept, which was introduced at CIAM 8 in 1951, has played an important role in architectural and urban debates. The Heart became the most important of the organic references used in the 1950s for defining a theory of urban form. This book focuses on both ...
The article analyses the discourse of CIAM 8, which was held in 1951 at Hoddesdon and it dealt with the topic of the Heart of the city. This latter was conceived as a Constituent Element at the basement of the urban structure, dealing with right balance between the private and th ...
Winner Europan 14, "The Productive Heart of Neu Ulm" Architects: Leonardo Zuccaro Marchi (IT), Piero Medici (IT), Alice Covatta (IT), Annalisa Romani (IT) Contributors: Agnieszka Batkiewicz (PL), Christian Maijstre (NL), Virginia Santilli (IT), Yağız Söylev (TR), Xiaoyi Qin (CN)@ ...
Victor Gruen is the pioneer of the regional shopping centre, he is the “Mall Maker”, which, is also the title of a book by M. Jeffrey Hartwick about this Austrian-born architect. Well known for his first commercial projects, which have been copied and analysed worldwide, mostly n ...

In Praise of Errors

Erroneous Landscape of Passages

In praise of errors

Erroneous landscapes of passages

The “Heart of the City”, title of the 8th CIAM held in 1951, is a contradictory and pervasive figure of speech which has marked a thinking and urban transition after the Second World War. In 1951, two opposite urban conditions are considered by Sert, President of CIAM, as main is ...
Lippiello A., Zuccaro Marchi L., “Runner-up. Floating Blocks,” in Europan, Europan 11, in the Netherlands. (Amsterdam: SUN, 2012), 103-105. (ISBN 978-94-6105-8737)@en
Lippiello A., Zuccaro Marchi L., “Floating Blocks,” in Europan, Europan 11 Results, (Paris: Europan Europe ed., 2012), 12. (ISBN 978-2-914296-22-9)@en