Download or read book Architettura e felicit written by Alain de Botton and published by Guanda. This book was released on 2016-07-14T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: «C’è un che di straordinario in Alain de Botton. Combatte la guerra contro il conformismo con armi e tattiche tutte sue: è erudito ma non minaccioso, ha curiosità e sensibilità. Guida il lettore verso la piena comprensione delle cose, miscelando la giusta dose di forza espressiva e moderazione. Architettura e felicità possiede tutti gli elementi di questa formula vincente.» THE INDEPENDENT Se riteniamo che la qualità dell’ambiente in cui viviamo sia fondamentale per il nostro benessere, non possiamo non interrogarci sul rapporto tra architettura e felicità. Ma da dove cominciare? Oggi, a differenza dei secoli passati, siamo consapevoli dell’impossibilità di individuare una misura del bello assoluta e riproponibile all’infinito, senza tener conto delle tradizioni locali e della sensibilità dei committenti. Se le ville palladiane rappresentano un ineguagliato modello di equilibrio architettonico, una recente villa costruita a Londra secondo gli stessi canoni suscita più sconcerto che ammirazione. E non erano affatto contenti i signori Savoye, per cui Le Corbusier progettò la famosa villa di Poissy: il capolavoro dell’architetto modernista si rivelò ben presto inabitabile. D’altro canto, invece, accostamenti inediti di forme, materiali e stili possono essere fonte di piacere e serenità. Attraverso una ricca casistica e insieme facendo ricorso alla verve del narratore, De Botton indaga, nella molteplicità delle sue sfaccettature, l’influenza del design sull’essere umano, design che suscita sensazioni e riflessioni, modifica l’umore, fornisce stimoli al miglioramento. Imparando a ritrovare in edifici e oggetti doti e qualità presenti anche nell’uomo avremo dunque l’occasione di conoscere meglio noi stessi. È questa, dopotutto, la fonte della vera felicità.
Download or read book The Architecture of Happiness written by Alain De Botton and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2010-12-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Alain de Botton considers how our private homes and public edifices influence how we feel, and how we could build dwellings in which we would stand a better chance of happiness. In this witty, erudite look at how we shape, and are shaped by, our surroundings, Alain de Botton applies Stendhal’s motto that “Beauty is the promise of happiness” to the spaces we inhabit daily. Why should we pay attention to what architecture has to say to us? de Botton asks provocatively. With his trademark lucidity and humour, de Botton traces how human needs and desires have been served by styles of architecture, from stately Classical to minimalist Modern, arguing that the stylistic choices of a society can represent both its cherished ideals and the qualities it desperately lacks. On an individual level, de Botton has deep sympathy for our need to see our selves reflected in our surroundings; he demonstrates with great wisdom how buildings — just like friends — can serve as guardians of our identity. Worrying about the shape of our sofa or the colour of our walls might seem self-indulgent, but de Botton considers the hopes and fears we have for our homes at a new level of depth and insight. When shopping for furniture or remodelling the kitchen, we don’t just consider functionality but also the major questions of aesthetics and the philosophy of art: What is beauty? Can beautiful surroundings make us good? Can beauty bring happiness? The buildings we find beautiful, de Botton concludes, are those that represent our ideas of a meaningful life. The Architecture of Happiness marks a return to what Alain does best — taking on a subject whose allure is at once tantalizing and a little forbidding and offering to readers a completely beguiling and original exploration of the subject. As he did with Proust, philosophy, and travel, now he does with architecture.
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Download or read book Luigi Moretti written by Roberto Podda and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luigi Moretti: Lessons of SPAZIO focuses on the theoretical work of the Italian architect Luigi Moretti (Rome, 1906–1973). It does so selectively, focusing on the editorials he published between 1950 and 1953 as editor-in-chief of the magazine SPAZIO, as well as a further essay on parametric architecture, published in 1971–1972, in the first issue of the magazine MOEBIUS, directed by his friend Giulio Roisecco. This book rediscovers Moretti's personal impact on international architectural theory through thoughtful comments that shed light on the architect's modernity and original approach. Although Moretti is an architect renowned for his projects and buildings, his theoretical essays are less well-known. The aim of this book is therefore to explore Moretti's theoretical work, which covers many topics, including pictorial art, sculpture, architecture, urban planning, music, cinema, poetry, mathematics, computer science, parametricity. In addition to the translation from Italian to English, the book contains reproductions of the original articles, accompanied by a series of essays of critical commentary and updated interpretations that show new ways of approaching, reading, and understanding the foundations of current architectural theory and its progress over the last 50 years. This book approaches Moretti's thought from a new perspective, with the aim of reconsidering the originality of this brilliant and visionary architect who was intellectually ostracised for many years due to political and ideological contingencies, even though he personified the ideal of the 'Renaissance man' in modern times. A re-reading of Moretti's work is more justified today than has ever been before, both to reconnect the threads with contemporaneity and to make his intensity and farsightedness of vision known to researchers, teachers, and students working in the areas of architecture and design theory, technology, and art today.
Download or read book The Architecture of Modern Italy written by Terry Kirk and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2005-06-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of design in Italy is explored in this authoritative and comprehensive work. Design periods include the era of Piranesi, the eclecticism of the 19th century, the futurism of the early 20th century, the dogmatic fascism of the interwar period, the designs of Pier Luigi Nervi and on to the present day.
Download or read book Putting Tradition into Practice Heritage Place and Design written by Giuseppe Amoruso and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 1595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers more than 150 peer-reviewed papers presented at the 5th INTBAU International Annual Event, held in Milan, Italy, in July 2017. The book represents an invaluable and up-to-date international exchange of research, case studies and best practice to confront the challenges of designing places, building cultural landscapes and enabling the development of communities. The papers investigate methodologies of representation, communication and valorization of historic urban landscapes and cultural heritage, monitoring conservation management, cultural issues in heritage assessment, placemaking and local identity enhancement, as well as reconstruction of settlements affected by disasters. With contributions from leading experts, including university researchers, professionals and policy makers, the book addresses all who seek to understand and address the challenges faced in the protection and enhancement of the heritage that has been created.
Download or read book Cultural Sustainable Tourism written by Uglješa Stankov and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes research papers submitted to and presented during the first international conference on Cultural Sustainable Tourism (CST) that was held in Thessaloniki, Greece in November of 2017. Discussing complex relations between Culture, tourism, and the role of planners and architects in their maintenance, this conference was jointly organized by IEREK –International Experts for Research Enrichment and Knowledge Exchange- and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The conference was an attempt to shed a light on the significance of Culture and Heritage as two important factors attracting tourists and promoting economic growth and convey civilizations through tourism. Themes covered in this book give an overview on current research and topics of discussion that focus on Cultural sustainable tourism through several sections. The first section, titled “Art, Architecture and Culture”, discusses urban regeneration as a road to the preservation of cultural and tourist destinations and the importance of understanding and benefitting from our heritage to allow for modern day improvements. “Heritage Tourism”, the section 2 of the book, is more focused on offering nontraditional solutions and management plans to sustain cultural tourism and improve quality of life around historically significant areas. The third section on the “City and Rural Tourism” follows by providing sustainable strategies to attract tourists and promoting the use of existing resources. The last and final section with the title of “Sustainable Tourism, Development and Environmental Management” maneuvers around the different yet common environmental issues existing today and proposes new and innovative solutions for their elimination. Presenting a wide range of topics in chapters, this book provides the scientific community with a collection of unique and enlightening literature.
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Download or read book Architecture Form s Identity written by Greta Allegretti and published by LetteraVentidue Edizioni. This book was released on 2022-08-03 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture form(s) identity. Spaces for the absence of memory is a collection of essays on the theme of memory, its possible loss, weakness, ability to build individual and collective identities, and on the way architecture inserts itself in this process, determining different spaces of reflection. These texts all arise from a common research ground, which saw the editors personally involved in an inter-doctoral Workshop (The Memory as Construction of the Subject. Designing for the Absence of Memory, 2018-19), with a collaboration between Politecnico di Milano (AUID) and the Universidad de Sevilla (HAC) Ph.D. schools, in which the theme of memory and the construction of a more holistic space that dialogues with it was at the center of the design reflection. These contributions, all built around that very rich relationship between memory and architecture, have led to a necessary desire to broaden the horizons and thematic limits reached by the workshop, considering them as a starting point for the collection of different perspectives able to investigate some issues in a more specific way.
Download or read book Percorsi nell Architettura written by Franco Purini and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Con il testo della conferenza "Percorsi nell'architettura" di Franco Purini la Facoltà di Architettura di Sapienza intende riprendere e rinnovare la tradizione di pubblicare i contenuti delle Lectiones Magistrales tenute, su invito, negli spazi della facoltà. Con la novità, tuttavia, della pubblicazione non a stampa ma in formato elettronico, un instant e-book, che intende rispondere all'esigenza di fornire un prodotto più agile, maneggevole, e anche più moderno, del classico volumetto cartaceo.Quella a cui Franco Purini si è volentieri, anche se forseinconsapevolmente, sottoposto è una sperimentazione i cui esiti sono ancora da comprendere a pieno tenuto conto che, a differenza degli studenti tutti ormai born digital, i docenti sono a volte meno abituati a questo genere di innovazione.
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Download or read book Handbook of green communication and marketing written by AA. VV. and published by FrancoAngeli. This book was released on 2012-11-08T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1561.88
Download or read book Making Strategies in Spatial Planning written by Maria Cerreta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09-11 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative collection of essays challenges traditional ideas of strategic s- tial planning and opens up new avenues of analysis and research. The diversity of contributions here suggests that we need to rethink spatial planning in several f- reaching ways. Let me suggest several avenues of such rethinking that can have both theoretical and practical consequences. First, we need to overcome simplistic bifurcations or dichotomies of assessing outcomes and processes separately from one another. To lapse into the nostalgia of imagining that outcome analysis can exhaust strategic planners’ work might appeal to academics content to study ‘what should be’, but it will doom itself to further irrelevance, ignorance of politics, and rationalistic, technocratic fantasies. But to lapse into an optimism that ‘good process’ is all that strategic planning requires, similarly, rests upon a ction that no credible planning analyst believes: that enough talk will miraculously transcend con ict and produce agreement. Neither sing- minded approach can work, for both avoid dealing with con ict and power, and both too easily avoid dealing with the messiness and the practicalities of negotiating out con icting interests and values – and doing so in ethically and politically critical ways, far from resting content with mere ‘compromise’. Second, we must rethink the sanctity of expertise. By considering analyses of planning outcomes as inseparable from planning processes, these accounts help us to see expertise and substantive analysis as being ‘on tap’, ready to put into use, rather than being particularly and technocratically ‘on top’.
Download or read book Domus written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
