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Perpetuating Architecture. Martino Pedrozzi's Interventions - On the Rural Heritage in Valle di Blenio & Val Malvaglia 1994-2017 (Hardcover)
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Perpetuating Architecture. Martino Pedrozzi's Interventions - On the Rural Heritage in Valle di Blenio & Val Malvaglia 1994-2017 (Hardcover)
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For more than 20 years, Swiss architect Martino Pedrozzi has been
working on the partial reconstruction of derelict dwellings on
alpine pastures in the mountains of southern Switzerland. His
interventions in Valle di Blenio and Val Malvaglia, at altitudes
around 6,500 ft in the canton of Ticino, are part of a scheme to
protect and preserve the cultivated landscape shaped by generations
of local farmers grazing their cattle. Pedrozzi collected and put
in place again stones that had been used as building materials for
the ancient dry-stone walled structures, which have been abandoned
in recent decades. This recomposition is meant to reconstruct a
public space and to retain landmarks in the barren alpine
landscape, and to form a monument for the civilisation that has
been sustained by it for centuries. This book documents Pedrozzi's
work and highlights the problem of rural exodus: a constant
phenomenon in the history of human life, caused by conflict,
economic change, natural disasters, and climate change. Here it is
about mountain dwellings no longer used because alpine agriculture
has been given up in favour of better opportunities and more
comfortable ways of life. Text in English and Italian.
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