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This book stems from the seminal work of Robert Venturi and aims at
re-projecting it in the current cultural debate by extending it to
the scale of landscape and placing it in connection with
representative issues. It brings out the transdisciplinary
synthesis of a necessarily interdisciplinary approach to the theme,
aimed at creating new models which are able to represent the
complexity of a contradictory reality and to redefine the
centrality of human dimension. As such, the volume gathers multiple
experiences developed in different geographical areas, which come
into connection with the role of representation. Composed of 43
chapters written by 81 authors from around the world, with an
introduction by Jim Venturi and Cezar Nicolescu, the volume is
divided into two parts, the first one more theoretical and the
other one which showcases real-world applications, although there
is never a total split between criticism and operational
experimentation of research.
This book stems from the seminal work of Robert Venturi and aims at
re-projecting it in the current cultural debate by extending it to
the scale of landscape and placing it in connection with
representative issues. It brings out the transdisciplinary
synthesis of a necessarily interdisciplinary approach to the theme,
aimed at creating new models which are able to represent the
complexity of a contradictory reality and to redefine the
centrality of human dimension. As such, the volume gathers multiple
experiences developed in different geographical areas, which come
into connection with the role of representation. Composed of 43
chapters written by 81 authors from around the world, with an
introduction by Jim Venturi and Cezar Nicolescu, the volume is
divided into two parts, the first one more theoretical and the
other one which showcases real-world applications, although there
is never a total split between criticism and operational
experimentation of research.
This book explores the relationship between the sciences of
representation and the strategy of landscape valorisation. The
topic is connected to the theme of the image of the city, which is
extended to the territory scale and applied to case studies in
Italy's Umbria region, where the goal is to strike a dynamic
balance between cultural heritage and nature. The studies
demonstrate how landscape represents an interpretive process of
finding meaning, a product of the relationships between mankind and
the places in which it lives. The work proceeds from the assumption
that it is possible to describe these connections between
environment, territory and landscape by applying the Vitruvian
triad, composed of Firmitas (solidity), Utilitas (utility) and
Venustas(beauty). The environment, the sum of the conditions that
influence all life, represents the place's solidity, because it
guarantees its survival. In turn, territory is connected to
utility, and through its etymological meaning is linked to
possession, to a domain; while landscape, as an "area perceived by
people", expresses the search for beauty in a given place, the
process of critically interpreting a vision.
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