|
Showing 1 - 4 of
4 matches in All Departments
Catalogue of the TECHNOSCAPE exhibition, which will be held at
MAXXI in Autumn 2022, focusing on the relationship between artistic
and scientific disciplines, nowadays closer than ever, and the
consequent contacts between technique, creativity and social
awareness. Architecture, engineering and science have overlapped on
numerous occasions during the 20th century. First in the heroic
phase and then in the mature phase of the reinforced concrete, then
with the affirmation of hi-tech construction methods in the 1970s
and 1980s and finally with the eruption of digitally controlled
technologies. TECHNOSCAPE explores this alliance, responding to
MAXXI's mission to look towards the future of our planet and the
disciplines that modify its spaces. The volume follows the dual
register of the exhibition, first dealing with how technology is
making architecture, urban planning and other related disciplines
more aware of their technical and scientific responsibility and
capable of opening up new lines of research. The focus shifts then
to structural engineering, comparing current masterpieces with
previous historical modernist examples.
This book examines the transformation of the Italian city from the
1950s to the present with particular attention to questions of
identity, migration and changes in urban culture. It focuses on two
phases of that transformation: the years of accelerated
industrialisation in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the period
of de-industrialisation and postmodernity beginning in the 1980s.
It shows how major demographic movements and cultural shifts threw
into relief new conceptions of the city in which old boundaries had
become problematic. Design, fine art, literature, youth culture,
film and social history all provide focal points. The contributions
bring specialist expertise to each area while the extensive
illustrations give a vivid picture of the contemporary visual
culture for which Italian cities are famed. This is a genuinely
interdisciplinary approach by Italian and English-speaking
historians and scholars of urban studies, literature, architecture
and design which introduces new debates and research to an
English-speaking audience for the first time. Extensive
illustrations provide a vivid picture of contemporary Italian
visual culture.
Giada Ripa’s photos form an itinerary of landscapes traversing
Italy, North to South, focusing on five regions: Friuli, Lombardy,
Tuscany, Abruzzo, and Sicily. This account is not limited to a
photographic album; rather, it calls upon champions from each area
who, through engaging interviews, describe the positive impact on
its territory of the commitment of an important local business.
Concrete examples of this cooperation are the environmental revival
carried out in the Prealpi Giulie Nature Reserve in Friuli, the
conservation of local species of flowers carried out with the
cooperation of the Botanical Gardens in Palermo, and stretches of
land made available and leased free of charge. Thus, The Thin Line
represents a hope, but also an awareness of the territory and of
those who not only inhabit it now, but will come to inhabit it in
the future. Text in English and Italian
|
|