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Recycled theory: illustrated dictionary

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"Recycled theory" is a multidisciplinary dictionary made of entries in form of texts, drawings and quotes, which explore the concept of “recycling” in design cultures and in the theories that nurture them. Usually we recycle things, objects, spaces but more often we return on principles and approaches to rearrange them, put them back into circulation, and override them. The practice of recycling is therefore placed in an area of negotiation between memory and amnesia, it brings out the unexpected self-regeneration potential of what exists, our ability to preserve and reinvent it, even through its partial breakdown. The words here collected (from “amnesia” to “zone”) identify materials, procedures, ambiguities, deviations, and potential nexus of recycling, recording terms that tell the different processes of production and sense of city and landscape after recent socio-economic upheavals and the widening of preservation as the prevalent scenario for the project. Recycled Theory comes out of the collaboration of eleven Italian universities engaged in the research “Re-cycle Italy: New Life Cycles for Architecture and Infrastructure of City and Landscape.”

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Investigate: Villardjournal 01.2018

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pippo ciorra | giovanni corbellini | anna contati | silvia dalzero | giorgia de pasquale | delphine desert | sara favargiotti | maddalena ferretti | paola galante | guiomar martín domínguez | giulia menzietti | caterina micucci | marion nielsen | luigi pintacuda | laura pujia | chiara rizzi | alessandro tessari | giulio testori | moira valeri | paola zanotto

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Exlibris: 16 keywords of contemporary architecture

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Architects write a lot, especially now that conceptual aspects have become central in advanced reflections and narrative forms increasingly intersect the quest of design practices for an ultimate legitimation. In the growing mass of publications, these keywords turn the genre of annotated bibliography into a hypertextual device by highlighting recurrent issues and tracking synthetic paths of orientation among different critical positions, with particular attention to what happens in the neighbouring fields of the arts and sciences.

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Viceversa 7: black conversations

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Why black is more and more the new black? This issue of Viceversa investigates the gap between the huge mass of dark proposals in the recent architectural production and the lack of theoretical positions aimed to support them. Ten conversations with architects, artists, critics, curators, historians from the various fields of arts and design try to shed some light on this obscure matter.

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Gino Valle in Carnia : architecture in the mountains

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the book presents Gino Valle's original architectural drawings and many photos of the buildings he constructed in Carnia, the mountain region of Friuli Venezia Giulia near the border with Austria. Included are: the treppo and sutrio town halls, the thermal baths at arta, casa quaglia, the kursaal at arta, the yet unpublished fielis kindergarten and other projects. Gino Valle's work has always been the target of critical attention, published regularly in the most important italian and foreign architectural periodica; although never given adequate space it is also present in the histories of contemporary architecture.

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Sayable space: narrative practices in architecture

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"When a work reaches its maximum intensity," wrote Le Corbusier, "a phenomenon of ineffable space occurs." The ultimate quality of architecture would reside, therefore, in the resistance to its description. However, to tell us this, and much more, the Swiss master has published more than seventy books and his so compelling formula in supporting the ineffable also shows how words are able to grasp it. This brief essay investigates the multiple intersections between discourse and design: the way buildings try to ‘talk’ with their own specific means; how architects are trying to remain relevant without building; the paradoxes of architecture description after its completion; the modes of communication during the project processes; the capacity of narrative to act before the project operations start and infiltrate the collective perception, making possible innovative approaches...

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Bioreboot, the architecture of R

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This book features nineteen projects—illustrated with extensive plans, photographs, and renderings—along with essays and interviews, providing the most comprehensive monograph of this elusive, intriguing firm to date. Despite working with oppositional relationships—machinery versus nature, purity versus corruption, paranoia versus rationality—theirs is an architecture whose primary aim is the ecological and social improvement of the place in which it exists.