La gestione dei piani urbanisticiPerequazione, accordi, incentivi

Gestire la trasformazione della città significa organizzare una nuova relazione tra pubblica amministrazione e soggetti privati. Strumenti come la perequazione urbanistica, gli accordi di partenariato e gli incentivi premiali hanno trasformato alla radice l'idea di pianificazione. L'accordo si sostituisce all'azione coercitiva, l'imposizione si trasforma in intesa. Il negoziato non rappresenta…

Discorso sull'architetturaCinque itinerari nell'arte del costruire

Oggi l'architettura sta vivendo una stagione di grande instabilità. Sulla scia della globalizzazione, la pervasività della tecnologia e delle mode, le problematiche sociali ed economiche e il conseguente disorientamento dell'individuo ne hanno radicalmente trasformato gli assunti teorici e le applicazioni pratiche. Se un tempo l'architettura era un'unità compatta, con una finalità chiara e …

Stati Generali del Patrimonio Industriale. 2018

Da tempo l'Industrial Heritage costituisce una delle leve strategiche per il rilancio culturale di città e territori e per nuovi programmi di rigenerazione urbana. Molti progetti e realizzazioni dimostrano come buone pratiche di salvaguardia e recupero possano dare adeguata valorizzazione ai beni della civiltà industriale e restituirli al pubblico come patrimonio culturale collettivo. Chi si …

The Majesty of the Garden District

Under a canopy of magnolias and live oaks, bordered by the streets of Jackson, Magazine, Louisiana, and St. Charles, spacious mansions serve as a gallery of fine architecture in a section of New Orleans known as the Garden District. Once home to a grand plantation, the property was sold and divided for residential use more than 150 years ago. In his final work, critically acclaimed photographe…

The Majesty of the French Quarter

"?highly recommended for architecture, photography, and history collections everywhere." --Library Journal "McCaffety knows how to capture the fleeting beauty of a moment." --Times Picayune For many, the French Quarter is New Orleans, yet how much do they really know about the Vieux Carr?? Truman Capote wrote, "Of all secret cities, New Orleans . . . is the most secretive. . . . [Its] archite…

The Majesty of the River Road

Master photographer Paul Malone captures the charm and grandeur of these palatial homes and other notable structures in the Mississippi River region between Baton Rouge and New Orleans in 156 full-color photographs, including interior views of many of them. Ornate stairways and foyers, elaborate parlors, and spectacular bedrooms complete with period furnishings reflect the prosperous and opulen…

A Pattern Book of New Orleans Architecture

A study of historic architectural styles of New Orleans homes. This presentation of nineteenth-century gouache and watercolor archival paintings from the New Orleans Notarial Archives offers a glimpse at what old, renovated, restored, and new buildings in New Orleans neighborhoods not only might look like, but how they should look. Including examples of each New Orleans house type, ranging fro…

H BlocksAn Architecture of the Conflict in and about Northern Ireland

Shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion 2023 Shortlisted for the Colvin Prize 2023 A place of incarceration and liberation, political debate and historical denial, the H Block cell units of Long Kesh/Maze prison in Northern Ireland housed members of both Republican and Loyalist military groups during 'The Troubles' and are now considered 'icons' of that conflict. The H Block's dual …

Athens on the FrontierGrecian-Style Architecture in the Splendid Valley of th…

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Sanctioning ModernismArchitecture and the Making of Postwar Identities

In the decades following World War II, modern architecture spread around the globe alongside increased modernization, urbanization, and postwar reconstruction—and it eventually won widespread acceptance. But as the limitations of conventional conceptions of modernism became apparent, modern architecture has come under increasing criticism. In this collection of essays, experienced and emergin…