I'm back here. I was not lacking on a disturbing lack of inspiration. Bad time.
the Corriere del Mezzogiorno of 07/02/2006, page 3
Tomorrow night on the Arabic television aired a documentary filmed in the suburbs of Naples
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His eyes, accustomed to other scenarios and "battlefield" as they crossed Scampia?
'Scampia is the epitome of the suburbs of the Mediterranean is not made for humans, but against the measure of man. Those blocks of space with no service are not conducive to life, but the enclosed. The buildings are just high, but the height is not space. Certainly it is a problem common to all suburbs, I think of the Parisian banlieues, but what unites them is the lack of services and the total isolation that cuts them off from all living. In Arab countries it is not: The suburbs remain low houses with two floors, have a less alienating even if they share with shrimp and other metropolitan suburbs with the same problems, lack of work-related crime. But there are also positive examples of neighborhoods: I think the Garbatella of Rome, where we shot the other part of the documentary. "
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Tomorrow night on the Arabic television aired a documentary filmed in the suburbs of Naples
[...]
His eyes, accustomed to other scenarios and "battlefield" as they crossed Scampia?
'Scampia is the epitome of the suburbs of the Mediterranean is not made for humans, but against the measure of man. Those blocks of space with no service are not conducive to life, but the enclosed. The buildings are just high, but the height is not space. Certainly it is a problem common to all suburbs, I think of the Parisian banlieues, but what unites them is the lack of services and the total isolation that cuts them off from all living. In Arab countries it is not: The suburbs remain low houses with two floors, have a less alienating even if they share with shrimp and other metropolitan suburbs with the same problems, lack of work-related crime. But there are also positive examples of neighborhoods: I think the Garbatella of Rome, where we shot the other part of the documentary. "
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Gropius wrote in his manifesto of the Bauhaus, that the " ultimate goal of the visual arts is the building complete. " Only in build could be realized fully the noblest purposes of painting, sculpture and architecture. The emblem, topped by a cathedral three stars (representing, in fact, the three limbs above), was the " Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art) which established the full achievement of intent.
The building was considered at the time as an activity which can reconcile manual labor and intellectual work, supported by a background socialism: the building became the meeting place between individuals different classes.
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Lately faculty is in an exhibition on architecture in Colombia the last twenty five years I was very fascinated how, originally a country devoid of infrastructure, it is an operator having in so short a time, staying away from temptations Eastern Metropolitan (palaces anonymous placed one next to each other).
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I admit it: I admire the architecture of the fascist, not so much for his taste, or his sense of space, but rather for its push for reform so pervasive throughout the peninsula. Many Italians found themselves in the position to design, model and finally give life to places where they would spend much of their existence, offices, train stations, theaters.
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Turning to the primary, it appears that a new code of urban infrastructure and residential neighborhoods. I hope the return of a season devoted to the construction, with a rational basis, on a human scale and environment.
support the idea of \u200b\u200barchitecture in the sense cathartic and pedagogical lived by its users.
Torino 2006, the third metro line in Naples, we interpret them as signs in favor.
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