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| "Urban
Lovers" NEWS-LETTER by A Vision of Europe in collaboration with CIVICARCH - University of Ferrara |
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| BEYOND SLAB-URBIA THE NEW REGIONAL WAY edited by Gabriele Tagliaventi, Alessandro Bucci Alinea Editrice - September 2006 |
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Foreword
Alternatives to Slab-Urbia The New Regional Way ............................................................................................................ Gabriele Tagliaventi The Val d'Europe Case A New Traditional Town ..................................................................................................................... Maurice Culot The Plessis-Robinson Case A New Urban Centre ................................................................................................................. Gabriele Tagliaventi Urban Renaissance in the USA From Slab-urbia to New Urbanism .............................................................................................. Galina Tatchieva From Pozzuoli to Monteriusciello A Lexicon for Urban Renaissance ......................................................................................................... Luigi Mollo Good News Agency 20 Years of European Urban Renaissance ................................................................................ Alessandro Bucci |
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THE
PROJECT OF THE MONTH
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NEW VILLAGE CENTER AT MAGNY-LE-HONGRE |
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Top: project facades On the left: aerial view of the new village center Below: view of a residential building on the piazza |
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| THE MONSTER OF THE MONTH | ||||||||||||||||||||
| "GREAT WORKS", GREAT PROJECTS ? | ||||||||||||||||||||
 The new building |
 The new building |
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| The project for the ARA PACIS, Piazza Augusto Imperatore, Rome, Italy, 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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"It must be demolished as well
as Punta Perotti"
"Deve essere demolita proprio come Punta Perotti" "A horror, a rape, a hugly contemporary architecture, an insult to culture, a horrible building and a wrong project" "Un orrore, uno stupro, una brutta architettura contemporanea, un insulto alla cultura, un manufatto orribile ed un progetto sbagliato" (V.Sgarbi, Corriere della Sera- Roma, 14-4-2006, page 3) |
"Meier knows Rome as well as
I do Tibet, where I have never been"
"Meier conosce Roma come io conosco il Tibet, dove non sono mai stato" (F. Zeri in V.Sgarbi, Corriere della Sera- Roma, 14-4-2006, page 3) |
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| HOW IT WAS ... | HOW IT IS ... | |||||||||||||||||||
 Morpugo Architect |
 Meier Architect |
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| A NEW MUSEUM FOR THE ARA PACIS AND A PROPER PIAZZA | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The projects below aim at presenting
the suggestions from some of the worldwide leading architects and
urban planners specialised in the field of Urban Renaissance as an
alternative to the proposal put forward by modernist architects such
as Richard Meier (completed in 2006!), Frank Gehry, Peter Eisemann,
Tadao Ando, etc. in 1996. For its relevant historic background the
ARA PACIS PIAZZA offers a unique opportunity to address the problems
of the restoration and redevelopment of ancient urban centres. For
its symbolic values, the redevelopment of the Piazza will constitute
a model for future interventions in other Italian historic sites.
The area is the result of a huge operation of demolition (1934-37)
of the historic blocks and squares which formed the rich urban neighbourhood
of the "Rione Campo Marzio", between the Tiber and the Corso
avenue. While the first works of demolition occurred in 1870 as part
of the works for the creation of the series of boulevards which flank
the Tiber from Ponte Milvio to Castel S. Angelo - and the historic
Ripetta Harbour disappeared in front of the Church of S. Girolamo
degli Schiavoni in order to leave room to the construction of the
new Cavour bridge -the most dramatic part of the demolition works
started in 1934 within the ambitious project of reconstruction of
the ARA PACIS monument and the archaeological restoration of the AUGUSTUS
MAUSOLEUM. The reconstruction of the ARA PACIS Monument represent
one of the most successful achievements of that age in the cultural
field... but today something goes wrong!
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 Maurice Culot, Joseph Altuna (1996) |
 Leon Krier (1996) |
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 Duany Plater Zyberk (1996) |
 Michael Lykoudis (1996) |
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The project for the ARA PACIS PIAZZA
should present a proposal for
- the New Museum Building for the Ara Pacis, containing a restaurant-café a library specialised on the reconstruction of ancient Roman monuments, and a bookshop; - the construction of a Monument and a Hospital for the Roman cats; - the reconstruction of the historic urban fabric around the Augustus Mausoleum; - the achievement of the Augustus Mausoleum as a permanent building; - the improvement of the connection between the urban quarter and the Tiber. |
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 Liam O'Connor Architects (1996) |
International Competition organized by Gabriele Tagliaventi 5 PROJECTS FOR ARA PACIS  see A&C N.5 - 1996 GANGEMI EDITORE |
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| THE CONFERENCE OF THE MONTH | ||||||||||||||||||||
| THE
VENICE CHARTER REVISITED CONFERENCE Modernism and Conservation in the postwar world 3-5 November 2006, Venice, Italy |
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Organization:
INTBAU www.intbau.org Event supporters: Politecnico di Bari, Department of Architectures University of Miami Department of Architecture |
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The 2006 conference of the International
Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU)
will examine philosophies of conservation, scrutinise the Venice Charter
in the context of its times, and hear case studies of the Charter
as it has applied in the 42 years since its adoption.
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| THE EXHIBITION OF THE MONTH | ||||||||||||||||||||
| "LES
FABULEUSES RUINES DE DETROIT" (The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit) an exhibition related to the Motown's forgotten monuments |
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June 13 > July 8 - 2006 |
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| THE BOOK OF THE MONTH | ||||||||||||||||||||
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GENIUS OF THE EUROPEAN SQUARE |
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by An International Making Cities Livable Publication 240 pages; 80 illustrations
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One of the greatest inventions of the
European city, indeed one could not conceive of most European cities
without it, is the central town square or market place. This was a
uniquely European invention, intimately connected to the development
of democratic and representational self-government… Whether
called agora, forum, piazza, plaza, Platz, platea, piata, nám?sti,
rynek, trg or market place the main square has been a distinguishing
characteristic of European cities in one form or another for over
two thousand years. During the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries
hundreds of market squares were created as the center of new European
cities from Spain to Sweden and from Belgium to Hungary. The medieval
market place fostered the development of community, culture and democracy…
by S.H. Crowhurst Lennard, H. L. Lennard |
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S T A R W A R
S Writing Credits: George Lucas cast: Action / Adventure / Fantasy |
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| THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE FUTURE CAN BE MUCH MORE INTERESTING THAN YOU EXPECT . . . | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| BEAUTY AND
REAL HIGH-TECHNOLOGY GO TOGETHER ! |
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| COMPETITION OF THE MONTH | ||||||||||||||||||||
| STOCKHOLM
PUBLIC LIBRARY INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION |
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The Stockholm Public Library, designed by Gunnar Asplund, has been the city's main library since it was inaugurated nearly 75 years ago. It is not only one of the city's most important buildings architecturally, but the library is also a very important public building for the inhabitants of Stockholm. The aim is to ensure tha the buildings remains to bea public library also in the future. Stockholm as city is expanding, its inhabitants are becoming younger and more multicultural, at the same time as the knowledge society is developing. That is why the library also needs to be improved, extended and given new functions. |
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| MASTERPIECES OF 20th CENTURY ARCHITECTURE |
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PLACE
DU TROCADERO
International Exhibition of Arts and Techniques Paris, France, 1937 L. Azema, L.H. Boileau, P. Carlu |
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| GOOD NEWS AGENCY | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The
Schloss reconstruction in Berlin GOES AHEAD ! |
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 View of the Schloss from the Zeughaus - 2005 |
 View of the Schloss from the Zeughaus - 2015 |
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