Over the past 20 years, the contemporary city aims to reorder a new monumentality through which to redeem pieces of incomplete and degraded urban areas. Museums, theaters, stations and new settlements claiming the role of new polarities able to reorganize the physical relations system with pieces of ancient formation cities. The re-establishment of new monuments rests on old symbolic assumptions replacing the church and town hall as a place of collective recognition. The architectural codes derived from it are configured through a system of signs in which the linear outline of the building loses the reference to volumetric conciseness and is welded to the game of scalar sudden jumps. In this respect, the architectural expression suggests continuous shifting of meanings and participates in the reversal of the traditional meaning of the Monument. The system of "complexities and contradictions", anticipated by Robert Venturi 50 years ago, is confirmed, though renovated in the physical / psychological relationship between various elements, in the kit of signs, combinations and visionary impulses that impress themselves in the most recent results of the contemporary architectural scene.
New Monuments in Renovated Urban Areas. Roma: Science City, Varese: New Theatre,
GAMBARDELLA, Carmine
2016
Abstract
Over the past 20 years, the contemporary city aims to reorder a new monumentality through which to redeem pieces of incomplete and degraded urban areas. Museums, theaters, stations and new settlements claiming the role of new polarities able to reorganize the physical relations system with pieces of ancient formation cities. The re-establishment of new monuments rests on old symbolic assumptions replacing the church and town hall as a place of collective recognition. The architectural codes derived from it are configured through a system of signs in which the linear outline of the building loses the reference to volumetric conciseness and is welded to the game of scalar sudden jumps. In this respect, the architectural expression suggests continuous shifting of meanings and participates in the reversal of the traditional meaning of the Monument. The system of "complexities and contradictions", anticipated by Robert Venturi 50 years ago, is confirmed, though renovated in the physical / psychological relationship between various elements, in the kit of signs, combinations and visionary impulses that impress themselves in the most recent results of the contemporary architectural scene.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
