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Manzoni: Dr. "Azzeccagarbugli"
Picture by Francesco Gonin, 1840 edition of Alessandro Manzoni's "I promessi sposi"
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Picture by Francesco Gonin, 1840 edition of Alessandro Manzoni's "I promessi sposi"
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Hello, among these pictures there is the law faculty of "La Sapienza".
The Minerva statue has a legend among the old alumns of all faculties: "don't look into the Minerva's eyes before any exam!"
That's mean that it is not good to challenge the god of war and the justice, but it's just a story.
A.Festucci
Futurist architecture.
At the heart of the attention of the architects futurists there is the city, having regard as a symbol of the dynamism and modernity. At the beginning of 1914 Antonio Sant ' Elia, the main architect, publish "Il Manifesto dell' architettura futurista" in which exposes the principles of this current.
All projects created by these relate to cities in the future, with particular attention to innovation. As opposed to classical, view as static and monumental, architecture cities idealised by architects futurists have as a fundamental feature the movement and transport.
The futurists, understood immediately the central role that transports would subsequently entered into the life of the cities. In this period projects you seek developments and purposes of this new. The Futurist utopia is a city in perpetual change, flexible and mobile in every part, a continuous shipyard in construction, and the Futurist House in the same way is impregnated dynamism.
Also the use of elliptic and oblique symbolizes this rejection of the static for a more dynamic projects futurists, without an acquaintances understanding symmetry. Futurism anticipates the major issues and the visions of architecture and the city will own the modern movement, even if the Italian rationalism will lose a little between the neoclassicism simplified Marcello Piacentini dispute and the purity of a Terragni Giuseppe and fail to have the same innovative, momentum while his poetics apart expresses Angiolo Mazzoni.
Michele Viti
Modernism
what I like very much is the modernist style that prevails in the cities of Barcelona
As for the architecture, the term modernism or liberty we define a set of architectural styles with similar characteristics, which arose around the beginning of the twentieth century in Europe, coinciding with the Art Nouveau.
In recent years, a number of architects from around the world began developing new architectural solutions to integrate traditions (such as Gothic) with new technological possibilities. The work of Louis Sullivan in Chicago, Victor Horta in Brussels, Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona, Otto Wagner in Vienna and Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Glasgow, among many others, can be considered as contrasts between old and new.
Although it was developed as the current architecture in Europe, modernism is still connected to its place of origin, precisely Catalonia.
Towards the end of the nineteenth century created architectural trends in Europe that break the bridges with the criteria of the past, going in search of new forms. This movement arises as a result of the industrial revolution and the progress it has emerged.
Modernism rejects unattractive style of industrial architecture of the first half of the nineteenth century, and develops new architectural concepts inspired by nature.
The development of modernism has been favored in Catalonia from the culture of the Catalan bourgeoisie, very cultured and sensitive artistic.
Over a hundred architects were the architects of Catalan modernist buildings. These examples are Antonio Gaudí, Lluís Domènech i Montaner and Josep Puig i Cadafalch.
A place of considerable importance is occupied by a particular kind of modernism, the Catalan. Modernism (in Catalan language) is an architectural style developed in Barcelona, the Spanish city of Catalonia, between 1880 and 1930, corresponding to Art Nouveau, but as with some unique characteristics.
Although it was developed as the current architecture in Europe, modernism is still connected to its place of origin, precisely Catalonia.
Towards the end of the nineteenth century created architectural trends in Europe that break the bridges with the criteria of the past, going in search of new forms. This movement arises as a result of the industrial revolution and the progress it has emerged.
Modernism rejects unattractive style of industrial architecture of the first half of the nineteenth century, and develops new architectural concepts inspired by nature.
The development of modernism has been favored in Catalonia from the culture of the Catalan bourgeoisie, very cultured and sensitive artistic.
Over a hundred architects were the architects of Catalan modernist buildings. These examples are Antonio Gaudí, Lluís Domènech i Montaner and Josep Puig i Cadafalch.
Gaudì and his work
Nearly all the work of the master is connected to the Catalan capital, the only Spanish city where at the turn of XIX and XX century had demonstrated the principle of industrial development, the father of modernism in which Gaudi is revealed to be the leading exponent in homeland .
His career as an architect is characterized by the development of exceptional and unpredictable forms and oneiric, implemented using many different materials (brick, stone, ceramics, glass, iron), which Gaudí was able to draw the maximum opportunity for expression.
Casa Milà called La Pedrera, Barcelona
Park Güell, Barcelona
Casa Batlló, Barcelona
Casa Vicens, Barcelona
The deep Catholic faith of Gaudí, his spirituality and his peculiar mysticism permeates all his works, dotted symbolic complex of reasons, recurrent and often not immediately apparent.
Not less important is the conviction of belonging to the Catalan independence movement, radically opposed to centralism and ideologically Castilian language. The claim of Madrid to impose an orthogonal urban development to the city of Barcelona, consistent with the dictates of rationalism dominant in the old continent, brought to the Catalan architects take a divergent path decisamente: oblique lines that affect the vision and bumpy geometric rationalistic and its claims which are not really urban. The buildings erected by the Catalan modernists, the ways they have drawn with the use of a little 'all architectural styles were the most striking way to challenge the centralism of Madrid and its attempts to impose an architectural and urban order based on the dictates d' a rationalism that was establishing itself in various parts of the world.
Among the most important works of Gaudì's work:
Casa Vicens (1883-1888, Barcelona)
Il Capriccio (1883-1885, Comillas)
Pavilions Güell (1884-1887, Barcelona)
Palau Güell (1886-1888, Barcelona)
Teresian College (1888-1890, Barcelona)
Episcopal palace (1889-1893, Astorga)
Botines House (1892, León)
Cellars Güell (1895-1901, Garraf)
Casa Calvet (1898-1900, Barcelona)
Bellesguard (1900, Barcelona)
Park Güell (1900-1914, Barcelona)
Restoration of the Cathedral of Santa Maria di Palma de Mallorca (1904-1914, Palma de Mallorca)
Casa Batlló (1904-1907, Barcelona)
Casa Milà (known as La Pedrera) (1906-1912, Barcelona)
Crypt of Colonia Güell (1898-1915, Santa Coloma de Cervelló)
Sagrada Familia (1883-1926, Barcelona), his masterpiece.
A.Festucci
we've been talking about law3 and architecture; the thing that most comes to my mind is the demolition of the architectural feature that denies access to people who are forced to live in a different way.
it's the law that constrains building contractors to arrange the appropriate structures, ergonomic structures.
That's not human: only with a constriction, people who need the most to be protected, are considered women and men as the "others"that live n the standing world.
It's completetely true what professor said: without a rule there's the anarchy.
hello everybody..
I was impressed about the law&architecture theme...I could never imagine that somehow they could have hings in common!!!!!
Thinking about cities and architecture,, I though that Rome was an exellent example : just see our parks, how grass grows everywhere and nobody cares about it..the whole city is completely cahotic, as everyone can see, BUT in this caos there is still a kind of order : the population adapts itself to the problems of the streets and of the city, so that they can live a normal life still in this crazy caos..think about a tourist who comes ti rome..nothing is simple, street numbers are in disorder, not always the name of the streets can be read (we, as romans, have so many difficulties, don't we??), to find somthing, for example a monument, it in never simple to catch the right bus and go directly to it...think about it!!!!
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see you!
Dear all,
I just wanted to mention a book I was reading last weekend, as we talked together with professor Watt about law and architecture: "Vento scomposto" by Simonetta Agnello Hornby.
She was born in Palermo, but she studied law in London, where she actually lives and works both as lawyer and writer.
She deals with the translation of her books too (and this is a very good thing, as none better than the author himself could use the right words to rebuild his work in a different language, without losing the idea of the whole construction or misunderstanding it). the english version of it is "There is nothing wrong with Lucy"...it's a well written novel and quite astonishing...however I won't reveal you the plot, in order not to kill the pleasure of reading it if you would like to...
But I mention this work for two reasons:
1. first it's a novel, but it deals with the legal system, particularly with The Children's Act (1989), an important english law on kids protection from domestic abuses, so we could maybe put it in our list of law and literature works (as Simonetta is an italian writer and this novel is on legal world, even if english one...the social backgroung however is the same, while the answers given by the lawgiver to the same problems seem quite different.. a comparison could be made...);
2. the author describes the Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London, both from an internal and external point of view: she mentions the architectural solutions used to give the idea of Justice and to cut a good impression when you walk in the streets near to it, but also feelings and emotions of the protagonists of the trial and the impression they had while entering...
it gave me also the opportunity to think about the link among law and other sciences, for instance legal medicine (medical jurisprudence)...but if the experts seem to be proud of them, at the same time they often forget (as we often underline in our lectures) the deep link among law and the humanities...
as law was born to allow people to live together peacefully...Robinson Crusoe wasn't aware of that untill Friday's arrive...
See you round!
Camilla
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