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ALESSANDRA MARINO .- The new Superintendent of Bologna

This article was adapted from The Republic of May 19.

" BOLOGNA - Alessandra Marino is the new superintendent

BRUNELLA TORRESIN - Tuesday, May 19, 2009, THE REPUBLIC - Bologna

Alessandra Marino's appointment is the new superintendent of Architectural Heritage and Landscape in Bologna (Modena and Reggio Emilia): young architect, Roman of birth, Florentine by adoption, was an official of the Regional Direction of Cultural Heritage and landscape of Tuscany until the contest organized by the Ministry for executives, topped with excellent results, has opened the way to Bologna. Sabina Ferrari is to replace the role the former superintendent has held since 2002, sharing the premises between Verona and Bologna, and finding himself at the center of many controversy: the authorizations granted to change the ex Stock Exchange for the use of the endless controversy over private terrace, from skirmishes with Mayor Cofferati on regulations governing use of Piazza Maggiore, the complaints against the construction of the Civis. Alessandra Marino has long been a close collaborator of the Regional Director for the Cultural Heritage of Tuscany Mario Lolli Ghetti, according to which 'good choice for Bologna, the Ministry could not do. " Shy and reserved, so describe it, an expert on restoration, Marino is a professor of architectural restoration of the Laboratory of the Faculty of Architecture of Ferrara. It has already settled in the Palazzo Dall'Armi Marescalchi.

For Alessandra Marino my best wishes now Bologna is in excellent hands. I was lucky to have her as a speaker of a thesis and is truly an extraordinary person who taught me a lot.
Good luck prof.!

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Tomorrow: The delivery of the stamp

In a sense, like the knights in the Middle Ages it was the investiture of newly officially handed over the sword ...

so, for architects, is to take the stamp :-)

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wrong window (Siena, via Dupré) The

The fake windows are my true passion
:-) I am presenting this, the first of many, comes from Siena, is on the side wall of a building on Via Dupre and very rare because it has a crude (and curious) error of perspective.
The window type is rare, is a window to 4 door, Siena there are only a dozen, and this is by far the best preserved, probably dates from the eighteenth century . Look at the open door
: the frame of the window is doubled, so that the door-rather curiously, seems to be open or closed simultaneously. The sealing of glass is straight and not looking ahead, surely those who painted this trompe l'oeil painter-a simple-probably did not know.

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Beppe Severgnini face of Michelangelo

A dear friend of mine, originally from Fiesole, I did see the profile of an important man with a nose and thick curly hair, roughly carved on a stone of the facade of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence on the left side at eye level.
Apparently, my friend said that during a meeting of people of Florence (or a public ceremony), Michelangelo, who was holding one of its instruments, has deceived the boredom by drawing the profile.

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2 - Have you seen the walls?

Severgnini Here's another quote, again taken from The head of the Italians.

Have you seen the walls? Brick. Everywhere. Bricks in the eye. Brick similar in size and color. Brick on brick churches and the houses, brick on brick and restaurants on the inputs. But the Tuscan was a symphony of plaster, made with local materials, so as to bring the colors of the walls? Why, then, this skinning? I do not know, but I have a suspicion you like Italy [Severgnini is aimed at foreign-ed]-colored brick. And 'the reproduction of your winter dreams. We Italians have to offer it? Maybe not, but we do.
Our willingness to please is producing pretty disasters. Pienza and Montepulciano, and Cortona Casale Marittimo, Casole d'Elsa and San Gimignano: the most beautiful places were shelled with diligence. In trying to keep up Umbria (Spoleto, Città della Pieve, Assisi, even). The result is a strange perfection, a rustic / country is not where the modern neo-Tudor in Great Britain (there logs, bricks here). But the English, at least, is a revival. Ours is a fake.
The practice of skinning is not new. It dates from the nineteenth century and the myth of historicism. All monuments, until then, had plastered and painted it: even the stones and marbles were painted. Romanesque architecture were also covered with a thin plaster and then painted in imitation of brick. The ancients could not stand it that attracts us. The differences in color and finish materials in sight.
Why then remove the protective plaster walls? It 's like if we went around in a bathing suit in winter. When you see the usual brick arch that floats like a cork soprauna plastered facade, know that it is past the Skinner Gentile. When you enter in the farm with bricks yellow (it looks like housing in Watford: the English will feel at home), hailed the Apprentice Skinner. When v'imbattete in Pieve Desnuda, think: the architect who has tanned well acts as the Italian chef in New York puts it in the menu Fettuccine Alfredo. In Italy I am not asking anyone. But the Americans claim, and woe be to not provide them.
Explanations of the phenomenon? Psychological reasons (curiosity: Let's see what's below), psychoanalysis (the plaster as the dress of a loved one), economic (galling is it to work, and work means money). But I insist too often we choose to adapt the image of Italy fantasies of the guests. We offer a huge mental Tuscany, which begins and ends at the Tarvisio Trapani. We are now the world's largest producers of sensations. Maybe we should patent it and sell them: we could call in the sixth, the trade balance.

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Beppe Severgnini 1 - The house color highlighter

Beppe Severgnini is not an architect, but wrote brilliant pages in my arms on the obscenity that you see around. This piece is adapted from his book The head of the Italians.

A ghost wanders about in Italy: a semi-colored marker. Yellow acid, orange reflector , green surgical, chemical blue, blue toothpaste , carmine psychedelic : the colors are synthetic, for some time, stain the landscape. One turns the corner, stands before a wall beam and thinks the owner has the wrong color! Well, yes and no. The color was chosen and paid: these special colors, made of titanium or nickel, costing three times the normal colors. But the decision was made on a sample of 4 x 4 cm, which led the lady to squeal "Cute." But the blue tooth, covering the entire facade becomes disturbing, psychedelic carmine - pop version of the ancient 'houses - causing failure, the orange reflector is only suitable to the visions of a Minister of Ukraine or the hallucinations of a Dutch footballer. But it is done: the landlord must accept the reality. Every night, coming back, he sees his real estate marker that stands down the street. The trauma, the winter is somewhat attenuated: the early darkness covered the error color (darkness is always merciful to urban planning). But now, when the light summer Fell pitiless walls, is hard. The swallows will choose other shelters, the postman will be presented with the sunglasses, but the owner must return to his house subversive, and atone for his pain every day. [our bold]

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Saverio Muratori

" I had to make very considerable effort to get rid of the clichés acquired as a child of modern juvenile wishful thinking, I have used all the experience from twenty to forty 'year to identify issues from contemporary culture, from forty years later, with the study of the urban fabric of Venice and Rome, I came to understand the laws of typical urban forms and the cyclical nature of world cities, as that of man, I spent ten years working on the question of territory, and then I faced the problem of self, that is the adventure of civilization [Saverio Muratori]

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I Muratorian . Not so much because I love its architecture often not appreciating that fact, but because of the Mason- Thought.
Although I base a lot of my ideas about architecture and my love for minor building on the studies Caniggia and Maffei, I know that without him there would be those studies.

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The catalog of horrors

This is my hit parade. No, the music has nothing to do. It
My personal catalog of horrors , that is all that I never wanted to see and, unfortunately, I have seen (and forgotten).

5th place
post-modern villa with the main facade consists of pseudo greek pediment with a lot of circular portholes in the middle (it was probably the bathroom window) and copper roofing. Unfortunately this is a very popular genre in our suburbs.

4th place
The "home with chicken pox" in the words of my professor of restoration, or those "lovely & graceful" windows cut into the plaster of the humble dwellings of the old town (or noble residences) to expose the exhaust arches, lintels, blocks of stone to reinforce the corners and so on: it is useless to explain how to make a window in the plaster of a building 70 to showcase the concrete pillar.

3 ° PLACE
a must in the pseudo-rustic rustic pizza, especially when placed in the industrial area of \u200b\u200bthe city in very modern buildings: the fake floor / ceiling of wood (if all goes well with wooden beams, if it goes wrong beams with plastic). In one case, the "beams" were fixed to the wall is very evident with anchors, leaving at least two fingers of space between the head and the wall pseudotrave. When friends tell me: did you see that there is beautiful wooden ceiling eh?, usually I go across the pizza.

2ND PLACE
chains (the ones that sell hardware store in the metro, just for instance, and which are usually used to block the driveways and moor vessels) in place of gutters. The chain in question down to a sort of shelter (?) Projecting in the width of about one meter. The house was a second home in the sea in that of Grosseto, in style rather rationalist style Waterfall House economic version. Unfortunately I am not able to see the chain-gutters at work because it was not raining, but the existential question remains: will we live the descendant of an Executioner of the Bastille, which has recycled tools of his ancestors, or the scrap dealer's cousin gave a gift?

1st place
postmodern building with a facade constructed from glass and smoked over each "window" (ie a sheet of glass and two not, the board) a kind of small drum pseudodorico unidentified material. I shudder at the mere memory.

short, if our houses could talk, as he put an advertisement a few years ago ...

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Hello everyone: My name is Elena and I am an architect.
But do not think the "real" creative architect who dresses in black, he spends his nights ago to draw and render with the Rhinoceros.
No, my love is restored, the old walls, the plaster wall a little faded and peeling.
I love the minor architecture, the genius of the Gothic cathedrals, houses stacked one on top of Siena and Assisi, the narrow stone-paved streets. I love the trompe l'oil
doors and windows, fake medieval tapestries, the ceilings with wooden beams, the painted facades, wrought-iron grates.
I do not like postmodernism, the terraced houses On the outskirts, houses the violent unlikely colors.
Of all this I want to talk, so I created my blog: Why this immense wealth, of which the walls of every city shall keep a record, to look and look, fade and are lost every year that passes, and is lost forever .