Landscape Architecture Design (2024)

disP -The Planning Review Giorgio Piccinato — Any Place for Urban Conservation in the Post-Modern Metropolis

An inhabited bridge between city and countryside, in Bertelli G., Bracchi P., Mei P. (edited by), ARCHITECTURE FOR A CREATIVE CITY Piacenza towards Expo, Maggioli, Rimini 2015

ARCHITECTURE FOR A CREATIVE CITY Piacenza towards Expo, Bertelli G., Bracchi P., Mei P.

With its propagation beyond the ancient walls in the countryside, the contemporary urban pattern of Piacenza flakes off, is frayed, making feeble the limit between rus and urbs; the continuous and porous old town gives way to the sprawl. In this project, the main idea is that, through small signs, defined by thematic pavilions (which are the general goal to achieve according to the Summer School), the effects can affect the urban scale, in a much wider field than the real area of intervention. So in this case the pavilion itself is thought as a bridge on the threshold between city and countryside. Moreover, the soil design, starting from the edges of the city, allows to fix the starting point of a succession of paths picking up those parts of the city now forgotten and isolated.

Historic Urban Landscape: Managing Heritage in an Urban Century (Indice Prefacio y Capitulo I). Authors: Bandarin, Francesco and van Oers, Ron.

Bandarin, Francesco and van Oers, Ron. Historic Urban Landscape: Managing Heritage in an Urban Century. Ed. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. 2012 [Bandarin F.y Van Oers R. El paisaje urbano histórico. La gestión del patrimonio en un siglo urbano. Madrid: Abada Editores, 2014]. Indice, Prefacio y Capítulo I (en ingles)

Cita en Benet, A., Azpeitia, A., Azkarate, A. (2020). Landscape and Urbanism in the 21st Century. Some Reflections on the State of Affairs. ACE Architecture, City and Environment

ACE Architecture, City and Environment, 2020

Abstract e-ISSN 1886-4805 For several decades, the notion of landscape has been instrumentalised by various fields of study and with the most diverse views and interests. This is a notion that brings together all the features of liminal spaces, areas characterised by their mediating nature. The success and rapid extension of the concept of landscape, however, has not yet seen a similar development in the methodological field nor is it achieving sufficient consensus to be applied to the administrative scope. In this contribution we will adjust our reflection around the idea of historic urban landscapes, highlighting the need to address the “change management” approach demanded by 21st-century cities. To this end, we shall delve into some new urban management initiatives, in which the “prosumer citizenship” is beginning to be a key element in the construction of the identity of the spaces inhabited. In the same vein, the scope and content of the emerging discipline of tactical urbanism will also be discussed, paying special attention to the limitations of “design thinking” in historic city centres; areas affected by environments that are frequently problematic, where the complex regulations of individual or collective tutelage that cultural assets require come into play. Keywords: Historic Urban Landscapes; Prosumer Citizenship; Tactical Urbanism; City Prosperity Initiative (CPI)

Strategy to re-active an urban landscape.pdf

To reactivate an urban landscape, through a complex system of relationships, needs a goal: trigger a course of identification based on cultural heritage like an “ID card”. To do this without losing the historical common memory, culture doesn’t have to be only for the “elite” but has to begin the raw nerve of the development. When Kevin Lynch wrote about wayfinding, it was not for tourists but for inhabitants whom daily live in that place: the field of “orientation” was essential for him like it was for Camillo Sitte. This theorist of urban planning (not fully understood) said that “the space and the city are important if they are active” and Wieczorek [33] explains that “active” means the rule of the spectator in the perception process. Recently, the experience of study, design and realization of Wayfinding Agrigento, has a aim: a local sustainable development that causes Agrigento to be a creative city, to re-start from its own identity, from its abandoned places, from its neglected architectures, from the difficult orography that characterizes its urban pattern. This project guides urban users throughout Girgenti (the historical center of Agrigento), into a slow rhythm of life, to stand out to the urban patterned identity, in a social progress of discovering and rediscovering of the historical heritage. The suggested paths are connected with a website that can also analyze city users’ movements in the historical center to plan services and public urban “gears” for the community. Girgenti starts to begin a real living organism that communicates and interacts with its urban users, reacts and dialogues with them, produces knowledge and triggers its regeneration.

Urban experiences: EMBT. Gas Natural´s building, Santa Caterina market and Diagonal-Mar park

2012

The tourist route, a mass phenomenon, is a guided, partial tour (induced by someone else). The guides define what should be visited. Yet strolling the streets and discovering requires time. We are at the end of the postcapitalist period; the situationalists’ derive, getting lost to find a new interpretation of the city are behind us. The city is planned to be visited out of our civilisation’s need to turn itself into a spectacle. This paper explores the relationship between the image of the city and the architecture, to determine what concept of city is implicit – through the architect’s eye – on the project. We based this on a study of three projects of Miralles-Tagliabue, in Barcelona, analysing the city andits transformation through the different experiences.

ArchiNews - Special Edition 2011 - ARQUITECTURA PAISAGISTA E ECOLOGIA URBANA LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN ECOLOGY

The LINK Landscape Architecture and Ecology Doctoral Degree Program, a partnership between three universities (Lisbon’s Técnica and the universities of Oporto and Coimbra), was launched in 2009 with Lisbon hosting its first year before Coimbra took over in 2010 under the direction of Helena Freitas with Oporto running the 2011-2012 academic year supervised by Teresa Andresen. Sixteen doctorate holding professors form the program’s educational core combining to ensure the highest standards in landscape architecture and urban ecology research. The international scope of the LINK teaching program and its staff reflects our intention to endow the program with a global reach, with English as the common language, while nurturing its roots in Southern Europe. As from 2008, the contribution made by by Professor Carl Steinitz, a researcher and Professor at Harvard University throughout four decades, towards launching and running the program has underpinned the doctoral program’s approach to theoretical and practical teaching in the fields of landscape planning and design.

DE INFRAESTRUCTURA VIAL A ESPACIO URBANO. TRANSFORMACIÓN DE VIA FLAMINIA EN UN NUEVO EJE CULTURAL DE ROMA FROM ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE TO URBAN SPACE. TRANSFORMING VIA FLAMINIA INTO A NEW CULTURAL AXIS OF ROME

I. Forino, Interstitial Gardens, in B. Bonfantini, I. Forino, eds., Urban Interstices in Italy: Design Experiences, 138-145, 166-167, LetteraVentidue, Siracusa 2021.

2021

Invited member of INTEGRO_UAD International Group on Urban and Architecture Design, Dipartimento di Architettura, Universita Degli Studi, Firenze, Italy, Partner: David Grierson, 2016

The international research group aims to provide multidisciplinary research and studies on innovative issues within the " City in Change " and its cultural heritage (tangible and intangible). The research methodologies will address theory and application in urban context of inner and outer areas in order to identify new approaches of intervention, based on ecological and sustainable principles. The way of thinking will define new urban models for new urban scenarios in different European contexts. Aims To define an innovative research in European Partnership and multidisciplinary To provide an international debate for knowledge, education and formation on Cities in Change, sharing ecological and sustainable design issues To explore the values of cultural heritage and its transformation To put " fixed points " in preserving, regenerating and developing tangible and intangible cultural heritage Masterplanning process in sensitive urban contexts and urban spaces and places ERC Panels SH3_1 Environment, resources and sustainability SH3_2 Environmental and climate change, societal impact SH3_7 Spatial development, land use, regional planning