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Paola Tosolini

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A LOVE PILGRIMAGE. Luigi Figini's Travels to Ibiza and the Lessons of vernacular Architecture

In 1950 Luigi Figini travelled to Ibiza. He named this journey a “love pilgrimage” to the most western of the “isole beate” (holy islands), to one of the earthly paradises of white architecture. It wasn’t the first such island he had visited since he has a ...

T6) Ediciones - Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura. Universidad de Navarra2010

Contaminazioni linguistiche

Paola Tosolini

In contemporary debates about sustainable development, vernacular architecture plays an important role. Presenting itself as a dictionary of man’s constructive logic, it declares with no uncertainty its own usefulness, its connection to the soil, to the cl ...

EPFL2009

Other itineraries: modern architects on countryside roads

Paola Tosolini

For some architects at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century, the interest in vernacular architecture was partially linked to the experience of travel. This interest often revealed a new way of taking position against the ste ...

2008

In 1919 in an essay entitled Tradition and the Individual Talent T. S. Eliot stated that a poet “is not likely to know what is to be done unless he lives in what is not merely the present, but the present moment of the past, unless he is conscious, not of ...

IASTE Center for Environmental Design Research2008

Vernacular Landscape: memory of a present continuous

Paola Tosolini

In 1984, in his Discovering the Vernacular Landscape, John Brinckerhoff Jackson stated that it is through the study of the vernacular that we could finally arrive to give a complete definition of the landscape and of its beauty because it expresses the ide ...

Ministero de Fomento CEDEX-CEHOPU, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid2007

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