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Constructing the Dream Villas on Display in Italy in 1933 & 1964

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Constructing the Dream : Villas on Display in Italy in 1933 and 1964

The increasing interest in the concept of the so-called ‘escape’ from the city, fueled by the recent pandemic, puts the holiday villa at the centre of research attention. The fate of the villa in contemporary architecture and research culture reflects its ...

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Forms and Technologies of Italy’s Villa-mania (1955 -1970)

Michela Bonomo

The increasing interest towards the concept of the so called ‘escape from the city’, fueled by the recent pandemic, prompt us to put the holiday villa at the center of research attention. In the collective imagination the villa is a manifesto of 'the good ...

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In the collective imagination, the villa is a manifesto of ‘the good life’, often representing for architects a laboratory for stylistic experimentation, as an exception in their portfolio. The fate of the villa in contemporary architecture and research cu ...

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‘How To Build a Villa By The Sea’ The Implicit Project of Villa-mania in Post-war Italy (1948-1973)

Michela Bonomo

In the collective imagination the villa is a manifesto of 'the good life’, often representing for architects a laboratory of experimentation and style and an exception in their portfolio. The fate of the villa in contemporary architecture and research cult ...

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The Fifth Typology

Pier Vittorio Aureli

Conception, organization and introduction Rafael Moneo once said that to talk about type in architecture is to talk about the essence of architecture. Indeed, when conceiving architecture is almost impossible to not start from an existing type, no matter h ...

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A type is not a model or an image to be copied, but the deep structure of how things are put together. The Symposium revisits the concept of type by critically reading its previous deﬁnitions and by offering a new interpretation of this rather elusive, but ...

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Conference abstract: A type is not a model or an image to be copied, but the deep structure of how things are put together. The Symposium revisits the concept of type by critically reading its previous deﬁnitions and by offering a new interpretation of thi ...

2023

Inactivation mechanisms of influenza A virus within the micro-environment of expiratory bioaerosols

Athanasios Nenes, Tamar Kohn, Kalliopi Violaki, Ghislain Gilles Jean-Michel Motos, Aline Laetitia Schaub, Shannon Christa David, Walter Hugentobler

Approximately 400’000 deaths are associated with influenza virus every year. Whilst currently dwarfed by the COVID-19 pandemic, influenza continues to circulate within the human population since the first recorded 1918 pandemic over a century ago. During t ...

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The concept of New Brutalism has been the victim of a series of misunderstandings, myths and aporias. The initial intentions, devoid of any principle or dogma, have passed from hand to hand. The original definitionâif only one can be identifiedâhas be ...

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