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Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems: a comprehensive approach to urban flood risk management in Padova

Costruire la distanza per capire il presente: Manfredo Tafuri e il corso sulla storia dell’ideologia antiurbana (1972-73) a Venezia

The theme of distance represents a central problem in the scientific biography of the architectural historian Manfredo Tafuri (1935-1994). This paper aims to investigate Tafuri's working method starting from the sources used and the teaching material prepared for the academic course about the History of Antiurban Ideology, held by him at the IUAV in the 1972-73, in which Venice appears for the first time in a historical perspective: as the link in a chain that, through contradictory paths, c...

Grenada. Echoes of Knowledge. Reawakening the National Library

La ricerca presentata nel Padiglione e nel catalogo si sviluppa attraverso due aree tematiche dedicate al "Simbolo" e al "Meta-progetto", che riflettono prospettive complementari tra pragmatismo e visione teorica. La sezione "Meta-progetto", tra intelligenza naturale e collettiva, si concentra sulla creazione di un'identità architettonica adatta all'ambiente unico di Grenada, incorporando tecnologie sostenibili e rispettando le esigenze culturali locali. La seconda sezione, "Il Simbolo", ri...

Tailored Solutions for the Sustainable Transition of the Built Environment: The Specific Context as Information Source

The contribution illustrates and analyses the results of research aimed at identifying innovative technologies and operating methodologies which could steer the Italian North-East built environment and construction sector towards an increase in sustainability. In particular, the identified solutions can be implemented on the urban or architectural scale, and their effectiveness is determined based on two main features. On the one hand, the benefits they prove within three domains—energy trans...