Abstract
When compared with the central-eastern ones, the Western Alps have experienced a growing marginality in the new century. After all, getting out of the heavy legacy left by twentieth-century modernisation – abandonment of territories and tourism – is not easy. Today, however, there seems to be some evidence of a radical change in sensitivity, characterised by an awareness of the potential and limits of the contemporary architecture in relation to local dimension. This is how environment, landscape, history, traditions, heritage are no longer just a “fetish” to be exhibited for the mountain users, but become the threads with which contemporaneity tries to mend the ties interrupted with the territories. Quality architecture no longer seems to be just a self-referential exercise of composition, but a conscious opportunity to translate the demands, imaginaries, expectations, identities of the territories, in physical projects. Projects that are within the processes and that necessarily respond to compromises, in which sometimes the aesthetic-formal aspect is only one among all that control the project, that become the result of extremely diversified and contrasting questions. This working condition, always at the edge of the processes, inevitably also affects the forms of architecture, in which the difficulties and precariousness of the operational context become a prerequisite for the characterisation of the figurative and architectural aspects.
Highlights
Traduttrice di istanze complesse, essa si ritaglia piccoli spazi di movimento nelle trame delle realtà socio-economiche locali, portando innovazione nei modi e nelle tecniche, interpretando con rigore critico le peculiarità dei territori e dei patrimoni
Far from the accommodating clichés of the international architectural mainstream and the easy certainties of consolidated and repeated rhetoric, contemporary architecture in the Western Alps seems to be making its way with courage
The works presented in this volume aim to fabricate a choral story, where architecture becomes a “built” testimony of the transformations taking place in the contemporary mountain territory: from the production of culture to the inhabiting practices, from facilities to landscape and heritage
Summary
I servizi e la produzione nelle Alpi / Invention as a form of resistance. Profundius, suavius, tre coordinate dell’abitare contemporaneo / Lentius, profundius, suavius, three coordinates of contemporary living
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