Giancarlo De Research Articles

François Quesnay, Luigi Pasinetti and the historical contexts of economic theory

In 2002, Professor Luigi L. Pasinetti gave a keynote address at the Raffaele Mattioli Foundation and Library in honour of their acquisition of a rare third edition of François Quesnay’s Tableau Économique. This lecture subsequently appeared as a chapter in Italian in the conference volume edited by Giancarlo De Vivo in 2009. In honour of Luigi Pasinetti’s 90th birthday, Professor Coffman has offered the first English translation of Pasinetti’s essay on Quesnay, which she also introduces by reflecting on its rhetorical strategy, argumentative structure, and Pasinetti’s use of Quesnay to critique mainstream neoclassical economics. She ends her introduction by drawing attention to the place of the Tableau within contemporary debates about taxation and the optimal scale and capacities of the state.

Team 10, Lisbon, 1981. The Lost Meeting

Team 10 and Lisbon share a piece of history: namely, a few elements of Team 10, such as Alison and Peter Smithson, Amâncio Miranda Guedes, Giancarlo de Carlo and Jullian de la Fuente, and the Lisbon School of Architecture (or the “Lisbon School”). This text is about the specifics of this conjunction.
 This paper explores the short but necessary question of whether there was a last formal Team 10 meeting in Lisbon in 1981, and from that point on, it goes back to present: (1) a disclosure of the history of the word ‘revision’ within the teaching of architecture in the school, one which portraits the coming of the Team 10 elements just mentioned; it then (2) outlines the relationship of Team 10 elements with the Lisbon School, namely highlighting, on the one side, the school’s official attitude of support, and on the other side, the pedagogical grounds’ relative disinterest; and finally (3), the text suggests there is no clear answer to the question of whether there had been a formal Team 10 final meeting in Lisbon in 1981.
 Therefore, in conclusion, it delivers an argument about Lisbon being more than an informal gathering derived from a reunion intention; it considers this a happening that might just now emerge from the unspoken history of architecture as nothing more than a delicate moment, although it was Team 10’s last significant moment.

Epistemological critiques to the technocratic planning model: the role of Jane Jacobs, Paul Davidoff, Reyner Banham and Giancarlo De Carlo in the 1960s

During the 1960s, different critical voices emerged with regard to the main gaps of technocratic planning (what Jacobs calls ‘modern, orthodox city planning’), voices highlighting the oversimplifying epistemological approaches that had been characterising planning in the first half of the twentieth century. Jane Jacobs’ thought has been of paramount importance in influencing planning and urban discourses worldwide, but she has not been isolated: in the same years, other critical voices have been shaping a critical thought and fostering debate, on both sides of the Atlantic. Among them, Paul Davidoff, appealing for advocacy planning in NYC, Giancarlo De Carlo, proposing a sharp critique of architectural and planning education in Italy and Reyner Banham and his group, advocating the (paradoxical) possibility of non-planning in the UK. This article proposes to identify a relevant common feature across their positions in the connection between epistemological and political critique; as Jane Jacobs, many critics of traditional technocratic planning underline the inappropriate and ineffective mechanisms of knowledge production and use in urban planning: if cities are characterised by organised complexity (‘intricate social and economic order under the seeming disorder of cities’, as Jacobs puts it), then it is not possible to reduce them to ‘simple problems’. These authors develop their interpretative discourses in different ways, and advance different proposals to bridge this gap, combining in original ways the epistemological dimension with a political and a cultural one.

Discursive Design: The Discourse of the Built Work of Giancarlo De Carlo in Urbino, Italy

Discursive Design: The Discourse of the Built Work of Giancarlo De Carlo in Urbino, Italy

Keeping it modern, making it sustainable. Monitoring and energy retrofitting the Urbino University Colleges

This paper presents a research to balance building conservation, users’ comfort and energy efficiency of a masterpiece of XX century architecture. The Urbino University Colleges were designed by architect Giancarlo de Carlo and built since 1962 to 1983 beside the Renaissance city. They host more than 1,000 students within 5 dormitories and 62,000 m2 surface. Authors discuss some outcomes from the “Keeping it modern” research program financed by the Getty Foundation in 2016, which aims at providing the Colleges with a sustainable conservation plan. The goal is to lower heating and operational costs to allow funds in conservation activities. Specific issues regard: the striking dimensions of the complex, the constructive features (brickwork walls, exposed concrete structures, single-glazed windows) and the lack of data about the hygrothermal performances.The research thus includes a hygrothermal analysis, a proposal for the energy retrofitting, a building-HVAC model, a test on a pilot site. Authors have monitored surface temperatures, indoor air temperature and humidity for one year, even mapping their distribution through a digital psychrometer. Thermal imaging has been used to detect heat losses, thermal bridges and heat gains due to the solar radiation. Data have fed a building-HVAC model, which was a reference to design an appropriate strategy for retrofitting and improving the energy efficiency of the complex. Some solutions are being implemented on a pilot site. The building performances before and after retrofitting are compared.Results provide indications to merge conservation and sustainability of a XX century heritage building.In conclusion, the solid knowledge of each case confirms being required to support a retrofit proposal of a heritage building, moreover in case of a XX century building, as the cultural value of such a huge heritage is often disregarded to improve its energy performance.

Distant Reading Through Ontologies: The Case Study of Catania’s Benedictines Monastery

In this contribution, we developed a Linked Open Dataset, more specifically an OWL ontology, about the history of the renovation of the Catania’s Benedictines Monastery by the architect Giancarlo De Carlo. We considered a wide subset of public and private documents collected from 1977 to 2006 during the process of restoration and adaptation of the monastery to a campus for the University of Catania. The task of modelling and population of the ontology have been carried out from the analysis of documents stored in the “Archivio del Museo della Fabbrica”, in the new archive of professor Giuseppe Giarrizzo, in the private collection of Antonino Leonardi, and from the conceptual map of the locations of the monastery.

The catalogue of Piero Sraffa’s library: what can we learn from a bibliophile and his philological rigor?

In this review of the catalogue of Piero Sraffa’s library, painstakingly edited by Giancarlo De Vivo, we highlight the traces of Sraffa’s personal trajectory. We also focus on his bibliophilia, philological rigor and erudition, exemplified by his superb edition of the works and correspondence of David Ricardo.

Considerations on the Importation of Foreign Corn (1814) and the Principle of Comparative Advantage

The debate on authorship of the principle of comparative advantage has recently been enriched with several new arguments. In what can be considered the most important one of them, Giancarlo De Vivo claimed that a pamphlet called Considerations on the Importation of Foreign Corn published in 1814 by an anonymous author contains the first known formulation of the principle. The present paper tests this claim. It suggests the formulation contained in Considerations is incomplete.

Italy: A Post-Biopolitical Laboratory. From Pasolini’s "Il romanzo delle stragi” to De Cataldo’s <em>Romanzo criminale</em>

Author(s): Fabbri, Lorenzo | Abstract: On March 29, 1969, from the pages of Tempo, Pier Paolo Pasolini asks: “Do Novelistic Lives Still Exist?”. In this article, Pasolini wonders whether the novel is still a contemporary literary form or if it is rather something which belongs to the past. He concludes that, as long as the real retains its novelistic structure, the novel will not become outdated.But why did Pasolini pose the question of the novelistic in such a time in Italian history? Pasolini was compelled by the understanding that the bourgeois consumerism dominating Italy in the 1960s tended to eliminate the novelistic from reality, forcing pre-molded destinies upon the lives of the people. It is this very homologation that puts the novel at risk: If lives are no longer novelistic, then the novel cannot be the literary device which can best tell their stories.Yet, can those who write years after “Piazza Fontana” still agree with Pasolini’s historical-narratological thesis regarding the obsoleteness of the novel? After the discovery of State terrorism, can we still believe that the bourgeois State enforces its dominion over the present by inducing an ordered standardization and repressing the novelistic structure of the real?The spectacular series of detonations which bloodied a winter market day forces us to admit that the “Italian boom” ultimately led not to the triumph of order, but to a chaos that was all too novelistic. The Italy born out of Christmas ’69, the Italy of the 1970s, must then be understood as a noir, viscous as oil and populated by a multitude of characters worthy of the best crime novels.But if Italy truly is all of this, it would be a matter of denouncing the epos of a new governmental monster: a monster whose threat lies not in repressing the novelistic and producing disciplined uniformity, but in using lives and events that are strategically novelized to annihilate any possibility of resistance. A monster, therefore, with a “literary cote.”In this article, I argue that Giancarlo De Cataldo’s Romanzo criminale is one of the most ambitious attempts to denounce exactly such a new governmental literary monster. Novelizing the deeds of the Magliana Gang – from its seizing power in the 1970s to its withering in the 1980s – is, for De Cataldo, an opportunity to chart the State’s strategies to ward off any radical change and keep Italy stuck at the gates of history.

In remembrance of prof. Bruno Angelillo

Extract:I am very glad to speak about Professor Bruno Angelillo in this occasion (National Conference of Public Health, Naples 2009). Probably Giancarlo De Riu would have done this better of me, but he passed away over two years ago and now I want to associate him in memory with Prof. Angelillo, perhaps for the first time in our academic history. Accepting this task, I realised how emotionally deep and delicate it was, especially considering the professor as the Founder of the Neapolitan School of Hygiene. I hope you will forgive me if in this memory I have necessarily include some personal elements: I will start therefore with a declaration of a heavy conflict of interest! I met professor Angelillo in Cremona, our hometown, before my graduation in Parma. The following March I went for a interview at the Institute of Hygiene of Sassari and in April I moved on a permanent basis to that city! I left behind my student status as a little bit “dispersive”, finding in Bruno Angelillo and Giancarlo De Riu a reference and a guide capable of providing a new order in my life.

Č possibile riformare le scuole di architettura in Italia?

- The crisis of architectural schools in Italy and the profound uncertainty running through practices and the teaching of architectural and planning disciplines has roots which date back a long time. If we re-read today some of the texts and public actions of some of the greatest Italian architects or critics of architecture such as Giovanni Michelucci, Giancarlo De Carlo, Leonardo Benevolo and Bruno Zevi, in dissent with the scientific and academic communities to which they belonged, it is hard not to grasp, with the benefit of hindsight, the lucidity of their intellectual positions and the urgency of their arguments. Four episodes are presented which allow us to return to the issue of training architects in their relationship with the professional dimension and also with society and to consider more generally the crisis of inherited models of university education, which no longer seem able to meet the challenges of today.

Space of Criticism: Exhibitions and the Vernacular in Italian Modernism

In Italy during the Fascist regime as well as after the Second World War, a few seminal exhibitions and related publications challenged the status quo and redirected debates central to architecture and politics. Two exhibitions installed at the Milan Triennale valorized the study of vernacular buildings in opposition to the dominant classicizing tendency of state-sponsored architecture. Rural Italian Architecture: Functionality of the Rural House (1936), curated by Giuseppe Pagano and Guarniero Daniel, and Spontaneous Architecture Exhibition (1951), mounted by a team of architects, including Enzo Cerutti, Giancarlo De Carlo, and Giuseppe Samonà, demonstrated critical curatorial practices that prompted divergent design responses. They represent what Bruno Zevi called “architectural criticism in architectural forms” and, conversely, what Manfredo Tafuri dismissed as “operative criticism.”

Robert Torrens’ Theory of Profit Reconsidered1

Two issues are addressed in this paper. First, I investigate Robert Torrens’ theory of profit and argue that it is dependent on prices. Second, I determine the extent to which Torrens was an advocate of the corn-ratio theory and, in this context, re-examine Giancarlo de Vivo’s claims that Torrens held such a theory. I argue that Torrens, for the sake of simplification, coincidentally made some formulations that are in conformity with a corn-ratio theory, but that he was not an advocate of this theory. I also conclude that Torrens’ statements of indebtedness to David Ricardo cannot be taken as definitive ‘further evidence’ in favour of Piero Sraffa’s famous interpretation of Ricardo’s early theory of profit.

The Road that is not a Road and the Open City, Ritoque, Chile by Ann M. Pendleton-Jullian, foreword by Joseph Rykwert, introductory essay by Giancarlo De Carlo. The Graham Foundation/MIT Press series on Contemporary Architectural Discourse, 1996. 304 pp. 134 mono illus. ISBN 0-262-66099-7 Price £14.95 PB

The Road that is not a Road and the Open City, Ritoque, Chile by Ann M. Pendleton-Jullian, foreword by Joseph Rykwert, introductory essay by Giancarlo De Carlo. The Graham Foundation/MIT Press series on Contemporary Architectural Discourse, 1996. 304 pp. 134 mono illus. ISBN 0-262-66099-7 Price £14.95 PB - Volume 2 Issue 2

Review: Giancarlo de Carlo by Benedict Zucchi

Book Review| June 01 1995 Review: Giancarlo de Carlo by Benedict Zucchi Giancarlo de CarloBenedict Zucchi Naomi Miller Naomi Miller Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (1995) 54 (2): 251–253. https://doi.org/10.2307/990979 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Naomi Miller; Review: Giancarlo de Carlo by Benedict Zucchi. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 June 1995; 54 (2): 251–253. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/990979 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1995 The Society of Architectural Historians Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

(MIS)INTERPRETING RICARDO†

(MIS)INTERPRETING RICARDO GIANCARLO DE VIVO GIANCARLO DE VIVO Università di Napoli Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contributions to Political Economy, Volume 13, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 29–43, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.cpe.a035628 Published: 01 June 1994

Using platinum(II) as a building block to two-electron redox systems. Crystal structure and redox behavior of cis-[PtII(3-ferrocenylpyridine)2Cl2

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTUsing platinum(II) as a building block to two-electron redox systems. Crystal structure and redox behavior of cis-[PtII(3-ferrocenylpyridine)2Cl2]Oliviero Carugo, Giancarlo De Santis, Luigi Fabbrizzi, Maurizio Licchelli, Alberto Monichino, and Piersandro PallaviciniCite this: Inorg. Chem. 1992, 31, 5, 765–769Publication Date (Print):March 1, 1992Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 March 1992https://doi.org/10.1021/ic00031a014RIGHTS & PERMISSIONSArticle Views146Altmetric-Citations39LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InReddit PDF (689 KB) Get e-AlertsSupporting Info (1)»Supporting Information Supporting Information Get e-Alerts

BOOK REVIEWS

Journal Article BOOK REVIEWS Get access G. CLAEYS . Machinery, Money and the Millennium. From Moral Economy to Socialism. 1815–60, Polity Press, Cambridge 1987, pp. xxx + 245. GIANCARLO DE VIVO GIANCARLO DE VIVO Universita di Napoli Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contributions to Political Economy, Volume 8, Issue 1, March 1989, Pages 80–84, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.cpe.a035743 Published: 01 March 1989

Towards a Theory of Participation in Architecture—An Examination of Humanistic Planning Theories

Participatory design, also referred to as community design, 1 has reached a stage where it is no longer an activity practiced only by architects who operate outside the conventional realm of architecture. Participatory design has extended its base, and such proponents as Giancarlo de Carlo, Ralph Erskine, Lucien Kroll, and Charles Moore, to list a few, have helped to secure public recognition. But over time, participatory design has changed its character significantly. It is now, to a large extent, used to legitimize architectural populism without acknowledging its initial social program.

NOTES ON MARX'S CRITIQUE OF RICARDO

Journal Article NOTES ON MARX'S CRITIQUE OF RICARDO Get access GIANCARLO DE VIVO GIANCARLO DE VIVO Universitá di ModenaItaly Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contributions to Political Economy, Volume 1, Issue 1, March 1982, Pages 87–99, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.cpe.a035655 Published: 01 March 1982