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또 다른 장소의 정령 : 건축 경관 이론에 대한 기록
(Archlab, Seoul, Korea, 2019-07) Camiz, Alessandro; Architecture; CAMIZ, Alessandro
After the publication of Norberg-Schulz’s book on Genius Loci in 1979 , the term Genius Loci became the logo of an anti-modern intellectual rebellion in search of deep meaning within the meanders of architecture and landscape, it became akin to a dragon banner raised in the crusade against the loss of memory generated by the modern movement. Such an interpretation, still deeply rooted within the generation of architects that graduated in those years, is nevertheless absolutely reductive, not only of the phenomenological message that Norberg-Schultz meant in those years, but above all has nothing to do with the genius loci, as intended in Roman times.
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Made without hands: survey, history and valorisation of the monastery of Panagia Acheiropoietos, Cyprus
(Firenze University Press, 2020) Verdiani, G.; Camiz, Alessandro; Architecture; CAMIZ, Alessandro
The north of Cyprus is a very complex area in terms of Cultural Heritage. The surveys of the Monastery of Acheiropoietos were undertaken in a scarcely studied context in which the political situation can generate important difficulties. The bases that have been set must, therefore, be understood as a first level of understanding, aimed at guiding future restorations and projects with the appropriate expertise.
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From Constantinople to Rome along the via militaris
(LetteraVentidue Edizioni, Siracusa, 2022-09-15) Camiz, Alessandro; Architecture; Ricci, M.; CAMIZ, Alessandro
The Mediterranean that we are describing in the Medways research is divided in two parts by an ancient line. This line dates back to the time of Diocletian who introduced the tetrarchy dividing the Roman Empire into separate administrative domains, one in the East and one in the West. Perhaps this line has shifted today from its original position, but it is still there, and the ongoing war in Ukraine seems to be a consequence of that very same line. In order to reconnect these two divided parts of the Mediterranean, and of the surrounding landscapes, we would like to build a narrative related to the road that connected the two capitals of the Eastern and Western Roman Empire. We will poetically move, as in an imitation game, from Constantinople to Rome along the so-called via militaris. This route was actually a network of roads that connected the two capitals of the empire through the Balkans. The via militaris gradually replaced by importance the older via Egnatia, which connected Constantinople to Durrës, then across the Adriatic Sea to Brindisi, and finally to Rome along the Via Appia. After the tetrarchy, when the Empire moved its gravity centre towards the Balkan area, the via militaris became the main infrastructure of an itinerant principality. It is no coincidence that Constantine the Great was born in a city along this path, Naissus (Nis).
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Pandemics and the changing built environment. Learning from history, planning our future
(DRUM press, Istanbul, 2024) Camiz, Alessandro; Architecture; Alessandro Camiz; CAMIZ, Alessandro
Proceedings of the First International ONLINE conference, on Pandemics and Urban Form, PUF2022, April 28th-30th 2022, Özyeğin University, Istanbul, Turkey https://pandemicsandurbanform.ozyegin.edu.tr/
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Designing change, changing architecture
(Grünberg Verlag, 2021) Camiz, Alessandro; Architecture; CAMIZ, Alessandro
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Attractors, repellers and fringe belts: origins and medieval transformations of Arsinoe, Ammochostos, al-Mau’dah, Famagusta, Magusa
(U+D Edition, Rome, 2019) Camiz, Alessandro; Architecture; Carlotti, P.; Ficarelli, L.; Ieva, M.; CAMIZ, Alessandro
This research poses a number of historical questions about the urban settlement of Famagusta: is it a Medieval, Crusader or a Frankish city? Is there any evidence of an earlier (pre-Lusignan) phase in the urban fabric and in the city walls? Can the application of the attractor theory give some results in the reconstruction of the medieval and late antique phases of Famagusta? We can analyse the urban structure of a city synchronically or diachronically, the theory of attractors, assuming that the deformations of urban routes follow the changing morphology of urban limits and centres, can shed some light on a reconstruction of the city. We can consider the city itself as a material historical document, without any opposition with archaeological data and other documents, such as quantitative notarial sources, cadastres, plans and city views. Most of the written histories identify this settlement with that of Arsinoe, and Ammochostos, interpreting Famagusta as the franchized version of Ammochostos. Starting with a toponymic interpretation the paper seeks evidence of a Roman or earlier phase of the urban settlement, by considering written and epigraphic sources, and analysing the urban tissues with the attractor theory. This analysis is essential to the understanding of the different parts of the urban settlement. The research is an experimental application of some of the urban morphology theories, namely the fringe belts and the attractor analysis, to the understanding of the early history of Famagusta.
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Contextual design. L’esperienza del laboratorio di architettura degli interni a Salamis, Cipro
(Di Baio Editore, 2019) Camiz, Alessandro; Architecture; Marucci, G.; CAMIZ, Alessandro
During the two-year period 2016-2017 the writer, then in force at the Girne American University of Cyprus, found himself directing the Department of Interior Architecture of that University. In that context, it was decided to address the research of the International Center for Heritage Studies and the Department in the same direction: while the Research Center, always directed by the writer, was concerned with the documentation of the archaeological and architectural heritage of the island, the Department dedicated itself to the project in the archaeological and historical areas of the same sites.
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Architettura e archeologia: la composizione conforme dello strato contemporaneo
(Società Scientifica nazionale dei docenti di Progettazione Architettonica, SSD ICAR 14, 15 e 16: Naples, 2019) Camiz, Alessandro; Architecture; Calderoni, A.; Di Palma, B.; Nitti, A.; Oliva, G.; CAMIZ, Alessandro
Nel recente dibattito sul rapporto tra architettura e archeologia (Capozzi, Fusco and Visconti 2019), (Mariniello 2016) prevale la tesi per la quale il progetto contemporaneo dovrebbe configurarsi nel sito archeologico affermando figurativamente la sua contemporaneità. Tale asserzione caratterizza gran parte della recente sperimentazione progettuale italiana nei contesti archeologici (Basso Peressut and Caliari 2014), (Cellini et al. 2009) ma soprattutto alimenta la polemica che contrappone molto spesso architetti e organismi preposti alla tutela, rendendo molto difficile la vita dei progetti. Questo contributo mette in discussione la necessità di tale affermazione figurativa. In un’area archeologica, prima del progetto architettonico, è stata effettuata una operazione progettuale di sottrazione, lo scavo, che si configura come unità stratigrafica negativa (Harris 1989).
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The Kyrenia castle, an approach to digital documentation in the Cyprus island
(Museen der Stadt Wien–Stadtarchäologie, Vienna, 2018) Bertocci, S.; Verdiani, G.; Camiz, Alessandro; Ceylanlı, Zeynep; Şevketoğlu, M.; Interior Architecture and Environmental Design; Architecture; Börner, W.; Uhlirz, S.; CAMIZ, Alessandro; CEYLANLI, Zeynep
Documenting large architectures with an accurate survey has recently become possible even with a limited budget. Digital survey tools based on both active and passive solutions, offers today versatile opportunities for the architectural documentation, regardless of the building’s dimension. This paper presents the poster, prepared for the CHNT conference, with an extract of Terrestrial and Aerial Photogrammetry and Terrestrial Lasergrammetry. This was used by academics in the context of the Kyrenia Castle in the Cyprus Island, a large medieval fortification organized in an almost square planimetry with a side of about 150 meters and walls height up to about 30 meters, gathering the occasion of a specific workshop (activated for one week in May 2018) and producing the first (partial) digital model of this large built heritage. Following the protocols and best practice in digital documentation of this kind of architectures – the coordinator group of the workshop in synergy with the management unit of the museum hosted in the castle- has brought on an articulated experience moving from the morphology of the castle, to its stratigraphy, to its exhibition aspects, to its restoration issues, to the production of multimedia contents for technical and/or general public access. In that poster it was presented the structure of the workshop, the structure of the survey, the interactions and integrations between different surveys, the system of tools, and the results coming out at first, from the on-field operations brought on by the students participating to the workshop and the following processing operated by technical expert operators; going on to the development of common digital bases to evolve the way of approach to these monumental structures. To present the complete workflow with samples the poster was enriched with QR-Code links to online resources has been made to be a useful base for sharing and discussing the whole set of activities completed on this subject.
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The interrupted city: divisione e connessioni
(Di Baio Editore, 2019) Camiz, Alessandro; Capozzi, R.; Verdiani, G.; Architecture; Marucci, G.; CAMIZ, Alessandro
'Interrupted city' is a traveling cultural initiative that openly takes its cue from the 'Roma Interrotta' conceived by Piero Sartogo as far back as 1978. In its own way it is a tribute to the inventor of that cultural project based on the Great Plan of Rome by Giambattista Nolli . In 2017 Tom Rankin, Paolo Pineschi and Alessandro Camiz founded this proposal with the aim of addressing a specific design theme, that of the interrupted city. Starting from the city of Nicosia, the divided capital of Cyprus, the itinerant seminar took place in different locations, in order to extend the question of division to the more inclusive theme of the interruption; that interruption that from the modern onwards has characterized the growth of cities, an organic interruption to the modern crisis, an interruption that is clearly read in the urban fabrics of our cities.