Browsing by Author "Camiz, Alessandro"
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Architettura e archeologia: la composizione conforme dello strato contemporaneo
Camiz, Alessandro (Società Scientifica nazionale dei docenti di Progettazione Architettonica, SSD ICAR 14, 15 e 16: Naples, 2019)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 ... -
Attractors, repellers and fringe belts: origins and medieval transformations of Arsinoe, Ammochostos, al-Mau’dah, Famagusta, Magusa
Camiz, Alessandro (U+D Edition, Rome, 2019)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 ... -
BIM documentation for architecture and archaeology: the shipwreck museum in the Kyrenia castle, Cyprus
Capparelli, F.; Camiz, Alessandro (Gangemi Editore, 2019)In May 2018 we joined the “International Survey and Design Seminar & Workshop: Reading and designing the Kyrenia Castle”, at the Girne American University (Cyprus). During the workshop, we started a survey aimed at a general ... -
The chain tower in Kyrenia’s harbour, Cyprus
Camiz, Alessandro; Griffo, M.; Baydur, S.; Valletta, E. (Universidad de Granada, Universitat Politècnica de València, Patronato de la Alhambra y Generalife, 2020-05)In the Middle Ages a chain suspended between two towers defended the entrance of Kyrenia’s little harbour, like the chain across the Golden Horn in Constantinople. William de Oldenburg, who visited Cyprus in 1211 during ... -
Contextual design. L’esperienza del laboratorio di architettura degli interni a Salamis, Cipro
Camiz, Alessandro (Di Baio Editore, 2019)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 ... -
Contextual design: a new methodology
Camiz, Alessandro (Di Baio Editore, 2019)Within the international debate on design methodologies, the contextual approach proposes a new interpretation for architectural design. Every project does inevitably relate to its surrounding context. Once a project is ... -
Cooperazione internazionale per il rilevamento e la documentazione dei tessuti urbani storici: l’insediamento medievale genovese di Galata, Istanbul. International cooperation for the survey and documentation of historical urban tissues: the medieval genoese settlement of Galata, Istanbul
Camiz, Alessandro; Özkuvancı, Özge; Verdiani, G. (Didapress, Florence, 2019)The International Urban Design Workshop “Urban Façade: Istanbul waterfront” took place in March 23th-30st 2019 at the Faculty of Architecture and Design, Özyegin University, Istanbul. Organised by the authors in collaboration ... -
The double-chaired voussoir barrel vault on the Gymnasium Calidarium, Salamis Cyprus
Camiz, Alessandro; Griffo, M.; Tedeschi, A. (Gangemi Editore, 2019)The colonnade of the Salamis Gymnasium was excavated in 1890 (Arthur, Munro & Tubbs, 1891) and interpreted as part of a Temple of Zeus. The area was recognized as a thermal complex following new excavations in 1925, which ... -
Dubai. Una capitale contemporanea
Camiz, Alessandro (Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana fondata da Giovanni Treccani, 2020-09)Dubai is the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates, in the Arabian Peninsula, on the western shores of the Persian Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz. The discovery of oil fields, starting from ... -
The emerging role of urban morphology in practicing and teaching architectural and urban design
Camiz, Alessandro (National Technical University of Athens, 2019)The querelle between modern and traditional urban design has alimented in the past decades diverging phenomena such as the new urbanism, the so-called vernacular architecture and the landscape urbanism on one hand, and the ... -
The formation process of public space: from urban fabric to palaces and squares
Camiz, Alessandro (U+D Edition, Rome, 2018)The formation process of public spaces within the modern city has ancient origins: although generally referenced to the model of the great public spaces of Republican and imperial Rome (forum), the “common” urban space of ... -
Galata waterfont: models, types, and the morphology of meaning in architecture
Camiz, Alessandro (LetteraVentidue, Siracusa, 2020)“Ars simia natura” (Boccaccio, 1360) is a concept that has cut in two the history of the arts. Hence the modern figurative revolution the misunderstanding of this notion it has depleted architecture to a mere branch of the ... -
Hong Kong. Un po’ cinese e un po’ britannica
Camiz, Alessandro (Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana fondata da Giovanni Treccani,, 2020-09)Once a small fishing port, then a British colony, thanks to its special status Hong Kong is now one of the most important economic and commercial centers globally. Not being able to develop in width, it developed above all ... -
Image reintegration. Restoring the Palace in the Kyrenia Castle, Cyprus
Valletta, E.; Camiz, Alessandro (Gangemi Editore, 2019)Built next to the ancient harbour the castle of Kyrenia overlooks the surrounding historical fabric as a monumental landmark. The Byzantines established a fortress in the X century; this was transformed in a crusader castle ... -
Integrated digital survey of the urban tissues in Galata waterfront, Istanbul. A typo-morphological approach
Camiz, Alessandro; Alessi, C.; Michelon, S. (Gangemi Editore, 2019)Over the past centuries, the Beyoğlu district in Istanbul has hosted a variety of peoples and cultures. In its urban fabric, and specifically in the historical core of Galata, we can recognise different architectural traces ... -
Interrupted cities: l’interruzione come strumento compositivo
Camiz, Alessandro; Visconti, F.; Russo, A.; Russo Ceccotti, L. (Di Baio editore, Milano, 2020-07)Interrupted cities is an international research project that we started2020 three years ago together with Tom Rankin, Giorgio Verdiani and Paolo Pineschi. The project was titled as an evident homage to Piero Sartogo's Roma ... -
The interrupted city: divisione e connessioni
Camiz, Alessandro; Capozzi, R.; Verdiani, G. (Di Baio Editore, 2019)'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 ... -
The Kyrenia castle, an approach to digital documentation in the Cyprus island
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 ... -
La ricomposizione continua delle ‘interrupted cities
Camiz, Alessandro (Di Baio editore, Milano, 2020-07)Report of the works of the Laboratory in the XXIX International Seminar and Award for Architecture and Urban Culture: Contemporary Architecture and Historical Context, July 31 - August 4, 2019, University of Camerino. -
La teoria degli attrattori per l’analisi e il progetto della città storica: Amida-Diyarbakir
Camiz, Alessandro (Di Baio editore, Milano, 2020-07)The application of different techniques for the study of the city remains today (Whitehand, 2018), as it was 20 years ago (Whitehand, 1997) and (Marzot, 1998) the most interesting experimental field in the context of urban ...
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