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Editoriale: Leonardo da Vinci next “guest editor” of l’Arca |
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| Cesare M. Casati |
Leonardo da Vinci prossimo "guest editor" de l`Arca / Leonardo da Vinci next "guest editor" of l`Arca
Cesare M. Casati
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| Toshiyuki Kita |
Timeless Future
Toshiyuki Kita
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| Mario Pisani |
Riutilizzare l`esistente / Re-using what is already there
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| Tadao Ando |
Rinnovo di Punta della Dogana / In Venice
Tadao Ando Architect and Associates
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| Elena Cardani |
Médiathèque André Malraux, Strasbourg
Jean-Marc Ibos & Myrto Vitart
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| Moatti et Rivière |
Cité Internationale de la Dentelle, Calais
Moatti et Rivière
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| Valode & Pistre Architectes |
Paris Biopark
Valode & Pistre Architectes
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| Henry Cobb, Paolo Caputo |
La nuova sede di Regione Lombardia / In Milan
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, Caputo Partnership, Sistema Duemila
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| Salvatore Spataro |
Museo del Barocco, Noto (Siracusa)
Salvatore Spataro
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| Richard England |
Delineare il DNA di un`isola / Limestone Heritage, Malta
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| Carmelo Strano |
Cristina Iglesias e l`opera ambientale / Environmental Works
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l`Arca 2 + News/Dossier
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| Leonardo da Vinci was most certainly the world´s first designer, managing
five-hundred years ago to identify and envisage how mankind
would progress technologically and scientifically, even prophesising
how to solve issues related to urban structures and infrastructures as
big cities inevitably expanded.
It was he who invented the idea of town-planning, which still guides us in designing
city transport systems, viewing the urban network in terms of its motions
and links as one single three-dimensional organism. Setting out social functions
and activities on various levels above and below ground. He was even revolutionary
in the way he communicated what he designed, at a time when image
could only be reproduced through individual skills and drawing Leonardo set
down his design ideas not through stiff technical drawings but as thoughts rendered
graphically and commented on, like concepts constantly progressing but
never closed and with vast numbers of "windows" opening up to thought and,
above all, innovation and experimentation.
And so as part of its new schedule of guest editors every month, l´Arca has decided
to make Leonardo da Vinci its guest editor for the May issue or rather his
architecture drawings so lovingly conserved at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in
Milan.
Thanks to generosity of the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, which, in collaboration
with MIDA Informatica and Metis-System, took the trouble to scan
all the one thousand one hundred and nineteen original drawings, and of the
publisher De Agostini, which together with the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana
takes care of the editorial valorization of the drawings and owns their
copyrights, we and our readers will be able to understand the prophetic architectural
messages closest to us, in order to comprehend and reread the images
seen with our disenchanted eyes.
The idea is to take a fresh look at Leonardo as an architect, devoting the same
thirty-two pages of space to his brilliant and immortal ideas as we have previously
allocated to other architects; a unique contribution in the form of drawings,
sketches and notes to be elaborated upon.
I am sure that the international scope of Leonardo´s conceptual and creative
thinking is so exciting and universally comprehensible it will get us all involved
in a new vision projected into the near and distant future, which will perhaps
see mankind make greater progress in exchanging ideas than trading goods. At
least that is how l´Arca would like to interpret Leonardo´s message.
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