https://aadriatica.eu Adriatica Wed, 23 Feb 2022 22:02:14 +0000 https://aadriatica.eu en https://aadriatica.eu/Adriatica22 Tue, 22 Feb 2022 16:16:50 +0000 Adriatica https://aadriatica.eu/Adriatica22 Adriatica LOCAL STRUCTURES FOR A NEW WORLD ORDER 26 AUG - 2 SEP 2022, PESARO (IT)‘PRODUCTIVE TERRITORY’ Strategically placed between several trade routes, the productive vocation of the North-East Italian coast has strived under the pressure of its manufacturing industry which, in the second half of the 20th Century, propelled its economic outlook. Rimini is located at the intersection of two&nbsp; main trade routes: via Flaminia and via Emilia (respectively connecting Rome and the Po Valley to the Adriatic coast) constituted the two main axis of economic development of the region. At the same time, Ravenna, Ancona and Trieste form a network of major commercial ports now crossing the new Silk Road with China.&nbsp; The current interest of the Italian government to reinstate and strengthen the capacity of the offshore platforms for the extraction of gas, renders the Adriatic and its infrastructures a strategic asset for energy supply. Workshop in collaboration with:&nbsp; <img width="1917" height="565" width_o="1917" height_o="565" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c6d6d142e531ff66a0ffbaa7a30b0a7a55868413337cc9071efc1e7973c6b86f/WASP_logo-1.png" data-mid="134345618" border="0" data-scale="21" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c6d6d142e531ff66a0ffbaa7a30b0a7a55868413337cc9071efc1e7973c6b86f/WASP_logo-1.png" /> https://aadriatica.eu/Programme22 Tue, 22 Feb 2022 18:41:45 +0000 Adriatica https://aadriatica.eu/Programme22 &nbsp; PROGRAMME ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// To Be Announced https://aadriatica.eu/Images-copy Wed, 23 Feb 2022 08:19:42 +0000 Adriatica https://aadriatica.eu/Images-copy The urbanization along the northern Adriatic Sea, across Veneto Emilia Romagna, Marche and Abruzzo represents a unique, and all too often overlooked, laboratory to study the evolution of the contemporary European city. Adriatica will work as a “think tank” studing the evolution of the urban coastal condition of the Adriatic city: its past, its present condition and future potentials. The Adriatic City has grown and keeps striving under the pressure of social, technological, and economic forces. We set to develop the first comprehensive study and an urban theory describing this vast territory unfolding along the Adriatic. https://aadriatica.eu/La-Prima-Notte-di-Quiete Wed, 23 Feb 2022 16:55:37 +0000 Adriatica https://aadriatica.eu/La-Prima-Notte-di-Quiete CONTEXTFor nearly a thousand years, the sovereign Republic of Venice established itself as a trading superpower between Europe and the Levant, expanding its maritime dominance into the Adriatic Sea and, from there, connecting the West and the Far East.Today, more than two-thirds of trade value between the European Union and China goes by sea (via the Suez Canal) and the North Adriatic maritime transport route is the shortest way to reach inland parts of the Old Continent from East Asia. Italy has recently endorsed the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a global infrastructure development strategy adopted by the Chinese government to accelerate economic growth across the Asia Pacific area,&nbsp;Africa and Central and Eastern Europe. The projects under the BRI are mainly related to infrastructure development in the transport, energy, mining, IT and communications sector but also cover industrial parks, Special Economic Zones (SEZ), tourism and urban development. This epochal geo-strategic masterplan puts the spotlight on the role of the Adriatic region – its coastline and its ports- in the massive trade and infrastructural project that aims to link China to Europe. The Adriatic CityThe urbanisation along the north Adriatic Sea, across Veneto Emilia Romagna and Marche, represents a unique, and all too often overlooked, laboratory to study the evolution of the contemporary European city. &nbsp;Beside the simplistic dichotomy between the city and the countryside, the contemporary urban condition is characterised by the fragmentation of the urban texture, the coexistence of irreconcilable traits and the diffuse urban sprawl. This situation reflects the uncertain and precarious reality of the contemporary urban and sub-urban condition.The Adriatic City is characterised, on one hand, by the presence of a diffuse networks of small and medium-sized enterprises, manufacturing factories and industries, that have historically punctuated its territory determining its socio-economic success. At the same time, the early formal and informal settlement along the coast have developed over time determining its leisurely character. The industrious inland and the laid-back coastline are the two faces of the same coin. Between these polarities the Adriatic City unfolds relentlessly across different regions, provinces, counties and municipalities: holiday resorts, city-state, historic city, industrial compounds, logistic infrastructures, amusement parks, urban fringes, agricultural land, density and unrestricted growth, etc. Despite its apparently chaotic prosperity, the Adriatic City has developed out of a rather specific set of socio-economic and historical circumstances that will become the subject of our study. Think TankIn 1974, Giancarlo De Carlo, together with a group of colleagues and friends, most of which were members of Team10, founded the International Laboratory for Architecture and Urban Design (ILAUD). The new ‘Laboratory’ was concerned with the transformation of the physical environment promoting research into new methods and techniques of design and fostering cultural exchanges between teachers and students from different countries and universities. The laboratory’s main objective was to lay the foundations for a different approach to architecture, one that would explore issues bound up with the territory, participation, and reuse.In line with this spirit of independence and cultural anarchism, the AA Visiting School will work as a “think tank” set to study the evolution of the urban costal condition of the Adriatic city: its historic heritage, the formal and informal nature of its conurbation, its present condition and future potentials. The Adriatic City has grown and keep striving under the pressure of social, technological and economic forces. We set to develop the first comprehensive study and, where possible, a urban theory describing this vast territory unfolding along the Adriatic Sea. ContentsEach year, the Visiting School will focus on one specific aspect characterising the Adriatic City. We will study the existing condition, its social and economic structure as well as its planning, urban types and archetypes. We will look at turism, hospitality and leisure, how it has transformed the Adriatic City over time and how it can evolve and transform in the future. We will look at the industry (manufacturing, services, agriculture, etc), the way it has transformed the countryside and how it can help propel the economy of the Adriatic City into the 21st Century. We will look at housing: how to transform and adaptively reuse the existing building stock as well as planning its growth. The body of research developed during the Visiting School will converge into the first comprehensive publication on the Adriatic City. We will carry out a series of seminars that will offer specific insights into the history and culture of the Adriatic City. We will discuss how the cinema has depicted the Adriatic City, from Zurlini’s Adriatic trilogyto Dino Risi’s L’Ombrellone, from Fellini’s Amarcord to Deserto Rosso by Michelangelo Antonioni. We will look at the architectural heritage: from Francesco di Giorgio Martini to Bramante, from Alberti to Valadier all the way to the post-war modernism (De Carlo, Aymonino, ect). &nbsp; https://aadriatica.eu/Images-copy-copy Wed, 23 Feb 2022 17:14:11 +0000 Adriatica https://aadriatica.eu/Images-copy-copy The urbanization along the northern Adriatic Sea, across Veneto Emilia Romagna, Marche and Abruzzo represents a unique, and all too often overlooked, laboratory to study the evolution of the contemporary European city. Adriatica will work as a “think tank” studing the evolution of the urban coastal condition of the Adriatic city: its past, its present condition and future potentials. The Adriatic City has grown and keeps striving under the pressure of social, technological, and economic forces. We set to develop the first comprehensive study and an urban theory describing this vast territory unfolding along the Adriatic. https://aadriatica.eu/Log Wed, 23 Feb 2022 22:02:14 +0000 Adriatica https://aadriatica.eu/Log LOG 53 - Cover Story In September 2013, President Xi Jinping announced China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a strategic masterplan to develop new terrestrial and maritime trade routes between Asia and Europe. Invariably, a primary maritime route is the Adriatic corridor and north Adriatic region, where Trieste, an international free port, offers rail connections to Central Europe and the North Sea. The BRI represents a return to the role the Adriatic has played since the time of Marco Polo – the gateway to the East – but it is also an opportunity to rethink the region’s cities and ports. For over a thousand years, the Serenissima Republic of Venice built its wealth and dominance as a commercial superpower by expanding trade relations with Asia and the Middle East via the Adriatic Sea. For centuries called the Gulf of Venice, the Adriatic was considered the door to the Levant, the border between Western civilization and the East. As John Ruskin wrote in The Stones of Venice, “Opposite in their character and mission, alike in their magnificence of energy, they came from the North and from the South, the glacier torrent and the lava stream: they met and contended over the wreck of the Roman empire; and the very centre of the struggle, the point of pause of both, the dead water of the opposite eddies, charged with embayed fragments of the Roman wreck, is Venice. The Ducal palace of Venice contains the three elements in exactly equal proportions – the Roman, Lombard, and Arab. It is the central building of the world.” Yet, the history of Venice and its gulf was overlooked by modern history. The fascist regime grossly manipulated the history of the ancient Venetian colonies in the Levant, and the Republic’s trading activities were superficially interpreted as the precursor of modern capitalism and therefore ideologically dismissed. The history of the sea defies historiographical clichés and prejudices. Unlike the land, the sea leaves no visible trace, yet the history of maritime trading and exchange reveals the richness of multiculturalism. Venice was founded on the sea, an ability learned from Byzantium. The“Stato da mar” (state of the sea) was an archipelago of islands (Crete, Euboea, Cyprus, Corfu) and ports of call (Istria, Dalmatia, parts of Montenegro and Albania, Morea) all the way to Constantinople and its Venetian quarter. In the Middle Ages, Italian identity in the Mediterranean was defined primarily by seafaring Venetian and Genovese merchants and their interaction with trading partners. A wealth of commercial activities shaped the settlement of the Adriatic coast: Trieste, Aquileia, Ravenna, Rimini, Pesaro, Fano, Senigallia, Ancona in Italy; Pula, Rijeka, Zadar, Sibenik, Split, Dubrovnik in Croatia; Bar in Montenegro; Durrës and Vlorë in Albania. International trade also led to new architectural typologies in ports across the Mediterranean. The fondaco, of medieval origin, was both a warehouse and an accommodation for foreign merchants. Fondaco appears in the old languages of the Levant and beyond; in Turkish, for example, funduq means warehouse. In Venice, the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, or Fondaco dei Turchi (Germans meant all northern European merchants; Turks meant anyone from the Middle or Far East), attested to the many relationships the Adriatic fostered between civilizations. And the lazzaretto was developed as a place to confine infected goods or people for up to 40 days (hence the term quarantena) to avoid an epidemic of plague. The Italian side of Adriatic was a perfect landing site for refugees: until the unification of Italy in 1861 and completion of the Adriatic railway in 1872, this side of the peninsula was not seen as split between north and south. Dante Alighieri considered it to be horizontal, like the Tabula Peutingeriana (ancient Roman road map). For centuries, Greeks, Armenians, Albanians,Slavs, Syrians, and Jews established enclaves along the Adriatic. In the 18th century, the Austro-Hungarian Empire began to extend their power toward the Adriatic: the Südbahnhof in Vienna and Miramare Castle in Trieste are two examples of their effort to establish a presence there. In the 20th century, postwar economic growth led to industrialization, mostly small- and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises, and tourist exploitation of the coastline. The settlements of the 1920s and ’30s were repurposed and absorbed into a diffuse network of hotels, clubs, beaches, and theme parks that determined the leisurely character of the coast and led to Romagna becoming the epicenter of mass seasonal tourism. Federico Fellini’s I vitelloni (1953) showed the great contrast between Rimini in summer, full of tourists, workers, and parties, and the melancholic winter atmosphere of an almost deserted city. Dino Risi’s L’ombrellone (1965) registered the “anthropological mutation” of Italian society due to consumerism and the new rhythms of life. Since then, the industrious inland and the laid-back coastline are considered two faces of the same coin. Given its distance from the great cities (Rome, Florence, Milan, Naples), the Adriatic represents the suspended time of holidays, when one can dress and behave differently and test new typologies of leisure. During the fascist era, summer colonies were designed for children. In the 1960s, some of the first discotheques in Europe, L’altromondo by Piero Derossi in Rimini and the Woodpecker by Filippo Monti in Milano Marittima, experimented with new materials like polymer plastic and fiberglass. At the same time, marginal areas along the Adriatic became home to Roma and Sinti communities. Gay culture also thrived thanks to Pier Vittorio Tondelli, author of Altri libertini (1980) and Rimini (1985), who was also first to see how the Adriatic’s major cities would sprawl to form an urban continuum. The Adriatic took its most radical form when, in 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa designed,financed, and built an artificial island off the coast of Rimini to declare, in Esperanto, the independent Respubliko de la Insulo de la Rozoj (the Republic of the Island of Roses). The short-lived utopian micronation became a symbol of freedom and escape from traditional society, a space of self-determination that captured the spirit of an era and, once again, the everlasting libertarian call of the sea. The sea that surrounds nearly all of Italy and connects it to the world. https://aadriatica.eu/Adriatica21 Tue, 05 Jan 2021 18:23:46 +0000 Adriatica https://aadriatica.eu/Adriatica21 Adriatica LOCAL STRUCTURES FOR A NEW WORLD ORDER RICCIONE, 5-16 JULY 2021 "The Atlantic and the Pacific are seas of distance, the Mediterranean a sea of propinquity, the Adriatic a sea of intimacy". (Predrag Matvejević) ‘Precisely because the world risks becoming mired ever more deeply in the crisis of values in which it isalready floundering, the only reliable frame of reference left is the physical space of the territory(..). In the territory humanity can continue to find the signsof its past and the symptoms of its future’ (Giancarlo De Carlo) 05-9 JULY: ONLINE WORKSHOP, SEMINARS, SYMPOSIUM &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 12-16 JULY: ON-SITE WORKSHOP, SEMINARS, SYMPOSIUM 19-24 JULY: EXHIBITION (Palazzo del Turismo, Riccione) Workshop in collaboration with:&nbsp; <img width="1917" height="565" width_o="1917" height_o="565" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c6d6d142e531ff66a0ffbaa7a30b0a7a55868413337cc9071efc1e7973c6b86f/WASP_logo-1.png" data-mid="109757332" border="0" data-scale="21" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c6d6d142e531ff66a0ffbaa7a30b0a7a55868413337cc9071efc1e7973c6b86f/WASP_logo-1.png" /> https://aadriatica.eu/Programme21 Mon, 04 Jan 2021 18:54:37 +0000 Adriatica https://aadriatica.eu/Programme21 PROGRAMME&nbsp; ONLINE ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 5 July - Manuel Orazi + Marco Vanucci “Intro” 6 July - Stephan Petermann + Jiang Jun “Belt and Roads and the New Normal” 7 July - Luka Skansi&nbsp;“Fiume Fantastica: A City and its five capitals” 8 July - Egidio Ivetic “The Adriatic: an historical account” 9 July - Romane Bourgeois “Look Where You Set Foot” 9 July - Stefano Graziani “Photographers Along the Adriatic Sea ” 12 July - Emanuele Coccia “The Home and the City” 14 July - Lea Catherine Szacka “Adriatic Kitsch” 15 July - Manuel Orazi + J.Costanzo “Aymonino and Rossi in Pesaro”&nbsp; ON SITE ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 7 July - Stefano Boeri + M.Brambilla “Urbania” 12 July - Cavazzoni, Rondoni + M.Collini “Niente di antico sotto il Sole” 13 July - Polistudio, Baiocco, Renzi “Adriatic Territories” &nbsp; 12.07 / 16.07: Workshop “Temporary Autonomous Zones” 19.07 / 24.07: ExhibitionParticipants are required on-site attendance for the period 12-16 July.&nbsp; https://aadriatica.eu/L-Ombrellone Sun, 20 Dec 2020 18:19:17 +0000 Adriatica https://aadriatica.eu/L-Ombrellone CONTEXTFor nearly a thousand years, the sovereign Republic of Venice established itself as a trading superpower between Europe and the Levant, expanding its maritime dominance into the Adriatic Sea and, from there, connecting the West and the Far East.Today, more than two-thirds of trade value between the European Union and China goes by sea (via the Suez Canal) and the North Adriatic maritime transport route is the shortest way to reach inland parts of the Old Continent from East Asia. Italy has recently endorsed the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a global infrastructure development strategy adopted by the Chinese government to accelerate economic growth across the Asia Pacific area,&nbsp;Africa&nbsp;and&nbsp;Central and Eastern Europe. The projects under the BRI are mainly related to infrastructure development in the transport, energy, mining, IT and communications sector but also cover industrial parks, Special Economic Zones (SEZ), tourism and urban development. This epochal geo-strategic masterplan puts the spotlight on the role of the Adriatic region – its coastline and its ports- in the massive trade and infrastructural project that aims to link China to Europe. The Adriatic CityThe urbanisation along the north Adriatic Sea, across Veneto Emilia Romagna and Marche, represents a unique, and all too often overlooked, laboratory to study the evolution of the contemporary European city. &nbsp;Beside the simplistic dichotomy between the city and the countryside, the contemporary urban condition is characterised by the fragmentation of the urban texture, the coexistence of irreconcilable traits and the diffuse urban sprawl. This situation reflects the uncertain and precarious reality of the contemporary urban and sub-urban condition.The Adriatic City is characterised, on one hand, by the presence of a diffuse networks of small and medium-sized enterprises, manufacturing factories and industries, that have historically punctuated its territory determining its socio-economic success. At the same time, the early formal and informal settlement along the coast have developed over time determining its leisurely character. The industrious inland and the laid-back coastline are the two faces of the same coin. Between these polarities the Adriatic City unfolds relentlessly across different regions, provinces, counties and municipalities: holiday resorts, city-state, historic city, industrial compounds, logistic infrastructures, amusement parks, urban fringes, agricultural land, density and unrestricted growth, etc. Despite its apparently chaotic prosperity, the Adriatic City has developed out of a rather specific set of socio-economic and historical circumstances that will become the subject of our study. Think TankIn 1974, Giancarlo De Carlo, together with a group of colleagues and friends, most of which were members of Team10, founded the International Laboratory for Architecture and Urban Design (ILAUD). The new ‘Laboratory’ was concerned with the transformation of the physical environment promoting research into new methods and techniques of design and fostering cultural exchanges between teachers and students from different countries and universities. The laboratory’s main objective was to lay the foundations for a different approach to architecture, one that would explore issues bound up with the territory, participation, and reuse.In line with this spirit of independence and cultural anarchism, the AA Visiting School will work as a “think tank” set to study the evolution of the urban costal condition of the Adriatic city: its historic heritage, the formal and informal nature of its conurbation, its present condition and future potentials. The Adriatic City has grown and keep striving under the pressure of social, technological and economic forces. We set to develop the first comprehensive study and, where possible, a urban theory describing this vast territory unfolding along the Adriatic Sea. ContentsEach year, the Visiting School will focus on one specific aspect characterising the Adriatic City. We will study the existing condition, its social and economic structure as well as its planning, urban types and archetypes. We will look at turism, hospitality and leisure, how it has transformed the Adriatic City over time and how it can evolve and transform in the future. We will look at the industry (manufacturing, services, agriculture, etc), the way it has transformed the countryside and how it can help propel the economy of the Adriatic City into the 21st Century. We will look at housing: how to transform and adaptively reuse the existing building stock as well as planning its growth. The body of research developed during the Visiting School will converge into the first comprehensive publication on the Adriatic City. We will carry out a series of seminars that will offer specific insights into the history and culture of the Adriatic City. We will discuss how the cinema has depicted the Adriatic City, from Zurlini’s Adriatic trilogyto Dino Risi’s L’Ombrellone, from Fellini’s Amarcord to Deserto Rosso by Michelangelo Antonioni. We will look at the architectural heritage: from Francesco di Giorgio Martini to Bramante, from Alberti to Valadier all the way to the post-war modernism (De Carlo, Aymonino, ect). &nbsp; https://aadriatica.eu/Piattaforme Mon, 04 Jan 2021 10:08:22 +0000 Adriatica https://aadriatica.eu/Piattaforme The “Precisely because the world risks becoming mired ever more deeply in the crisis of values in which it is already floundering, the only reliable frame of reference left is the physical space of the territory(..) In the territory humanity can continue to find the signs of its past and the symptoms of its future”Giancarlo De Carlo urbanization along the northern Adriatic Sea, across Veneto Emilia Romagna, Marche and Abruzzo represents a unique, and all too often overlooked, laboratory to study the evolution of the contemporary European city. Adriatica will work as a “think tank” studing the evolution of the urban coastal condition of the Adriatic city: its past, its present condition and future potentials. The Adriatic City has grown and keeps striving under the pressure of social, technological, and economic forces. We set to develop the first comprehensive study and an urban theory describing this vast territory unfolding along the Adriatic.