The Territory of ArchitectureBy Vittorio Gregotti

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The Territory of Architecture

Vittorio Gregotti Italian architect (Gregotti Associati studio )

Born in Novara 1927Graduated from the Milan Polytechnic 1952

Designed:Barcelona Olympic StadiumThe Belém Cultural Center in Lisbon, The Arcimboldi Opera Theater in Milan, University of Calabria,Pujiang New Town in Shanghai, China

Wrote:Article for STUDIO Architecture and Urbanism magazine 2012 issue#02

Territory

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Landscape Geography: An Antropogeographical Perspective

1. Scale of environment

Architecture: environment + construction

2. Discipline

Geography: descriptive; an environmental measure; science of spatial present, relations and their constitution Architecture: design; aesthetic communication, formal aspects of present related to meaning and character

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Landscape as Aesthetic Object

Criteria for considering communication tools & new visual forms of representation:

1. Anthropogeographical landscape can be an aesthetic object

2. Territorial shapes and recognizable figures.

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Morphological Dynamics of Territory

• Elements of transformation in the course of time of the figure of landscape

• Gradual reduction of nature to culture to heritage to profit

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Landscape Tradition and Environmental Defense

• The notion of landscape as material manipulated by architecture, which exceeds the concept of “garden”

• The lack of open and green space in the industrial city contributes to increase in their value.

• On the one hand, nature becomes a public park, on the other one the city tends to emerge in the nature as a garden city, to ideally as well as hygienically regenerate itself.

• Tourism becomes a way of profiting from landscape• Divided and protected based on history and natural

attributes rather than figurative objectives of their dynamic morphology

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Figure of Territory in the Italian Tradition

• Recognizes the presence of compelling situations and then the placement of our activities in the most appropriate areas

• The idea of landscape construction is not only related to the large physical size of intervention but the recognition of the world as matter operated by architecture through the invention of the landscape as a whole, which gives new meaning to architectural gestures at other scales

• Design as control in the process of continuous replace-ment of the environment operated by production of the constant invention of geography

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Nature of Drawing at a Geographical scale

1. Identification of sensitive point 2. The minimal operation 3. Formation of meaning

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Architecture, Environment, Nature

Nature as value :A social good to redistributeA value to adapt the meaning of construction as growth and process

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Landscape as a total environmental whole...