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<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\nCherubino Gambardella<\/b><\/p>\n
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\u201cFacile\u201d significa concepire la costruzione sciolta dalle teorizzazioni tradizionali. L\u2019archietttura del nostro tempo non pu\u00f2 pi\u00f9 tenere uniti sotto il suo esclusivo dominio i tre fini posti dalla trattatistica come scopo primario dell\u2019arte di edificare: firmitas, utilitas, venustas. Il primo \u00e8 ormai sotto il governo dei molteplici specialismi tecnico-scientifici dell\u2019ingegneria in continuo divenire. Il secondo \u00e8 nei poteri del diritto di propriet\u00e0, adesso non pi\u00f9 complesso e concreto come quello medievale, ma semplice e astratto, dove il proprietario-committente ha il pieno ed esclusivo godimento del bene e perci\u00f2 l\u2019autorit\u00e0 di determinare il senso dell\u2019utile in base al proprio fine individuale.<\/p>\n
All\u2019architettura resta il compito di perseguire la venustas. Una bellezza non pi\u00f9 condizionata da canoni, ma in dialogo serrato, quasi un corpo a corpo, con la moltplicit\u00e0 imprevedibile dei condizionamenti che la contingenza dei due altri fini va di volta in volta ponendo. \u00c8 il tramonto dell\u2019arch\u00e9. L\u2019architetto ha la competenza dell\u2019ars per non lasciare alla t\u00e9chne l\u2019intera configurazione dello spazio.<\/p>\n
\u00c8 l\u2019arte del comporre in immagine bella ci\u00f2 che trova: prodotti industriali dozzinali, rovine del passato, residui di opere senz\u2019anima e compimento, scarsi mezzi finanziari. L\u2019architettura, quando \u00e8 tale, deve nobilitare l\u2019arte di arrangiarsi, che in Italia ha una sua patria d\u2019elezione.<\/p>\n
La genia napoletana di Cherubino Gambardella e Simona Ottieri ha favorito la fondazione consapevole della loro poetica su questi tratti del nostro tempo, interpretati al meglio, con acume e cultura profondi. Le loro opere, dal parafulmine che diventa belvedere, al derelitto scheletro di cemento armato che diviene raffinata casa dalla forma-bunker-craquel\u00e9, all\u2019edificio popolare in fatiscenza prossimo a Scampia che riprende vita e colore secondo un facile ma rigoroso disegno, dando involontaria regola estetica agli abitanti l\u00e0 dove l\u2019illegalit\u00e0 \u00e8 di casa, e molte altre invenzioni e differenti temi, ma tutti in questa chiave, sembrano prefigurare la cifra tendenziale dell\u2019architettura d\u2019oggi in specie italiana.<\/p>\n
Francesco Ventura<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Easy” means designing buildings free from traditional theorizing. Architecture of our day can no longer join under its exclusive domain the three purposes set by Vitrivius as the art’s primary aim: firmitas<\/i>, utilitas<\/i>, venustas<\/i>. The first \u2014 firmitas<\/i> (solidity) \u2014 is now governed by the multitude of ever-changing specializations in engineering. The second \u2014 utilitas<\/i> (usefulness) \u2014\u00a0is now under the province of property law, no longer as complex and practical as it was in medieval times, having become simple, but abstract, as the property owner\/client has the full and exclusive right to the property and thus the authority to chose the sense of usefulness based on his or her individual purposes.<\/p>\n Architecture is left with the task of pursuing venustas<\/i> (beauty). This beauty is no longer conditioned by the canons; rather it is in a close dialogue \u2014\u00a0so close they almost in full body contact\u2014 with the unpredictable multitude of conditions based on the constraints of the other two purposes determined on each occasion. This is the twilight of arch\u00e9<\/i>. The architect is responsible for the ars<\/i>, not leaving the entire configuration of the space to the t\u00e9chne<\/i>.<\/p>\n The architect’s art is that of composing what is found into a beautiful image, whether tacky industrial products, historic ruins, remnants of soulless, incomplete works, or scant funds. Architecture \u2014 when it is architecture \u2014\u00a0should ennoble the art of making due with what you have, an art that has made Italy its chosen land.<\/p>\n The Neapolitan genius of Cherubino Gambardella and Simona Ottieri fostered the intentional founding of their poetics on these traits of our time, given them their finest expression, with profound insight and learning. Their works include a lightning rod turned viewpoint, a derelict cement skeleton turned elegant house with a “crackled bunker” form, or social housing in decay near Scampia returned to life and color with an easy, yet exacting design, giving inadvertent aesthetic order to those who live where illegality is at home. And theirs are many other inventions and diverse themes, but all in the same vein, seeming to presage the trend of today’s architecture, particularly in Italy.<\/p>\n Francesco Ventura<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n\t\t
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Friday\u00a0– nov\u00a007th 2014 – 17.15\u00a0pm<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n
Building the architecture:\u00a0Cherubino Gambardella and Simona Ottieri \u201cEasy Building\u201d<\/b><\/h1>\n
Cherubino Gambardella<\/b><\/em><\/h1>\n
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