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La fortificazione dell'isola di Carloforte. Logiche militari e disegno illuminista nell'opera dell'ingegnere piemontese Augusto De la Vallea

In the first half of the eighteenth century the island of Carloforte is the subject of a project aimed at the birth of a new settlement. The intervention has a strong affinity with the eighteenth-century Spanish settlements (Nueva Tabarca, 1775) both from an urban point of view and for the common events related to the redemption of the inhabitants of the island of Tabarca in Tunisia. The new fortified city thought by the Piedmontese engineer Augusto De la Vallea - operating in Sardinia in th...

Nuove figure per le rovine di Chacabuco

City-Countryside. Principles, invariants and project

This research is part of active and long studies of the DICAAR of Cagliari, about the relationship between architectural and landscape design in historical, urban and rural contexts. The city and the field are the result of centuries-old stratifications whose forms-structures are based on long modifying processes and which offer the architect and planner a complex field of action. Understanding the rules of both is a necessity for conscious intervention and in which the construction of knowle...

La traça di El fratin. Forma e progetto delle fortificazioni “alla moderna” nel disegno di Jacopo Paleari

Starting from the second half of the fifteenth century, the design model that will characterize the so-called "modern" military architecture is perfected. Large is the repertoire of models produced by the illustrious figures such as Leon Battista Alberti, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Albrecht Dürer, Francesco di Giorgio Martini and the Sangallo family, to name a few of the most important. These are functional solutions to a new "art of war" that provides for the mutual protection of the ramparts t...