Landscape by Signs

Alessandro Bianchi

• Publisher: Mimesis International
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9788869772948
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

From architecture to landscape, the step was not short, like the jumping in scale in the perspective perception of spaces. For architecture, the view stopped against a wall, to then enter and capture the space through the category of the Alberti concinnitas. This book contains articles developed for conferences and magazine papers, written over the last fi ve years, and reconstructs a theoretical and design path of the author and his students at the Politecnico di Milano. Landscape representations of the students are presented, the result of a mixed path between personal perception and visualization techniques, including manual drawing, photography, video and photo retouching. The search for new paths can lead to the desperate exaltation of the expressive characters of each of us (perhaps meaningless) or to the laying of new cornerstones of the representation of the future: we need to go beyond the modern to be a frontier, we need to be avant-garde to recognize in a new sign a symbol of our contemporaneity.

Table of contents

• mimesis
• Acknowledgment and Dedications
• Introduction Signs, Landscape, Photography
• Margin’s landscapes between Po and Trebbia rivers in Piacenza area: geometrical descriptions
• American “Rust Belt”: photographic narratives
• The representation of the Italian landscape in the figurative thought of Giorgio de Chirico and Luigi Ghirri
• Photographic considerations on the Po valley landscapes, from the margins to beauty
• Landscape Representation Lab
• 1 Project LEFT OR RIGHT?
• 2 Project NEGOTIATION
• 3 Project Perception
• 4 Project BLANKSPACE
• References
• MIMESIS GROUP