Publicomos

Notice (permalien)

Réf.

41377

Type

conference item

Titre

Castiglion Fiorentino : re-thinking the spirit of a place

Langues

English

Auteurs

Baron, Robert M.

Date

2008

Pages

10 p.

Titre de conférence

16th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Finding the spirit of place – between the tangible and the intangible’

Lieu de conférence

Québec, Canada

Date de conférence

29 sept – 4 oct 2008

Mots-clés

town planning / urban development / spirit of place / town and country planning / intangible cultural heritage

Pays mentionnés

Italy

Monuments et sites

Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy

Résumé en anglais

Hill towns reveal themselves in the morphological traces of their history. Organic urbanism was normally formed from a nucleus and then grown outward. Some cities are coherent in their evolution while others are more fragmented. When there is urban coherence you will encounter the spirit of place even if the buildings are in different styles. This sense of wholeness is often missing in modern urban design as architects and planners are impatient with existing conditions and preoccupied with inventing new architectural forms and master plans that ignore the existing urban system. What we understand as spirit of place emerges through an adaptive design process that transforms existing conditions and generates a formal coherence in the fabric.

Document joint

77-9NSF-182.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)