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We present the TPJ essay “An Urban/Landscape Project for the Venice Lagoon” in which the author Claudio Aldegheri looks at “how to approach the project in this area, aiming to give value to its many different landscape aspects and attempting to reconsider in general the attitude to urban planning.” Aldegheri explains that it is important to take “measure and preliminary steps, establishing the relationships, heights, and conditions that the project will have to take into account. After that, the project will evolve - almost on its own – leading to even unexpected urban solutions.”
We conclude by sharing the book Dream of Venice Architecture (2016).
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Lately, there have been an increasing number of urban planning projects in the Venice lagoon that have not embraced its “rich and complex context.” In the essay “An Urban/Landscape Project for the Venice Lagoon,” the author Claudio Aldegheri investigates how approaching a project in the Venice lagoon can strive:
“to give value to its many different landscape aspects and attempting to reconsider in general the attitude to urban planning.”
Antonio Di Mambro, bird’s eye view of the Park of San Giuliano from southeast, 1995. Image retrieved from Il Parco di San Giuliano, exhibition catalog of the project by Comunitas Inc., team leader Antonio G. Di Mambro (Venice, It.: Comune di Venezia, 1995), 24-25 courtesy of © the Author.
Aldegheri’s approach to this work is extremely innovative and a good read indeed!
We thank the author!
Claudio Aldegheri graduated from the IUAV [Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia], Venice, in 1980. In his many years of professional practice, he has designed and worked on various projects, some of which have been published in Lotus International, The Architectural Review and Domus. He has won several design competitions including “An antenna for the lagoon of Venice” in 2004 and “The Crematory of Prato” in 2012. His practice, Studio Aldegheri Xquadra, is based in Venice.
>> We invite you to read the essay available in THE PLAN Journal vol. 3/2018, no. 1
The book Dream of Venice Architecture by JoAnn Loctov contains stunning photographs by Riccardo De Cal and a captivating introduction by Richard J. Goy. Loctov composes riveting reflections from Tadao Ando, James Biber, Mario Botta, Michele De Lucchi, Massimiliano Fuksas, Robert McCarter, Richard Murphy, Witold Rybczynski, Annabelle Selldorf, and Thomas Woltz. This book is one of a trilogy – the others being Dream of Venice (2014) and Dream of Venice in Black and White (2018).
Dream of Venice Architecture won an IPPY Silver Award in Architecture and was a Finalist for the 2016 Foreward Indies Award in Architecture.
English
96 pages
Bella Figura Publications
May 28, 2016
9 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
ISBN-10: 0990772519
ISBN-13: 987-0990772514
To learn more, check out: https://bellafiguracommunications.com/dream-venice-architecture/
Claudio Aldegheri’s “An Urban/Landscape Project for the Venice Lagoon” and Loctov’s Dream of Venice Architecture eloquently capture the essence of inarguably one of the most beautiful places in the world.
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