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The Hellenistic city develops a new clear theatrical character, and the visual impact becomes the key point. This is carried out through new ways of architecture design and building practice, which pay more attention to the monumental complex than to the single building, in an attempt to reach a renewed social and political visibility. The city adopts an architecture that becomes the stage of urban life through perspectives, designed landscapes, and backgrounds. Architectural and urban design is now a basis for political, social, and cultural debate, filtered through the needs of propaganda of power and social achievement. At the end of the Antiquity, Europe and the Mediterranean area are experiencing a complex urban culture, received and developed by the following periods. Architecture and scenographic cities still deal with urban behaviors in a debate which is increasingly stratified in space and time. This process gives way to the contemporary city experiences. The conference aims to investigate the meaning of architecture and urban design in the Western cities from Hellenism to Post modernity, as far as architectural and design choices are concerned, as well as all the functions, social and cultural meanings that the city can assume.
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The conference includes several sections for different research topics, concerning the ancient city of Greco-Roman tradition, as well as medieval, modern and contemporary cities:
1. Urban architecture. The topic of architectural design of spaces and shapes; the change of building practices; the research of new spatiality between squares and urban routes; the represented or described image of city.
2. Monumental cities. Architectural renewing aimed to urban regeneration that involves public and private complexes.
3. Ceremonial cities. The relationship between space and social life: rituals, festivals and processional routes. The social body interacts with architecture in a dynamic way; the use of architecture can change the original sign code, and attribute new meanings. During festivals and other public events, the city and its citizenship are perceived by vision but also, for synesthesia, through smells and sounds.
4. The city and restorations. Activities of recovery or restitution of virtual images aimed at safeguarding the architectural heritage, but also to restore the original image of spaces and monuments.
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Date of the Congress: June, 15-19, 2016
Venue of the Congress: Aula Magna Domus Sapientiae of the Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Ingegneria Civile e dell’Architettura (DICAR) of the Politecnico di Bari, via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari
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The Congress is organized by the Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Architettonici e del Paesaggio of the Politecnico di Bari, with the collaboration of: – PhD in “Architettura, Patrimonio e Innovazione” of the University consortium Roma Tre – Politecnico di Bari; – Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Ingegneria Civile e dell’Architettura (DICAR) of the Politecnico di Bari; – CSSAR – Centro di Studi per la Storia dell’Architettura (Rome).
Proceedings of the Congress will be published in the Monograph Series of Thiasos. Rivista di Archeologia e Architettura Antica (www.thiasos.eu), ed. Quasar (Rome). Both lectures and posters will be published.
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Organizing Committee: Roberta Belli, Luigi Maria Caliò, Monica Livadiotti, Giacomo Martines
Scientific Commitee: Antonio Armesto, Roberta Belli, Luigi Maria Caliò, Gianpaolo Consoli, Jacques de Courtils, Melina Filimonos-Tsopotou, Enzo Lippolis, Monica Livadiotti, Nicola Martinelli, Giacomo Martines, Anna Bruna Menghini, Dieter Mertens, Camilla Mileto, Carlo Moccia, Massimo Osanna, Elisabetta Pallottino, Vassiliki Patsiada, Poul Pedersen, Patrizio Pensabene, Amerigo Restucci, Giorgio Rocco, Fernando Vegas López-Manzanares.
Organizing Secretary: Paolo Baronio, Teresa Demauro, Antonello Fino, Fernando Giannella, Federica Gotta, Valentina Santoro.
Gestione sito web: Antonello Fino