Understanding Organised Space

Giorgio Liverani

doi:10.6092/issn.2611-0075/19804

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Giorgio Liverani Architect, PhD

He graduated in architecture from the ‘Aldo Rossi’ faculty of Cesena in 2009 with top marks and obtained his PhD in Architecture in 2017. Since 2017 he has been an adjunct lecturer at the School of Engineering and Architecture, Alma Mater Studiorum of Bologna, Cesena campus.
Since 2009 he has been working as a freelance in the ellevuelle architetti studio, a collective formed by Giorgio Liverani (Modigliana, FC), Luca Landi (Predappio, FC), Michele Vasumini (Forlì) and Matteo Cavina (Faenza, RA). Together they deal mainly with the theme of residential, productive and cultural recovery. In 2013 they were published in Casabella in the international selection of young designers under 30, and in 2014 they were among the 10 nominees of the Young Talent of Italian Architecture Award banned by the CNAPPC of Rome with the Filandone di Modigliana renovation project. They are among the architects invited to rethink the transformation of the former military area Sta.Ve.Co. in Bologna, among the winners of the competition Scuole Innovative (Innovative Schools) and third place in the competition of ideas ‘Fabbrica della Meraviglia’ called by Orogel for the new administrative headquarters.
In 2019 they come second in the design competition for the construction of the new secondary school in San Piero in Bagno and among the finalists in the international design competition called by the Municipality of Milan for the design of the Scialoia School. In June 2020, they are among the 10 studios invited to the ‘young Italian architects’ meeting cycle promoted by Casabella magazine. In October 2022 they were awarded the ‘Prossima stazione Cesena’ competition for the regeneration of the complex system of public spaces between the station and the historic centre. This year they are among the winners of the 40 under 40 European design with casa bieffe, Corte San Ruffillo and the Neverending Park project in Cesena.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2611-0075/19804

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Journey, Supra-Historical Constants, Organised Space, Design, Project

Abstract

The objective of this research is the investigation on the relationship between the Italian and Portuguese architectural culture in a time span between the end of the second World War and the Carnation Revolution, that sees the fall of the Salazar regime in Portugal in 1974, paying particular attention on the figure of Portuguese architect Fernando Távora (1923-2005), one of the greatest exponents of the Protuguese architectural scene of that period. The debate that took place in those years in Italy around the design, paying attention to the relationship with the context and the right “language” to use, combined with the liveliness of the architectural landscape, pushed some Portuguese architects to have an interest in the Italian architectural sphere with which they come into contact through travels, publications and meetings. This research does not want to be an historiographical analysis of the development of projects but rather a process of synthesis of the compositional thought of the architect and the influences deriving from the Italian culture context, whether explicit or documented, but also stemmed from personal experiences and architectures visited by Tavora during his travels to Italy.
The research delves into the compositional aspects of some of Tavora’s projects, developed and produced at this stage of his professional career, through a parallel with several Italian buildings of the same period or belonging to classical architecture, which Tavora knows and has had the chance to visit in person.
By redesigning the architectures of Tàvora, as well as the Italian ones examined in the analysis, it was possible to fully understand the links between the various projects and therefore developing a schematic graphic clarifying the examined aspects and support the written text.
This article is excerpted from the writer’s doctoral thesis: G. Liverani, Contesto e progetto. Influenze italiane sull’architettura di Fernando Távora, Università di Bologna: Bologna 2017 (Tutor Antonio Esposito).

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