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Ideas Drawn

Buzzi, Vittorio Gregotti, Meneghetti, Stoppino

This Pavilion evoke emotions on its appearance with smart but singular design where  portable systems with lightweight structures fit perfectly on this scenario. This was the Pavilion of Industry at the 3rd Novara Trade Fair designed by Franco Buzzi Cerian,Vittorio Gregotti, Lodovico Meneghetti and Giotto Stoppino. Celebrated in Novara, Italy in 1953.

These kind of installations resembles a complete representation  of modern construction techniques  where their appearance of lightweight structures, to their capacity for fast dismantling and portability complete a singular landscape for a trade fair celebrated in a park.

The organizers of trade fairs imposed strict budgetary guidelines where pavilions were assembled with hire material, henced the use of recyclable materials, and had to be dismantled inmediately after the trade fair closed. The pavilions were built of metallic pipe structures with articulated joints, structures in wood, roofing in canvas, or transparent plastics and aluminium, coated with Masonite panels. 

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Arata Isozaki: Re-Ruined Hiroshima

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Imagine how should we as architects rebuild cities starting from ruins.Here are some examples from Arata Isozaki’s megastructures which reminds this situation, but first we mustrealize what Isozaki wrote forty years ago, curiously it is what happens in some regions of the world right now:

“Incubated cities are destined to self-destruct , ruins are the style of our future cities, future cities are themselves ruins, our contemporary cities, for this reason, are destined to live only a fleeting moment,  give up their energy and return to inert material. All of our proposals and efforts will be buried and once again the incubation mechanism is reconstituted, that will be the future.”  Arata Isozaki.

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“Ruins are dead architecture”. Arata Izozaki.