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The Angel's house, new spaces, dimensions, interactions in (domestic) living
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Fabio Alfano, La Casa dell'Angelo, nuovi spazi, dimensioni, interazioni nell'abitare (domestico), Clean, Napoli 2001
Introduced by Pasquale Culotta
with essays by
Stefano Andi
Nino Barraco
Giovanni Chiaramonte
Pasquale Culotta
Marcello Faletra
Francesco La Rosa
Federico Soriano Pelàez
Michel Pochet
Michele Sbacchi
Sebastiano Triscari
Giovanni Francesco Tuzzolino
with works
by
Mimmo Catania
Giovanni Chiaramonte
Rossella Leone
Michel Pochet
Tommasina Squadrito
price Euro 18,00
The type of "house" identified in this book, besides the traditionally domestic dimension, is determined by the possibility to get in touch with the "angel", a symbolic figure of modernity, and with everything, though, he represents today. As a point of view different, out of the ordinary schemes, as a mediator of different realities and dimensions, a communicator of everything resulting intangible according to his nature, the angel synthesizes tensions, necessities, contradictions, certainties and uncertainties of the contemporary man.
The angel's house, though, is a house of research, recognition, discovery, identification, "a set of "spaces" where man operates an integration process of all his sensorial, emotional, mental components".
The rooms composing this one also carry out some functions like knowing, imagining, dreaming, thinking, expressing, praying, meditating, "its spatial and formal dimension creates a set of relations at more levels that determine the most suitable conditions for the living activities expected.
The book, through the different materials (essays, projects, works, documents, examples, ...) lay some questions and interrogations on the type of consciousness pervading the present man, on his living "space" and, especially on his house (individual microcosms and representation of a personal macrocosms), revealing a living philosophy directed more than ever towards the looking for poetic dimensions, metaphors, interactive relations between man and space, connections between things, wellbeing, new meanings and signs recognising the necessity, for man, of finding an own place in the "infinite".
The research is also directed to the definition of new approaches and modalities for the conception and the practise of an architectural and artistic design that entrusts to the angel the conceptual role of "making himself a concrete instrument of the project in the double condition of exploring the original space of living on earth and of getting the invisible inexhaustible reflection of architecture."
