The Mediterranean sea is tout court one of the architecture sources and it is at the origin of the history of living in the Old World. To the constant and founding role of the Mare Nostrum is connected, several millennia later, that promoting an impulse to contemporary architecture and, in particular, to the Modern Movement. Basing on this essential relationship a specific issue, related to coastal towns and the way in which they have concretely declined the interaction with the sea, is grafted. If the chronological period is restricted from the second post-war period to today, many of these relationships are missed opportunities, distracted meetings, where the coasts, like agricultural funds, have been considered, in a very simplistic way, areas suitable for an uncontrolled expansion. To the nineteenth-century process of overcoming the historic walls and the spread of the extra-moenia city, almost always, a certain indifference towards the peculiarity of the places was accompanied. On this vast and unresolved repertoire some exceptions positively stand out and, among them, here we would mention what has been made by the architects Pasquale Culotta and Giuseppe Leone in Cefalù, with a particular regard to some exemplary interventions such as: Salem house, the landscape Plan of the Rocca and the Detailed Plan of Cefalù, inside which are inserted the restoration projects of the Megalithic walls. Through these three "occasions" it’s possible to know, even if for fragments, one of the most significant Italian architectural lessons of the second part of the twentieth century.

Il Mediterraneo è una delle fonti dell’architettura tout court ed è all’origine della storia dell’abitare del Vecchio Mondo. Al ruolo costante e di fondazione del Mare Nostrum si collega, diversi millenni dopo, quello avuto come impulso all’architettura contemporanea e, in particolare, al Movimento Moderno. Su tale imprescindibile rapporto si innesta una specifica questione relativa alle città costiere e al modo in cui queste abbiano concretamente declinato l’interazione con il mare. Se l’arco cronologico si restringe dal secondo dopoguerra ad oggi, molti di questi rapporti sono occasioni mancate, incontri distratti, dove le coste, al pari dei fondi agricoli, sono state considerate, in modo molto semplicistico, delle aree idonee per una espansione incontrollata. Al processo ottocentesco di superamento delle mura urbane storiche e alla diffusione della città extra moenia, quasi sempre, si è accompagnata una certa indifferenza nei confronti della peculiarità dei luoghi. Su questo repertorio vasto e irrisolto spiccano in positivo alcune eccezioni e, fra queste, qui si menziona quanto fatto dagli architetti Pasquale Culotta e Giuseppe Leone a Cefalù, con particolare riguardo ad alcuni interventi esemplari come: casa Salem, il piano paesistico della Rocca e il Piano particolareggiato di Cefalù, all’interno del quale si trovano i progetti per il restauro della Cortina Megalitica. Attraverso queste tre “occasioni” si potrà conoscere, seppure per frammenti, una delle lezioni architettoniche italiane più significative della seconda parte del XX secolo.

Sciascia, A. (2019). Il mare e la città. Cefalù e il Parco delle mura megalitiche di Pasquale Culotta, Giuseppe Leone e Tania Culotta. PROYECTO Y CIUDAD, 10, 29-36.

Il mare e la città. Cefalù e il Parco delle mura megalitiche di Pasquale Culotta, Giuseppe Leone e Tania Culotta.

Sciascia, Andrea
2019-01-01

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The Mediterranean sea is tout court one of the architecture sources and it is at the origin of the history of living in the Old World. To the constant and founding role of the Mare Nostrum is connected, several millennia later, that promoting an impulse to contemporary architecture and, in particular, to the Modern Movement. Basing on this essential relationship a specific issue, related to coastal towns and the way in which they have concretely declined the interaction with the sea, is grafted. If the chronological period is restricted from the second post-war period to today, many of these relationships are missed opportunities, distracted meetings, where the coasts, like agricultural funds, have been considered, in a very simplistic way, areas suitable for an uncontrolled expansion. To the nineteenth-century process of overcoming the historic walls and the spread of the extra-moenia city, almost always, a certain indifference towards the peculiarity of the places was accompanied. On this vast and unresolved repertoire some exceptions positively stand out and, among them, here we would mention what has been made by the architects Pasquale Culotta and Giuseppe Leone in Cefalù, with a particular regard to some exemplary interventions such as: Salem house, the landscape Plan of the Rocca and the Detailed Plan of Cefalù, inside which are inserted the restoration projects of the Megalithic walls. Through these three "occasions" it’s possible to know, even if for fragments, one of the most significant Italian architectural lessons of the second part of the twentieth century.
2019
Settore ICAR/14 - Composizione Architettonica E Urbana
Sciascia, A. (2019). Il mare e la città. Cefalù e il Parco delle mura megalitiche di Pasquale Culotta, Giuseppe Leone e Tania Culotta. PROYECTO Y CIUDAD, 10, 29-36.
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