10 Studio Terragni
After History
Studio Master: Prof. Attilio Terragni
The studio After History will be working in the italian city of Lucca, in Tuscany. Why
Lucca? Because Lucca is has been preserved from the global attraction of the last
twenty years and has been able to preserve its historical heritage as no one else city
in Italy. On the other hand Lucca is looking for a future outside the perimeter of its
ancient and completely preserved walls, open to new architectural programs.
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So, what comes after history? After this incredible and fascinating architectural treasure?
Global and international Architecture has always been a practice of reduction of the
abundance of the world. During the last decades this process has been transformed
into a practice of adding pure volumes into the realm of cities. In the Studio we will
try to start our research of urban spaces from the “new abundances” creates by the
virtual world of the computer (that is actually a virtual reflection of the real world,
a new form of transparences of glasses), so to say to use the infinitepossibility and
capability of computer to visualize textures, matrix, unknown languages, all with
their own coherence. Instead of a reduction of the empirical world, such as forest,
mountains, nature forms that has always been part of them technique of architecture from the antique time, we will attempt to start from the not been of the virtual
visions created by the latest technology, a technology that has been changed the
world since the late 80 when it became clear it would became the most diffuse way
to produce architecture.
The experience of new abundances is not related to any formal experiment happening in contempo Ʌ