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Architettura e Urbanistica
Architettura antica e medioevale, Architettura moderna, Bologna ed Emilia-Romagna, Storia locale, Territorio e Beni culturali, Urbanistica, Dipartimento di Architettura - DA
The Bolognese Portico
Architecture, History, and the City
di Francesco Ceccarelli, Daniele Pascale Guidotti Magnani
The portico is an essential infrastructural element in the city of Bologna and its design most tangibly expresses that fact. As architectural heritage of exceptional value, the portico has profoundly shaped the city’s historical as well as contemporary appearance.
First developed in an unplanned and illegal fashion during the High Middle Ages and recognized as an arbitrary extension of private property into the public space of the street, the Bolognese portico gained surprising acceptance by the end of the thirteenth century.
By this time, it was so appreciated for its utilitarian and formal qualities that the municipal statutes made it mandatory for all new constructions starting in 1288. From that moment on, the porticoes gradually spread in a capillary fashion along the perim…
Argomento
Architettura antica e medioevale, Architettura moderna, Bologna ed Emilia-Romagna, Storia locale, Territorio e Beni culturali, Urbanistica
Disciplina
Architettura e Urbanistica
Formato
230 × 270 mm
Pagine
176
Anno
2022
Confezione
Brossura
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN
9791254770504
ISBN online
9791254770511