Histories of Postwar Architecture (Jul 2024)

Avenida da Ponte: Knowledge of the City as a Tool for the Design of an Unresolved Place

  • Andrea Fanfoni

DOI
https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2611-0075/19794
Journal volume & issue
no. 11
pp. 278 – 299

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The article analyses the two unrealised projects - by Fernando Távora in 1955 and Álvaro Siza in 2000 - for Avenida da Ponte in Porto and the public space project underlying the construction of the Casa dos 24. This analysis has made it possible to define how the historical and morphological knowledge of the city becomes an operative and compositional instrument of the project and at the same time is not a presupposition of immobilism, revealing the potential for a process of transformation of urban places updated to today's needs. This article is excerpted from the writer's doctoral thesis: A. Fanfoni, La persistenza del fenomeno dell'architettura nella "Città delle Costanti. L’attualità della lezione di Fernando Távora per la definizione di temi e strumenti utili al progetto degli spazi pubblici e dei luoghi urbani verso le linee guida di Smart City in Emilia-Romagna Università di Parma: Parma 2023 (Tutor Dario Costi, co-tutor Giovanni Leoni).

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