Preservación del Patrimonio Arquitectónico Industrial
The present work features the proposal for the repair, reinforcement and reconstruction of Bodega Arizu (Arizu Winery). The Bodega Arizu building dates from 1888 and it has been designated National Historic Monument. It is located on the Province of Mendoza (Argentina – South America) which is considered a high seismic risk zone. At first, the building of a shopping mall was projected in the site, but the idea was soon dismissed due to incompatibility with the area. At present, the building is run-down. The proposal aims at rescuing the architectural heritage represented by Bodega Arizu within the city's historic, social and economic context, since such winery is considered a symbol of Mendoza's viticulture history and technological progress. In order to undertake the proposal, several tests were conducted to determine the forces acting upon the existing structure of the former winery's main building (clay bricks - brick arches). The structure presents severe damages such as collapse decks, wall cracks, and leakage. All this deficiencies have led to increasing building deterioration. The seismic risk aggravates the situation and makes the structure prone to major damages caused by dynamic excitations.
For the purpose of exploiting the tourist and cultural potential of this industrial historic heritage site, various solutions complying with state-of the-art public safety standards and regulations in force were given and the winery building was adapted to present structural, architectural and urban requirements

LA CAMERA OTTICA ED IL SUO IMPIEGO
During the XVIII century, painters and architects in the Veneto used the ''camera obscura'' to make city views and drawings of individual buildings. This article examines the history of this instrument from its origins to its use by the Venetian townscape painters and architects in the 1700s; furthermore the text reports about the different kinds of “camera obscura” it was possible to use in the XVIII century showing some pictures included a pattern of the camera known as Canaletto's one.

ARCHITETTURA DEL MONDO ISLAMICO
The architecture of the Islamic world is often considered, even nowadays, like an indistinct whole, notwithstanding its century-old history and multiple artistic forms, risen on an area that involves forty nations and spans over three continents. This is the consequence of an Eurocentric and outdated vision, which considers Islam as a static, monolithic and closed universe: a symmetric vision also shared by some ideological trends existing inside the Islamic world itself. Islam art, architecture and culture, instead, cannot be fully understood if not considering the interactions and trading with various other civilizations. Breaking with the traditional isolation of the Muslim universe, this book underlines the fertile fabric of intercultural contaminations which characterize the architecture in the Islamic world during the Middle Age, between VII and XV century, from the Iberian peninsula to Sicily, from Egypt to India, and shows, thanks also to a rich, and mostly unpublished, iconographic apparatus, the peculiarity of the styles that mark different periods and regions.

Torino: il nuovo volto dell'ex Choccolat Tobler
Main theme of the project is the concept of liveliness, enlighted also by the particular location of the transforming area, crossroad of different cultural logics and interests; however it's exactly the fragmented identity of this area which permits to risk innovative solutions which aim to improve its image and to encourage a future economic progress. In the same concept of liveliness the project bases its moves for a reinterpretation of living, through a flexible use of the spaces which determined the peculiar wedge logic of the residential units.

LA NEGACIÓN DE LO PÚBLICO
This document aims to reflect on a specific aspect of urban public space, related uses and appropriations of the street in neighborhood communities in the city of Ibagué. The street has been regarded by history as one of the main components of the system of public space, since it constitutes excellence in field of communication and citizen relationships. However, walking or watching our cities, we see how people use public space for their own benefit, regardless of their collective character, which is evident in statements that deny, in the case of the street, their intrinsic public status.

DESCRIPTORS:
Urbane life, the street, public space, the city and the public, urbanism.