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A TYPOLOGY IN OCCUPATION; ICONOGRAPHY OF A WAR
Further than Paris, Europe’s diversity has allowed us to find points of convergence and dig out a typology of buildings that has triggered the same kind of captive appeal for military or administrative requisition during many types of Occupation and in many different territories.
Hotels possess purposes that are manyfold - their use and destination call for a specific typology of multiple rooms, layers and consequently give birth to a highly hierarchical plan.
They are interesting to explore through the topical lens of their economic, social and systemic backgrounds, but also offer unexplored grounds when pointing at the role of architecture, aesthetic rules and norms and above all symbolism.
These buildings have helped shaped history through the constraints of their walls.Following the codes of neoclassicism, their purposes have been involuntarily switched by outside hands - we suggesting to follow the footsteps of a few writers who have tried to prove that facism and its theories are led by aestheticism and the minutions attention to visual details or impressions. We are also following in the footsteps of Adolf Loos who isolated ornament as a crime - which it can be under very precise parameters and circumstances. This exploration of abstract parameters show how we can be influenced by the less than obvious. We put forth mimetism and monumentality as the main defining parameters of the fascist aesthetic - both can be found at different scales; from the mass reunion of rallyes in public places to the facade of a neoclassic building, or even the lines of an object or hotel stationary.
We line with Loos when he wants to dig ornamentation - we must let the aesthetics of life and of buildings be the reasons of our feelings and actions - not all is rational and visible
We are shaped and influenced by these less than obvious parameters.
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LITERARY HOTELS
The Many Bars of Hemingway
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LITERARY HOTELS
Engiadina between literary dreams and reality
