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08.02.2021 || PUBLICATION OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF ARCHITETTURA EREMITICA 2020



The Proceedings of the V International Conference of Certosa Studies in Florence 2020 "Eremitica Architecture - Design Systems and Cultural Landscapes", by proff. Stefano Bertocci and Sandro Parrinello, have been officially published.


The Proceedings contain sixty-two articles on three main topics: documentation and analysis of architectural complexes, both in Italy and in the world; conservation and musealisation of territorial contexts; documentation of the Certosa del Galluzzo.

The hermitage is a place of difficult access, where hermits or anchorites retire voluntarily excluding themselves from society to lead a life of prayer and asceticism. If the realization of isolated places of prayer is common to many religions, it is mainly due to Christianity the spread in Italy of a large number of hermitages that, from the Middle Ages to today, constitute a large part of the cultural heritage of historical and architectural interest of our country. This heritage is a witness to an evolutionary, religious, cultural and even scientific process that has laid the foundations of contemporary civilization and is part of our specific cultural identity. These places are in fact an extraordinary collection of testimonies of the historical processes that led to the modifications and that have often transformed them into exceptional complexes of monumental interest. The study of these architectural structures is a fundamental stage in the necessary commitment to the conservation of our heritage.

 

“Permettez-moi de vous montrer par quels chemins, à travers vingt années de curiosité attentive, des certitudes sont venues. L’origine de ces recherches, pour mon compte, remonte à la visite de la Chartreuse d’Ema aux environs de Florence, en 1907. J’ai vu, dans ce paysage musical de la Toscane, une cité moderne couronnant la colline. La plus noble silhouette dans le paysage, la couronne ininterrompue des cellules des moines; chaque cellule a vue sur la plaine, et dégage sur un jardinet en contre-bas entièrement clos. J’ai pensé ne pouvoir jamais rencontrer une telle interprétation joyeuse de l’habitation. Le dos de chaque cellule ouvre par une porte et un guichet sur une rue circulaire. Cette rue est couverte d’une arcade: le cloître. Par là fonctionnent les services communs - la prière, les visites, le manger, les enterrements. Cette ‘cité moderne’ est du quinzième siècle. La vision radieuse m’en est demeurée pour toujours.”

[Le Corbusier, Précisions sur un état présent de l’Architecture et de l’Urbanisme, 1930]

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