Piano Progetto Paesaggio Gestire le trasformazioni paesaggistiche. Temi e strumenti per la qualità – Plan Project Landscape Managing landscape transformations. Themes and tools for quality

by Lorenzo Vallerini (editor)

Pacini Editore, Pisa -Italy

© 2010

Italian text

224 pp., col.ill., cm 24×30 (with DVD)  € 35,00

ISBN: 978-88-6315-261-6

What are the relationships between man-landscape-transformation? Are admissible-possible landscape transformations? Is every transformation detrimental to the form of the “beautiful landscape”? Should we intervene before or after a new architecture, a new settlement or infrastructure? How can we reconcile protection and transformation? How can we save the landscape without “plastering” it?

To face these questions, the European Landscape Convention (Italian National Act nr.14/2006) identifies objectives and criteria to guide landscape transformations, with quality characteristics. And this book, starting from a research (2006-2009) between the Ministry of Culture Superintendency of Siena and Grosseto and the University of Florence with funding from the Monte dei Paschi di Siena Foundation, attempts to give a contribution in this sense with technical and operational proposals, useful for the landscape design in urban planning and for the proper fit of new architectures and structures.

One of the main points, which links the plan and/or project to the landscape, is the knowledge of the context. However, it seems that there are two ways to conceive this path. The first one is aimed at checking the compatibility and/or adequacy of the interventions and the second one is aimed at conscious transformation, or the culture of creating the contemporary landscape. This is a significant distinction: the first approach aims at safeguarding the existing, or the immobility, while the second takes charge of innovative operations aimed at environmental rebalancing, within which invention is the master (the exact opposite of immobility). And here arise the questions that virtuously produce a real disciplinary fertilization of Landscape Architecture, starting from the vulnerability and potential of the context to finally arrive at a new sustainability pattern.