Books by Alessandro Camiz, Ph.D.
Large models in small urban settlements, "FORMA CIVITATIS: International journal of urban and territorial morphological studies (IJUTMS), 2021
ISSN 2748-2812 (Print); ISSN 2748-3134 (Online); ISBN: 9783933713667.
Il volume raccoglie dodici lezioni di architettura, così come furono presentate dall’autore tra i... more Il volume raccoglie dodici lezioni di architettura, così come furono presentate dall’autore tra il 2003 e il 2016 nelle diverse edizioni del Seminario di Architettura e Cultura Urbana all’Università di Camerino. I diversi saggi trattano specifici argomenti di ricerca e di progetto e possono essere riassunti dai tre temi Tipo, Modello, Tessuto. Questa successione descrive diacronicamente il percorso dell’autore nelle istituzioni di ricerca delle Facoltà di Architettura dell’Università di Roma Sapienza e, in qualche modo, riassume la sua visione dell’architettura. Ogni progetto deve inevitabilmente confrontarsi con il tipo architettonico, ma nella fase compositiva il progettista ha sempre in mente un modello a cui ispirarsi e, tra queste due nozioni di tipo e modello, appare improvvisamente il tessuto come qualcosa di collettivo di cui ogni città è composta.
Questo volume indaga sul problema di come i piccoli centri storici possano non solo sopravvivere ... more Questo volume indaga sul problema di come i piccoli centri storici possano non solo sopravvivere quali testimonianze di una straordinaria civiltà architettonica ma, soprattutto, avere un loro sviluppo alternativo alla metropoli. Propone di rivolgersi allo spazio antico per rivisitarlo con occhi nuovi, come fertile occasione di riflessione imposta dalla crisi e preludio ad un nuovo equilibrio tra territorio e città. Contro la tendenza ad indicare, per questi, un uso soprattutto abitativo, propone di restituire alle aree centrali la capacità di accogliere nuove strutture che nascano dalla specializzazione del tessuto, cosí come è sempre accaduto nella formazione della città italiana attraverso processi di “annodamento” edilizio e urbano.
This text explores the question of how small old towns may survive as testimonies of an extraordinary architectural civilization and, above all, how we can adopt them as a development model alternative to that of the contemporary metropolis. It looks at the ancient space, by revisiting it with new eyes, as a fertile opportunity for a reflection imposed by the crisis, and as a prelude to a new equilibrium between the territory and the city. Against the tendency to propose the sole residential use for these towns, it suggests to reinstate in the central areas new structures arising from the specialization of urban fabrics, following the process of urban and building “knotting”, as has always happened in the history of Italian cities.
The notion of order in architecture is not derived from the classical treatises but is based on ... more The notion of order in architecture is not derived from the classical treatises but is based on an oriented translation who spread the word in all subsequent literature, Vitruvius uses instead the word "genus" with a meaning that is quite different from that of "ordo", however, it has been translated as "order" and became prevalent since the Renaissance in most theories on architecture.
Edited volumes by Alessandro Camiz, Ph.D.
LARGE MODELS IN SMALL URBAN SETTLEMENTS, 2021
FORMA CIVITATIS, International Journal of Urban and Territorial
Morphological Studies, Vol.1, N.1... more FORMA CIVITATIS, International Journal of Urban and Territorial
Morphological Studies, Vol.1, N.1, 2021,
LARGE MODELS IN SMALL URBAN SETTLEMENTS
Alessandro Camiz, Martin Ebert and Giorgio Verdiani eds.
Grünberg Verlag, Weimar and Rostock, GREEN OPEN ACCESS: J123-2020-FC; ISSN
2748-2812 (Print); ISSN 2748-3134 (Online); ISBN: 9783933713667
Journal is open access, all papers are available in PDF here
http://www.formacivitatis.com/index.php/journal/issue/current
Hardcopies may be ordered through the Publisher's website
http://www.grunbergverlag.de/
Table of Contents
Editorial
Forma Civitatis: playing with meaning and form
Alessandro Camiz
Articles
From the fortifications to the strongholds. The modifications of the
defensive culture of the city ancient Régime in relation to the birth of the
modern governance of the territory.
Maria Carolina Campone
The inner geography of hill-top towns A discussion on the effects of
altimetry on configuration
Valerio Cutini
Border, nomos, identity
Stefano Lambardi
A methodical approach to the comparative study of planted towns in 13th
century Meklenburg
Martin Ebert
The Cerro de Pasco effect
Eleonora Cecconi
Small towns and digital survey: virtualizing Castelvecchio Calvisio,
Abruzzo, Italy
Giorgio Verdiani, Andrea Leonardi, Stéphane Giraudeau
Book Reviews
Richard Nemec: Die Ökonomisierung des Raumes. Planen und Bauen in Mittel-
und Osteuropa unter den Nationalsozialisten 1938 bis 1945
Martin Ebert
Designing change, changing architecture
Alessandro Camiz
Thesis
Reading and designing the urban fabric of San Vito Romano
Virginia Cosenza
Calls for papers
Pandemics and the changing built environment
Alessandro Camiz
Reports
A Report on the 2020 ISAR International Architecture Summer School in
Abruzzo
Thomas Greene Rankin
Cities in evolution: diachronic transformation of urban and rural
settlements
Alessandro Camiz
ARCHITECTURE, ARCHAEOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY CITY PLANNING Multi-Layered Settlements - Proceedings, 2019
In discussions on urbanism, the need to involve new actors has been a major theme of recent debat... more In discussions on urbanism, the need to involve new actors has been a major theme of recent debate. In this field, throughout Europe, various ways of allowing citizens to take a more direct part in planning is stressed. It is also important to look at the role or lack of the role played by particular research fields. Architecture plays a major role in city planning. While Archaeology has become increasingly involved in field projects in urban environments, the discipline seldom plays an important role in City Planning. In several countries and particular cities this situation has been questioned during the last decades. In November 2018, a group of scholars from different countries met in Mersin, Turkey, to discuss about the relationship between Architecture, Archaeology and Contemporary City Planning. This book collects the final papers from that meeting.
Collection of the Abstracts of the AACCP 2019 ROME, ITALY
Committee: Liisa Seppänen, Per Cornel... more Collection of the Abstracts of the AACCP 2019 ROME, ITALY
Committee: Liisa Seppänen, Per Cornell, Giorgio Verdiani, Pablo Rodriguez-Navarro, James Dixon, Sinan Burat. The workshop will be realized in collaboration between the University of Turku, Finland, the Architecture Department of the University of Florence, Italy and the Department of Historical Studies of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
by Pablo Rodríguez-Navarro, Giorgio Verdiani, Iacopo Giannini, Angela Mancuso, Alessandro Camiz, Ph.D., Anna Frascari, Paolo Formaglini, Pedro M. Cabezos-Bernal, Silvia D'Andrea, and Enrico Tomassini In discussions on urbanism, the need to involve new actors has been a major theme of recent debat... more In discussions on urbanism, the need to involve new actors has been a major theme of recent debate. In this eld, throughout Europe, various ways of allowing citizens to take a more direct part in planning is stressed. It is also important to look at the role or lack of role played by particular research elds. Architecture plays a major role in city planning. While archaeology has become increasingly involved in eld projects in urban environments, the discipline seldom plays an important role in city planning. In several countries and particular cities this situation has been questioned during the last decades. In May 2015 a group of scholars from different countries met in Valencia to discuss about the relationship between Architecture, Archaeology and contemporary City Planning. This book collects the nal papers from that meeting.
Abstract collection of the Scholar Workshop "Architecture, Archaeology and Contemporary City Plan... more Abstract collection of the Scholar Workshop "Architecture, Archaeology and Contemporary City Planning" Turku, Finland, 15-18th May 2017.
Exhibition catalogue from the Fortmed 2016 Conference, all posters and comments about the activit... more Exhibition catalogue from the Fortmed 2016 Conference, all posters and comments about the activities with the Girne American University.
Catalogue of the exhibition "Modern Age Fortifications of the Mediterranean Coast", Department of... more Catalogue of the exhibition "Modern Age Fortifications of the Mediterranean Coast", Department of Architecture, Unversity of Florence, 10-11 November 2016. edited by Alessandro Camiz and Giorgio Verdiani
This volume collects the papers presented during the study day “Toponymy Common Heritage”, organi... more This volume collects the papers presented during the study day “Toponymy Common Heritage”, organized by the Department of Cultural Heritage of the Rome Chapter of Architects at the House of Architecture in Rome, September 10, 2013. Place-names are variable by their own nature. They change over time, and often move from one place to another, recording with their transformations different societies and regimes that follow in time so to become with due caution a true historical source. For this variability, we should protect place-names, establishing an archive to record the different occurrences found in historical sources, together with their variations in time. Yet the names, among the most variable things as to belong to the category of intangible cultural heritage, appear here alongside with places, characterized instead by a high degree of permanence. For sure, the form of the territory is evolving very slowly, or with times that are almost irrelevant if compared to the historical time.
Book Chapters by Alessandro Camiz, Ph.D.
M. Balzani, F. Maietti, F. Raco (eds) Heritage at Risk. Improving Resilience and Awareness towards Preservation, Risk Mitigation and Governance Strategies, CRC Press/Balkema, Abingdon, Oxon,, 2025
The paper presents the partial results of a research conducted in 2020 and 2021 during the 1st an... more The paper presents the partial results of a research conducted in 2020 and 2021 during the 1st and 2nd ISAR- Özyeğin University summer school programme in Castelvecchio Calvisio (AQ). We present here five experimental projects for the transformation of medieval houses in Castelvecchio Calvisio, a hilltop town in Abruzzo. The design proposals are the consequence of a thorough typo-morphological analysis outlining the typological process of the houses and of a LIDAR and photogrammetric campaign conducted by a team from University of Florence (Verdiani, Giraudeau and Leonardi, 2021). After recognising the typo-morphological characters of the urban organism at different scales, it was possible to define different design strategies to be applied to different parts of the walled urban core. For the inner urban tissue, the oldest one, we decided to proceed with a substantial restoration, according to Cesare Brandi’s Restoration Principles, in order to maintain the identity of the urban tissue, but applied a radical typological update to the different units, following the identified typological process, in order to improve the housing units according to contemporary needs. For the outer circle, we selected an image reintegration strategy, in order to fill the missing parts of the urban tissue with new buildings, conceived within the continuation of the identified typological process, adopting local materials but introducing some innovative technologies and contemporary characters following the principle of recognisability. Post-seismic design of historical urban tissues damaged by earthquakes should as much as possible respect the local characters, without ever assuming a mimetic intention
CASTEL DI SANGRO: TECNOLOGIE E PROGETTI, 2025
The project for a public park in front of the Convento della Maddalena in Castel di Sangro, which... more The project for a public park in front of the Convento della Maddalena in Castel di Sangro, which we are presenting here, aims to demonstrate the application to the landscape of a consolidated design methodology based on the recognition of the various phases of transformation of an organism, as a premise for the transformation project, understood therefore as the continuation of an identified process in progress. On the other hand, the recognition of the process underway does not entail any univocal determination of how this can be continued by means of a modification; on the contrary, this recognition arises as a synthetic interpretative act whose possible design outcomes are innumerable. Only the adoption of a signifying model derived from an oriented deformation of the process is capable of attributing to the final result a significant character, not imposed by the designer, but derived from the process itself through its deformation oriented towards a recognisable meaning.
Il Progetto di Architettura nella Terza Missione, 2024
Durante la Summer School EXTENDED MIND FOR THE DESIGN OF THE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT, 2-6/9/2024 Univer... more Durante la Summer School EXTENDED MIND FOR THE DESIGN OF THE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT, 2-6/9/2024 Università “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara, abbiamo coordinato il Workshop 2024 del Corso di Composizione Architettonica e Urbana 3 B, (Assoc. Prof. Alessandro Camiz, tutors: G. Cassano, G. Catena, A. Mancini) sul Parco e Museo archeologico al Campo Rampigna. Il workshop è stato il primo momento di una collaborazione fattiva con la Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio per
le province di Chieti e Pescara.
Architettura e Città, argomenti di architettura", n. 19/24, La cura dei luoghi, 2024
A margine di una ricerca Erasmus + ID4Ex2 abbiamo organizzato una summer school a Priene in Turch... more A margine di una ricerca Erasmus + ID4Ex2 abbiamo organizzato una summer school a Priene in Turchia nell’estate del 2022. In quel contesto abbiamo voluto sperimentare la nozione di immersione declinata non solo in senso tecnologico, ma più profondamente in senso culturale. Ci interessava evidenziare la radice latina di immergere, mettere sott’acqua.
Andrea Giordano, Michele Russo, Roberta Spallone (eds.) Advances in Representation. New AI- and XR-Driven Transdisciplinarity, Cham: Springer, 2024
Immersive design, an innovative notion deriving from the gaming industry (Ceylanlı et al., Procee... more Immersive design, an innovative notion deriving from the gaming industry (Ceylanlı et al., Proceedings of Architecture, Archaeology and Contemporary City Planning (AACCP) Multi-Layered Settlements, Lulu, Raleigh, 2019 [1]), has recently invaded the architectural design practice, generating at times innovative architectural solutions and perhaps a new style which is not widely accepted. This new style has generated a strenuous opposition to innovative tools within the rather conservative architectural composition research field. In fact, our interest is not in the possibility of generating complex forms using these technologies, but rather in their deployment for a proper representation of heritage buildings or contexts, within a design environment, where to define conformal and contextually placed design solutions.
M. Ricci ed., Medways Open Atlas, LetteraVentidue Edizioni, Siracusa,, 2022
The Mediterranean that we are describing in the Medways research is divided in two parts by an a... more The Mediterranean that we are describing in the Medways research is divided in two parts by an ancient line. This line dates back to the time of Diocletian who introduced the tetrarchy dividing the Roman Empire into separate administrative domains, one in the East and one in the West. Perhaps this line has shifted today from its original position, but it is still there, and the ongoing war in Ukraine seems to be a consequence of that very same line. In order to reconnect these two divided parts of the Mediterranean, and of the surrounding landscapes, we would like to build a narrative related to the road that connected the two capitals of the Eastern and Western Roman Empire. We will poetically move, as in an imitation game, from Constantinople to Rome along the so-called via militaris. This route was actually a network of roads that connected the two capitals of the empire through the Balkans. The via militaris gradually replaced by importance the older via Egnatia, which connected Constantinople to Durrës, then across the Adriatic Sea to Brindisi, and finally to Rome along the Via Appia. After the tetrarchy, when the Empire moved its gravity centre towards the Balkan area, the via militaris became the main infrastructure of an itinerant principality. It is no coincidence that Constantine the Great was born in a city along this path, Naissus (Nis).
in Feliciotti, A. and Fleischmann, M. (eds.) ISUF Annual Conference Proceedings of the XXVIII International Seminar on Urban Form, "Urban Form and the Sustainable and Prosperous City", (Glasgow, 29 June - 03 July 2021), University of Strathclyde Publishing, Glasgow, pp. 711-718. ISBN 978191424116, , 2022
Studies on the formation process of building types delineate a long term transition in the form o... more Studies on the formation process of building types delineate a long term transition in the form of the city. The findings of the excavations done in Palmyra and Bet Shean have revealed that the transition from the late Roman period to the Umayyad one happened with strong continuity of the built environment (Raymond, 2008). The evolution of building types has been expounded by Caniggia (1979) in Naples as the formation of courtyard houses over the Roman Domus substrata. Meanwhile, no trace of transition from Roman Domus was found in parts of central Italy (including Rome), southern Italy (excluding Naples), and Provence (Petruccioli, 2008). This paper aims to describe the typological process subsistent in the development of medieval Zaragoza with reference to the forces shaping the building blocks and their organization. The city of Zaragoza was founded by Caesar Augustus as a colony after the victory of the Roman Empire in the Cantabrian Wars in 14 BC on the site of an Iberian city named Saldube. In the VIII century, the Roman city was included in the Umayyad caliphate. Previous theoretical reconstructions based on archeological evidence cast the urban tissue of Caesar Augusta into a grid plan with special buildings and courtyard houses as the leading residential type. This study evaluates the territory as a historically identified organism (Strappa, Carlotti, Camiz, 2017) by mounting the individual building survey plans done by Dionisio Casañal y Zapatero for the Geographic and Cadastral Institute of Zaragoza in 1911 into a typological plan in order to individuate the typological process within the medieval city.
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Books by Alessandro Camiz, Ph.D.
This text explores the question of how small old towns may survive as testimonies of an extraordinary architectural civilization and, above all, how we can adopt them as a development model alternative to that of the contemporary metropolis. It looks at the ancient space, by revisiting it with new eyes, as a fertile opportunity for a reflection imposed by the crisis, and as a prelude to a new equilibrium between the territory and the city. Against the tendency to propose the sole residential use for these towns, it suggests to reinstate in the central areas new structures arising from the specialization of urban fabrics, following the process of urban and building “knotting”, as has always happened in the history of Italian cities.
Edited volumes by Alessandro Camiz, Ph.D.
Morphological Studies, Vol.1, N.1, 2021,
LARGE MODELS IN SMALL URBAN SETTLEMENTS
Alessandro Camiz, Martin Ebert and Giorgio Verdiani eds.
Grünberg Verlag, Weimar and Rostock, GREEN OPEN ACCESS: J123-2020-FC; ISSN
2748-2812 (Print); ISSN 2748-3134 (Online); ISBN: 9783933713667
Journal is open access, all papers are available in PDF here
http://www.formacivitatis.com/index.php/journal/issue/current
Hardcopies may be ordered through the Publisher's website
http://www.grunbergverlag.de/
Table of Contents
Editorial
Forma Civitatis: playing with meaning and form
Alessandro Camiz
Articles
From the fortifications to the strongholds. The modifications of the
defensive culture of the city ancient Régime in relation to the birth of the
modern governance of the territory.
Maria Carolina Campone
The inner geography of hill-top towns A discussion on the effects of
altimetry on configuration
Valerio Cutini
Border, nomos, identity
Stefano Lambardi
A methodical approach to the comparative study of planted towns in 13th
century Meklenburg
Martin Ebert
The Cerro de Pasco effect
Eleonora Cecconi
Small towns and digital survey: virtualizing Castelvecchio Calvisio,
Abruzzo, Italy
Giorgio Verdiani, Andrea Leonardi, Stéphane Giraudeau
Book Reviews
Richard Nemec: Die Ökonomisierung des Raumes. Planen und Bauen in Mittel-
und Osteuropa unter den Nationalsozialisten 1938 bis 1945
Martin Ebert
Designing change, changing architecture
Alessandro Camiz
Thesis
Reading and designing the urban fabric of San Vito Romano
Virginia Cosenza
Calls for papers
Pandemics and the changing built environment
Alessandro Camiz
Reports
A Report on the 2020 ISAR International Architecture Summer School in
Abruzzo
Thomas Greene Rankin
Cities in evolution: diachronic transformation of urban and rural
settlements
Alessandro Camiz
Committee: Liisa Seppänen, Per Cornell, Giorgio Verdiani, Pablo Rodriguez-Navarro, James Dixon, Sinan Burat. The workshop will be realized in collaboration between the University of Turku, Finland, the Architecture Department of the University of Florence, Italy and the Department of Historical Studies of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Book Chapters by Alessandro Camiz, Ph.D.
le province di Chieti e Pescara.