The life of the Airport: SMA and LUG

Nuria Casais (Editor in chief), Alessandro Martinelli (Editor)

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Abstract

This book is one of the products of the i2a research "infrarealities - unraveling the management and maintenance of the urban condition".
It approaches the theme of the airport through the curation of the work of two artists: Giuseppe De Mattia and Donatello De Mattia.
Giuseppe De Mattia collaborates with his work about Santa Maria Airport (Portugal) for a documentary b French director Marc Weymuller. This work investigates the actuality of the airport’s surroundings, an urban environment which understanding requires a sort of archeological operation.
Donatello De Mattia collaborates with his video-registrations that are use to look at the Lugano Airport (Switzerland) as a small-scale infrastructure with a boundary towards the Alps landscape. This work enhances the strange character of this infrastructure which, given the strong presence of the surrounding Swiss Alps, fully participates to the landscape, transforms it into a new architectural typology.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherLISTLAB
Number of pages96
ISBN (Print)9788895623580
Publication statusPublished - 2012

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