Prima della forma. L'architettura implicita delle cave di pietra sotterranee

[en] Suspended between myth and reality, stone quarries are places of convergence where human action carves into matter accumulated over geological cycles spanning millions of years.Quarrying practices have accompanied the evolution of human settlements on Earth, generat-ing landscapes with a dual character. Constructed by addition on the surface and by subtraction in depth, these voids challenge the myth of untouched nature, exposing the contradictions inherent in the processes of landscapes artificialisation.From an ecosystemic perspective, the displacement of lithic material within terrestrial space as-signs to architecture a geological temporality, inscribed in the cycles of ‘formation’, ‘deformation’, and ‘transformation’ of human habitats. In design terms, stone quarries offer a privileged observa-tory for exploring architectural practices as the result of complex interferences between matter and energy, space and time.

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Architecture

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Caravello, Chiara ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Unité de Recherches de la Faculté d'Architecture (URA)

Gritti, Andrea

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Italian

Title :

Prima della forma. L'architettura implicita delle cave di pietra sotterranee

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08 May 2026

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Ri-vista : Ricerche per la Progettazione del Paesaggio

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1724-6768

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Firenze University Press

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146-161

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