"Why the need, in some way the urgency, of a historically retrospective number of
«ArchAlp» magazine dedicated to the houses of Alpine modernity?
The intent of this issue is to investigate the relationship between twentieth century
modernity and contemporaneity in terms of breaks and novelties, of continuity and
discontinuity, of shooting, variations and implementations, not just under the formal
and linguistic aspect. In other words, are there points of interaction, long lasting red
threads between the architectural vision of Lois Welzenbacher, Charlotte Perriand,
Carlo Mollino, and that of Peter Zumthor, Gion A. Caminada, Bernardo Bader? It is
basically a way to understand the existence of more or less long trajectories in the
way architecture has set the critical and cultural field of mountain construction, recognizing
differences and specificities.
Although these are generally well-known projects, the works published in this issue
of «ArchAlp» are not uniformly known in the territories that refer to the Alpine space.
Hence the importance of gathering together a series of architectures that have had
the potential for prototypes in order to submit them to a general and comparative
view.
Even in the absence of perhaps direct subsidiaries, the architectures presented in
these pages represent an extraordinary patrimony of design moves and strategies
which, through the internalization of experiences, deeply influenced the formation
and determination of the contemporary architectural research field in the Alpine
environment."
Aspek Semantik dan Pragmatik dalam Penerjemahan
