Emergency Planning

JANUARY 5, 2022

It is part of the language of architecture through the ages, and its vocabulary is very rich indeed. Who now reads, for example, On Growth and Form , or The Story of Art , or The Four Books of Architecture ? The Four Books of Architecture ( I quattro libri dell'architettura , 1570). More does not mean better. The Story of Art.

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Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

With participation and oversight from the University of Florence's Department of Architecture, it was carefully reconstructed to anti-seismic standards, with full restoration of its historic buildings and the original character of its built environment. This small, ancient hilltop settlement was completely ruined.

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Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

It is an architectural paradise of which the inhabitants are, rightly, fiercely proud. It was founded 3,770 years ago and has suffered many vicissitudes over the better part of four millennia. The current urban form was largely given to it by Norman invaders 940 years ago.

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Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It is a mixture of simple errors, lax procedures, ignorance, deliberate evasion, indifference to public safety, untenable architectural fashions, corruption and failure to enforce the codes. The tragedy lies in their non-observance and the paucity of retrofitting.

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Emergency Planning

MAY 27, 2019

His fascination in the modern era consists of a mixture of his genius in many fields (painting, natural history, hydraulics, flight, mechanics, architecture, military strategy, weaponry, anatomy, and so on) and his secretiveness. Yet strangely, Leonardo, the archetypal Renaissance polymath, did not take on the world.

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Emergency Planning

AUGUST 20, 2021

In 1978 the architect Ian Davis published a small book entitled Shelter After Disaster , [iv] which included a number of well-chosen exposés of post-disaster housing as architectural fantasy rather than useful dwelling place.

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Emergency Planning

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

There are also areas that are not so popular with researchers, and one of these is emergency planning. Secondly, we need to make emergency planning more rigorous and standardise it on the basis of well-chosen benchmarks. In addition the city's emergency plan has been comprehensively revised.

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