Journey to Palladium 2023 - report from the excursion
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The deconstructivist building was meant to arouse rather than inspire questions and not consider the Pritzker Prize as the only criterion architectural qualities. Bott's church of Beato Odorico in Pordenone they opened exactly after our arrival, so we could also eat inside view all the details referring to the personalities with whom At the beginning of his career, Botta collaborated with (C.Scarpa, Le Corbusier, Louis I. Kahn). Venetian stucco on the interior walls even the facing brickwork has hardly aged after a quarter of a century. We looked under the majestic Monte Grappa mountain range in Possagno extension of the studio of the classicist sculptor Antonio Canova in his hometown, where there is a famous sculptor in the antiquing temple buried. Scarpa's sensitive construction is completely from the street imperceptible. Corner skylights of new exhibition halls they give the plaster casts of Canova's sculptures a unique atmosphere. In the following days, Scarpa's range was in the program larger implementation, but here the students could get to know each other Scarpa's equal dialogue between the new layers and the historical one architecture. The first encounter with Palladio's work was wooden a bridge resting on razor-sharp pylons over a predation the mountain river Brenta in the famous city of Bassano del Grappa wine brandy of the same name. The red-colored Palladian Bridge se became a symbol of the entire city and also appears on the labels of the line producers of local grap. At the same time, it was convenient to imagine Palladia not only as the author of city palaces and country villas, but also as a skilled designer. Upon arrival in Vicenza se the excursion logically followed in Palladio's footsteps. A short look to Palazzo Valmarana, Palazzo Chiericati and Teatro Olimpico. Empty the hall of the Basilica Palladiana preparing for the next exhibition at least made it possible to feel the power of free space with an area of ??over 1100 m2 and over 24 meters high. Because to accommodate there was no fifty-member excursion at the beginning of the tourist season simple, so the program had to be modified slightly and instead of the northern ring road to Lake Como, where the hotels were sold out by the week tours at twice the prices offered by hotels south of Lombardy metropolis. After spending the night on the outskirts of Vicenza, we transported to nearby Verona, where only two points were on the program – Museo Castelvecchio and Banca Popolare. Only on reconstruction medieval castle Scarpa spent fourteen long years, so it would not make sense to rush the excursion. After another night on the outskirts we had a longer crossing to Milan, where the bus dropped us off at the Prada Foundation by Rem Koolhaas and through other buildings by the owners Pritzker Prizes (SANAA and Grafton) on the campus of a private university Bocconi we through local rationalists (BBPR, L.Dominioni, P.Portaluppi) walked all the way to the Milan Cathedral. Accommodation it was in the center by the water channel Ripa di Porta Ticinese, where it reigns busy night life, but there had to be students early in the morning ready to absorb a tour of three other Italian cities Modena, Bologna and Ferrara. Friday's program did start somberly by visiting Rossi's San Cataldo cemetery in Modena, but represents one of the strongest postmodern projects. Moreover, as if here one finds himself inside the painting of Giorgio de Chirico. Patriotism for us did not allow to miss the local Ferrari museum from Czech native and high-tech visionary Jan Kaplický, whose the bright yellow animal surrounds the brick factory, where a racing legend was born. Le was an unsuspected stop for many Corbusier's l'Esprit Nouveau pavilion in Bologna, which although originally was created in 1925 for the Paris exhibition, but in 1977 They decided to build a replica in Italy (a decade before it was created replica of Mies' Barcelona pavilion). Catch a glimpse of the red curtains in the Bologna palaces and continue to Ferrara, where Benedetta Tagliabue completed the organic church two years ago. Happy by chance, we were newly accommodated in the neighborhood of the reconstructed Palazzo dei Diamanti. They were on the last day only two buildings on the program. Palladio's villa la Rotonda is for open to the public only on weekends and otherwise serves the family Valmarana, which owns another Renaissance villa nearby Valmarana in Nani, where he operated in the adjacent farm building Carlo Scarpa his studio. The penultimate stop was the cemetery of the Brion-Vega family near the town of Antivole, where he is buried in a corner also the author. Before returning to Brno, we still had a tour Padua, where Donatello's equestrian statue of Gattamelata was before St. Anthony's Basilica engraved under the scaffolding. To the Palazzo della Ragione is easily interchangeable with Basilica Palladiana the most persistent. After a peaceful night crossing, the bus took us again dropped off in front of the faculty on Sunday morning.
The excursion to northern Italy offered only a small taste of what what this area can offer. She was supposed to get the students excited about the soon return, either for another trip, work or study internships. As the architectural self-taught Tadao Ando says, who he learned everything necessary for his profession by traveling to buildings: "It is important that one knows as much as possible environment - traveling makes him an architect."
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