„Sergio Los“ – Versionsunterschied

Vorlage:Orphan Vorlage:Unreferenced Sergio Los (born 1934, Marostica Vicenza, Italy). Italian architect and thinker, is considered one of the main interpreters of the Regional Bio-climatic Architecture, a design philosophy developed during the seventies (1972-1979) under the pressure of the environmental and energy crisis at the University Iuav of Venice in Italy.

Biography

Born in the Italian city of Marostica VI, his artistic formation took place at the University Iuav of Venice with Carlo Scarpa.

The Early Years

In this early period between 1964 and 1971 he was involved in a collaboration with Carlo Scarpa, working at the Iuav of Venice School of Architecture and following many projects in his office.
He wrote “Carlo Scarpa Architetto Poeta”, published in 1967, which was at that time the first book about Scarpa’s architecture. Realising a Carlo Scarpa’s project for the IUAV Gate, he edited “Verum Ipsum Factum”, CLUVA, Venezia 1984. Later he published Carlo Scarpa, Taschen, Köln 1993, translated in six languages, and “Carlo Scarpa Guida all’architettura”, Arsenale Venezia 1995, translated also in four languages.
Involved in the Design Process Theories, he introduced in Italy the ideas of Christopher Alexander translating his “Notes on the Synthesis of Form” 1967, and the searches of the Cambridge University Martin Centre, editing and translating the book of L. March and P. Steadman “The Geometry of Environment” 1974.

The Academic Career

• Sergio Los is professor of Architectural Composition at the IUAV University, now retired.
• Between 1965 and 1971 he taught Interiors Architecture at the IUAV School of Architecture (IUAV) in Italy.
• Between 1972 and 1978 he taught Town Design in the Department of Giancarlo De Carlo at the IUAV, later between 1979 and 2000 he taught Architectural Composition, showing his main interest in Multi-Scale Architecture.
• From 1970 up to 2000 he is responsible of many research activities for MURST, CNR/ENEA (Italy) PFE, EU, International Energy Agency, on the design of a sustainable multi-scale architecture, published in various books and magazines.
• In 1996 at Louvain la Neuve, he received the 13° PLEA (Passive and Low Energy Architecture) INTERNATIONAL AWARD with Natasha F. Pulitzer, having pursued in research, teaching, and professional activity the integration of the art and the science of architecture.
• In 1998 at Florence, he received the WREN PIONEER AWARD , for his contribution in the design of a renewable energy architecture.
• In 2003 at Berlin he received the European EUROSOLAS PRIZE , for his career in Solar Architecture.

The Regional Architecture Experience

Between 1972 and 1979, he develops a regional bioclimatic approach to multi-scale architecture that drives him into designing and constructing some buildings and city plans. Through an experimental design and building activity, he deepen the concept of a sustainable resilient urban fabric, which is based on the network of civic architecture, aimed to produce a local microclimate in the open outdoor spaces. Having tested some realized projects his design solutions were confirmed and transferred through handbooks. He is involved in the development of lectures and a book under publication “The Geography of Architecture”.

A Knowledge Civic Architecture

In the last twenty years, he is involved in increasing the city’s communicative action, compared to the prevailing instrumental action of the actual metropolises. In his view the city is considered as a communicative system, analogous to the language and to other symbolic systems. The city operates for composing a common world, it becomes for its citizens a way of knowing, but sharing the construction of such knowledge. He is pursuing some cooperative design processes that deal with city plans aimed to activate a learning community. He thinks that only communities of citizens can pursue resilient, sustainable cities.

Works

• Venice, Carlo Scarpa Architetto Poeta. (1967)
• Milan, Italian versions of Note sulla Sintesi della Forma, (1967) La Geometria dell’Ambiente. (1974)
• Venice, Regionalism and Architecture, (1985)
• Trento, Caratteri Ambientali dell’Architettura, (1998)
• Vicenza, The Geography of Architecture, (2005-2008)
• Vicenza, A Knowledge Civic Architecture (2007)