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Italian to English - Rates: 0.07 - 0.10 EUR per word / 25 - 35 EUR per hour French to English - Rates: 0.07 - 0.10 EUR per word / 25 - 35 EUR per hour German to English - Rates: 0.07 - 0.10 EUR per word / 25 - 35 EUR per hour
Italian to English: Mario Botta (Motta 24Ore Cultura Minimum Series) General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Architecture
Source text - Italian Edificare sottraendo
Delle costruzioni di Botta è stato detto più volte che si presentano come dei blocchi monolitici, ai quali sono inferte profonde ferite nelle grandi spaccature che fungono da finestre e lucernari. Blocchi monolitici, con vuoti lacerati per sottrazione di materia. Mi sto chiedendo se la logica che conduce a quel risultato non batta la strada opposta. Mi sto chiedendo cioè se l’idea prima, il nucleo concettuale da cui Botta parte non sia il vuoto; se da lì e non dal pieno egli non inizi a organizzare lo spazio a sua disposizione. La famosa questione delle porte mancanti, delle pareti divisorie assenti (che sta diventando il luogo comune delle riserve o dell’irrisione benpensante alla sua architettura), troverebbe, in questa prospettiva, una risposta non forzata. Quelle pareti, quelle porte mancano perché non sono mai nate, non perché siano state eliminate. Il vuoto imperante non vuol lasciarsi trinciare in modo così banale. Egli la fa talmente da padrone, che detta regole di distribuzione in modo da lasciar intatta la sua suprema unità. La casa di Adamo, per Botta, almeno in questa fase iniziale, non è il tetto di paglia, la capanna manufatta con tronchi adattati a formare un pieno, il primo nido umano; è piuttosto l’antro portato idealmente all’aria aperta, con intorno una pellicola, un involucro sottile che ne conservi l’immagine e la natura: caverna in positivo, spelonche impellicciate. Le aperture che solcano le sue case non sarebbero allora ferite inferte alla compattezza dell’edificio, bensì le naturali fenditure, i cunicoli, i camini sul cielo emergenti dopo questa ipotetica estrazione dell’antro dal seno della terra. Se è così, edificare sarebbe, all’inizio, sottrarre.
Translation - English Building by subtracting
It has often been said Botta’s constructions are monolithic blocks, which have been inflicted by deep wounds in the great fissures that function as windows and skylights. Monolithic blocks, with lacerated voids caused by the subtraction of matter. I wonder if the logic that leads to that result does not take the opposite route. I wonder if the first idea, the conceptual nucleus from which Botta departs, is not instead the void; if it is from there and not from the solid that he starts to organize the space at this disposal. The famous question of the missing doors, of absent dividing walls (that are becoming a commonplace of the reserves or of the self-righteous derision of his architecture) would find, in this perspective, an answer that is not forced. Those walls, those doors are missing because they were never there in the first place, not because they were eliminated. The reigning void does not want to let itself be cut to bits in such a banal way. He plays master to the extent that he dictates the rules of distribution so as to leave its supreme unity intact. The house of Adam, for Botta, at least in this initial phase, was not a straw roof, or a hut made with trunks fashioned so as to form a solid, the first human nest. Rather, it was the cave ideally brought into the open air, with a film around it, a thin wrapping that preserves his image and nature: the cavern in the positive, caves wrapped in furs. The openings that make grooves in his houses are thus not wounds inflicted on the compactness of the building, but rather natural crevices, underground passages, vents emerging into the sky after this hypothetical extraction from the cavern in the earth’s breast. If this is the way things are, building is, from the beginning, subtracting.
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Bachelor's degree - IULM - FELTRE
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Years of experience: 35. Registered at ProZ.com: Jun 2009.
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