CHG Construction History Group Politecnico di Torino - DAD

IL CANTIERE GUARINIANO
Seminar organized by Edoardo Piccoli, Gaia Nuccio, Stefano Benedetto, Corrado Azzolini
March 31st 2026
Turin, Archivio di Stato (Piazzetta Carlo Mollino 1)

Guarino Guarini’s (1624-1683) experiments in construction, both admired and criticized by architectural culture, have elicited a sophisticated but not yet satisfying scholarly body of work. Guarini’s use of stereotomy and the “stereotomic mode” of his design-build processes have been investigated since the 1970s, and yet, even these topics deserve further research, especially regarding the relationship between theory and practice.

Lecture by Vladimir Korensky “Physical Models in Construction Education: The Example of Historical Patents”

Lecture by David Wendland “The Use of Physical Models in Design and Reverse Engineering of Free-form Masonry Shells”

Lecture by Maddalena Della Pietra, Mohammad Javad Azari Nezhadian, Corrado Chisari, Giuseppe D’Arenzo, Mattia Z**i, Marinella Fossetti, Gianfranco De Matteis “Construction, Testingand Modeling of a Full-scale Historic Masonry Vault”

Lecture by Chiara Calderini, Marco Alforno “La Mole Antonelliana e la sua guglia: prove aerodinamiche su modello in scala nella galleria del vento del Politecnico di Torino (1956)”

Lecture by Maria Rosaria Vitale, Dimitris Theodossopoulos, “The Use of Models for the New Roof Trusses for Churches in Northern France Destroyed in WW1”

Lecture by Giuliana Cardani, Dario Coronelli “The Physical Structural Model of the Pillars of Milan Cathedral: A Race Against Time”

Lecture by Eleonora Caggiati “I modelli nell’architettura di Giuseppe Pizzigoni: il significato di un metodo progettuale”

Lecture by Alessandro Cavallo “Mario Cavallée la costruzione di un’idea. Il modello fisico per la comprensione e la trasposizione di principi statico-costruttivi”

Lecture by Rosario Ceravolo, Mario Alberto Chiorino, Gabriele Neri and Alessio Crocetti “Il ruolo di Guido Oberti (1907-2004) nello sviluppo della modellazione strutturale in Italia nel Novecento”

Lecture by Jorge Galindo-Díaz, GiaimeBotti “The Ortega-Billner Roof: From Construction to Experimentation (1952–1955)”