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TaorminaLand is an International Workshop that took place in Taormina and Giardini Naxos, Sicily, between the 26th of August and the 10th of September 2006, organised by the AIP, research laboratory for Architecture, Infrastructure and Landscape, part of the DIAP (Architecture and Planning Department of Politecnico di Milano). We publish here ‘Profanazioni’, the proposal of one of the participant groups that featured Caroline Notari, Enrico Forestieri, Margherita Parati, Irene Avino, Tommaso Caspani, Luciano Cadeddu, Diego Cea, Giampaolo Celada, Afro Carpentieri and Giuliana Posocco as students, Patrizia Scrugli and Gennaro Postiglione as tutors.

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The Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb, Croatia, and the International summer school of Architecture Dubrovnik have organised Green Town Workshop 2006 an international workshop for architecture students. We publish here the final projects developed by 6 different international teams. This post will be updated as more material will be available.

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WWII voids in Milan [by Stefano]

The Diploma work faces the problematic seam of the hurts present in the historical city plan, places where the historical stratifications, the remains and the memories of the urban fabric emerge and mix. Milano stands out as an emblematic city of a common European situation, because from the bombing of the II world war, to the intense today building activity, the city brings continuously to light hidden memories and remains, which reveal the layered character of the past an point out the remains non selective but synchronic value.

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