Files about the Frontier

this is a blog by the Architectural Design Studio 2B / AA 2015-16 / Department of Science for Architecture / University of Genova / teachers Valter Scelsi and Francesco Librizzi / tutors Paolo Boero, Elisabetta Canepa, Damiano Boldrini [click the arrow to move forward]

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The Gronchi Rosa is a rare Italian postage stamp design error. 

It was part of a 1961 issue for the voyage of president Giovanni Gronchi to South American countries.

The 205 liras stamp was intended for the stopover in Peru. 

The artist R. Mura made a mistake with the boundaries between Peru and Ecuador.

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Las Vegas Strip, August 1969.  Silent home movie, showing Sahara, Stardust, Frontier, Landmark, Flamingo, Dunes, and Dunes golf course where City Center is today. via 8 mm Film Archive

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Tom Wesselmann, Still Life #28, 1963

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7 WONDERS FRONTIER

Nicolò Bifulco, Caterina Cipriani, Elena Geria, Michela Maggiani

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AMERICAN BEAUTY

Valentina Camera, Giulia Galeazzi, Giorgia Less, Anna Maxia

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Files about the Frontier / final critique and exhibition / Tuesday, June 14th 2016 / «Cisternone»  Department of Science for Architecture /

teachers Valter Scelsi and Francesco Librizzi / tutors Paolo Boero, Damiano Boldrini, Elisabetta Canepa / guests Giulia Lecchini, Nicola Lunardi, Giulia Poggi, Federico Robbiano, Luca Scardulla, Alberto Tamburelli, Lorenzo Trompetto / students Emanuele Crovetto, Stefano D’Altocolle, Andrea Ferrando, Livio Frisenna, Giuseppe Folino, Matteo Meneghel, Pasquale Santagata, Marco Sartori, Simone Spinetti, Martina Bruzzese, Antonino Mirenzio, Alessandro Orzo, Federica Santamaria, Federica Balletto, Chiara Boitano, Camilla Caterina Marchioni, Margherita Statini, Martina Scarfò, Giulia Frisone, Xhulia Nuredini, Giorgia Ronco, Rachele Saturnino, Giorgia Soleri, Agostino Anselmo, Manuel Borzoni, Carlo Ceccarelli, Xhulyano Kola, Kevis Koshena, Diego Nicola, Cristina Odone, Simone Pollaci, Pietro Ruisi, Nicolò Bifulco, Caterina Cipriani, Elena Geria, Michela Maggiani, Valentina Camera, Giulia Galeazzi, Giorgia Less, Anna Maxia, Veronica Pestarino, Aida Ashrafi, Mohadese Kheradmand

photos by Paolo Boero

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Francesco Librizzi and Valter Scelsi / Summer 2016 final review / Genova / Photo by Paolo Boero

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UN-CONTEXTUAL

Based on the reflections dealing with the perfect structure of the Cloud Gate, the project explores and discusses issues of flexibility, displacement and relocation by establishing different forms of contextual relation.

The project concerns a series of images based on different topics, each of which linked by a common thread.

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Arco di Portogallo, via Flaminia, Roma, destroyed in 1662

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The Last Frontier was built in 1942 by movie theater chain owner R.E. Griffith, and was the first themed casino in Las Vegas and the second resort to be built on the fledgling Las Vegas Strip.

The Frontier went through various design, theme and name iterations from its original western village to a space-aged “New Frontier”, until his complete redesign in 1966.

His electric sign appears in the cover picture of «Learning from Las Vegas».

It was demolished in 2009 to make way for a vacant lot.

The 2nd term practice is the project of a new Frontier hotel and themed casino.

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Camera, Galeazzi, Less, Maxia / The Frontier, Las Vegas

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Bifulco, Cipriani, Geria, Maggiani / The Frontier, Las Vegas

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Nicola, Odone, Pollaci, Ruisi / The Frontier, Las Vegas

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Anselmo, Borzoni, Ceccarelli, Kola, Koshena / The Frontier, Las Vegas