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Giovanna Silva è nata a Milano. Dopo la laurea in architettura si dedica alla fotografia. Nella sua ricerca prevalgono la dimensione urbanistica e il viaggio: con il lavoro su Bogotà ha partecipato alla Biennale di Venezia del 2006. Dal 2008 fa parte di Desertmed, collettivo che conduce un progetto sulle isole deserte del Mediterraneo. Nel 2008 ha pubblicato Desertions (a+m bookstore, Milano) cronaca del suo viaggio nel deserto americano con Enzo Mari. Lavora per diverse riviste italiane ed estere tra le quali «Abitare», di cui è stata photoeditor dal 2007 al 2010, e «Domus». Nel 2010 ha co-fondato la rivista «San Rocco» ed è attualmente parte della redazione. 

http://www.giovannasilva.com/algeri/

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Shibam Hadhramaut - Shibam, Yemen

Like Manhattan, the high-rises of Shibam were built on a rectangular grid of streets and squares. Unlike Manhattan, the skyscrapers are made of mud, date back to the 16th century, and the dusty streets are often overrun with goats.

Shibam, in the desert of central Yemen, is home to about 7,000 people. Located at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, the small town was once a stopping point for traders traveling along the frankincense and spice routes.

The walled city of “skyscrapers” was built on a hill in the 1530s after a mighty flood destroyed much of the existing settlement. Its five hundred huddled buildings, ranging from five to eleven stories high, are the tallest mud buildings in the world and provided protection against the elements and deterred potential attackers. They continue to shelter the residents of Shibam.

Take a virtual trip to Shibam Hadhramaut on Atlas Obscura!

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VBall (5) sur Bloc Arches - Grain fin - 300g/m² - 31x41cm

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Scaffolding by Various 

photos via 1, 2, 3, 4

Most architecture has to be built twice, the second time is what everyone sees, the finished piece. But the first time is through ubiquitous temporary material. No matter how monolithic a structure becomes, the realizing of it, the baking of it, can always be broken down into tiny pieces. Some people say buildings are much more exquisite during construction, the visuals complexity of scaffolding have a large part in that, but it communicates more than beauty, it reveals the buildings secrets.     

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Windows by Tokyo Form

Each one is a view into a persons life

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The Greenhouses of Almeria via Amusing Planet

Since the 1980s, the small coastal plain, some 30 kilometers southwest of the city of Almeria, has developed the largest concentration of greenhouses in the world, covering 26,000 hectares. Several tons of greenhouse vegetables and fruits such as tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and zucchinis are produced here annually. More than half of the Europe’s demand for fresh fruits and vegetables are grown under the plastic shades, fuelling the province of Almeria’s economy by $1.5 billion in annual revenue.

But 35 years ago, this region in the southeast of Spain was dry and arid, and desert-like, receiving an average of 200 mm of rainfall a year. In fact, Spaghetti western films were once shot here, because the land was so dry and barren. But with imported soil and fully hydroponic systems that drip-feed chemical fertilizers into grow-bags, over the last 35 years, the area has been intensively used for agriculture.

SoP - Scale of Environments 

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The Aftermath of a Music Festival via Amusing Planet

The morning after the night the Reading Festival concluded, and the festival goers disseminated, photographer David White took off in a helicopter to capture the scene of the campsite. The 90,000 strong crowd that collected at the venue to enjoy the 3-day music festival had left behind a chaos of abandoned tents, beer cans, cigarette butts, half-eaten food, discarded packaging, grubby clothes, sleeping bags and a sea of plastic.

SoP - Scale of Environments 

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Refugee Camps | Via

The landscape of displacement

SoP - Scale of Environments 

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CinicoTv, ma non in quel senso. 

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(vía Archivio Piero Bottoni)

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Spontaneous City in the Tree of Heaven by London Fieldworks

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Torre David, a 45-story office tower in Caracas designed by the distinguished Venezuelan architect Enrique Gómez, was almost complete when it was abandoned following the death of its developer, David Brillembourg, in 1993 and the collapse of the Venezuelan economy in 1994. @afasiaarq.blogspot.com

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Torre David in Caracas, Venezuela

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Enrique Gómez and Associates, Torre David / Centro Financiero Confianzas, Caracas, Venezuela, 1990-4 (via baan)

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