Robin Monotti Graziadei talked about Malaparte and Nature at the GREENwich FORUM 3pm, Friday 21st January at Room QA080, Queen Anne’s Court, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London SE10. More details about the talk below:
Unbridled Nature in the Imagination of Malaparte;
Towards a Metaphysics of Green Architecture
“The flaw in most green architects work today is an obsession with technological solutions, at the expense of a more flexible mode of environmental thinking. This imperious, greener-than-thou mentality is not consistent with natural phenomena, where nothing is absolute; rather, everything is mutable, evolutionary and mostly beyond control. Malaparte must have appreciated these metaphoric and unbridled forces of nature, saw them mirrored in his own personality and decided to build a symbolic embodiment of indeterminacy and chance on the Punta Massullo” James Wines
Robin Monotti will read extracts from his translation of Malaparte’s book “Donna Come Me“, written at the same time of the building of the Casa Malaparte, in order to attempt to create a better understanding of the house through the imagination of nature in the mind of its author. With reference to the house and writings of Malaparte, Robin Monotti will argue that most so called green architects attempt to create architecture from without through quantitative box-ticking exercises, whereas it is only through the imagination, or a personal relationship to nature from within, that a convincing green architecture can be achieved.
To buy the book on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Woman-Like-Troubador-Italian-Studies/