Publication

Allegorie der alpinen Zivilisation

2025

Abstract

Collective exposition "I LOVE CHALETS" curated by Nicole McIntosh and Jonathan Louie at Zentrum Architektur Zürich Museum BELLERIVE from 18.01.2025 to 18.05.2025 Twenty-four panels composed by Nicola Braghieri make up a polyptych celebrating the Alpine culture through the different seasons of its civilisation. The polyptych is to be read as a panoramic cycle in which the elements of nature and the works of humans stage a drama in three acts: conquest, resistance and abandonment. The fourth act, recolonisation, is not represented and left to the viewer’s imagination. This Capriccio Alpino expresses and syncretizes in a picturesque manner, the multifaceted character of the Alpine imaginary. Actors in this representation are naturally the mountains, forests, meadows, railways, hydroelectric infrastructures and, of course, human constructions. Among the latter hides the silent, ubiquitous and ever-beloved, Alpine house, tenderly known as the "chalet".

Official source

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/35f2e8c5-946b-42a0-ade1-f2fe2ffacfd0

About this result

This page is automatically generated and may contain information that is not correct, complete, up-to-date, or relevant to your search query. The same applies to every other page on this website. Please make sure to verify the information with EPFL's official sources.

Graph Chat

Chat with Graph Search

Ask any question about EPFL courses, lectures, exercises, research, news, etc. or try the example questions below.

DISCLAIMER: The Graph Chatbot is not programmed to provide explicit or categorical answers to your questions. Rather, it transforms your questions into API requests that are distributed across the various IT services officially administered by EPFL. Its purpose is solely to collect and recommend relevant references to content that you can explore to help you answer your questions.

2025

Abstract

Official source

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/35f2e8c5-946b-42a0-ade1-f2fe2ffacfd0

About this result

Related concepts (32)

Representation theory

Representation theory is a branch of mathematics that studies abstract algebraic structures by representing their elements as linear transformations of vector spaces, and studies modules over these abstract algebraic structures. In essence, a representation makes an abstract algebraic object more concrete by describing its elements by matrices and their algebraic operations (for example, matrix addition, matrix multiplication).

Group representation

In the mathematical field of representation theory, group representations describe abstract groups in terms of bijective linear transformations of a vector space to itself (i.e. vector space automorphisms); in particular, they can be used to represent group elements as invertible matrices so that the group operation can be represented by matrix multiplication. In chemistry, a group representation can relate mathematical group elements to symmetric rotations and reflections of molecules.

Social constructionism

In the fields of sociology, social ontology, and communication theory, social constructionism is a framework that proposes that certain ideas about physical reality arise from collaborative consensus, instead of the pure observation of said physical reality. The theory of social constructionism proposes that people collectively develop the meanings (denotations and connotations) of social constructs.

Related publications (3)

Allegorie der alpinen Zivilisation

Chat with Graph Search

The Squares of Montchoisy. Notes for a History of the Open Form in Geneva

The need for coherence between institutions and technology in liberalized infrastructures: the case of network unbundling in electricity and railways

Omnidirectional views selection for scene representation