Cusa quarries
The International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens 1999
edited by Domenico Luciani with Patrizia Boschiero and Luigi Latini
Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche
Treviso 1999
36 pages
22 illustrations in colour and 18 black and white
pubblicazione fuori commercio
out of print
The Jury of the International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens has unanimously decided to award the tenth Prize to the Cusa quarries, which for over twenty-four centuries, suspended in time, has preserved the materials and the skills that gave rise to the Temples of Selinunte.
It is a place where nature and history engage in intense dialogue. A gash twisting for two kilometres through the Sicilian countryside, south-west of Campobello di Mazara. This was where the blocks of calcarenite were cut from the rock face. Here they were bound to wheels with techniques that are still not thoroughly understood. And from here, semi-dressed, they were transported the thirteen kilometres to the site of the temples along a route that we still know only in part.
Contents
Motivazione della giuria
Contributi
Vincenzo Tusa, La pietra che vive
Annelise Peschlow-Bindokat, Le cave per i templi di Selinunte
Sebastiano Tusa, Le cave di Cusa nella memoria recente
Da Cusa a Selinunte: la questione del trasporto dei materiali (scheda di Giorgio Gullini)
Latomie, pietre: l’ambiente geologico (scheda di Marcello Carapezza, Rosario Alaimo, Salvatore Calderone, Marco Leone)
Cave di Cusa: tre “viaggi” (proposti da Alvaro Siza Vieira con Roberto Collovà; nuno Lopez, Eduardo Souto de Moura)
Massimo Venturi Ferriolo, Un luogo di lettura del mondo
Bibliografia
