Val Bavona
The International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens 2006
edited by Domenico Luciani with Patrizia Boschiero
Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche
Treviso 2006
80 pages
58 illustrations in colour and 29 black and white
Italian edition
out of print
Val Bavona, a short, rugged valley high in the mountains of Canton Ticino, Switzerland, an “awesomely beautiful” place, gouged by the glacier, shaped by water and stone, in which a community (about a thousand people) has come to terms with the power and harshness of nature and over time has developed the ideas, the attitudes, the actions and the artefacts of human life when pushed to its limits.
As well as the astonishing natural, historical and ethno-anthropological significance of the area, the reasons that make Val Bavona worthy of special attention and that most profoundly influenced the decision of the jury lie in the all-important presence of a community with a rare degree of awareness of the uniqueness of its position and a perception of that difference not as a shameful legacy of ancient misery but rather as something of real value, a privilege, to be appreciated and passed on to future generations.
In depth
Contents
Le precedenti edizioni del Premio, 4
Regolamento e giuria, 5
Motivazione della giuria, 7
Documentazione cartografica, 10
Cenni geografici e morfologici, Luigi Martini, 14
Una passeggiata nel fondovalle, Federico Balli, 21
Storia, regole, parole degli alpi, Luigi Martini, 34
Vita e abbandono degli alpi, Plinio Martini, 42
Vivere tra le pietre, Bruno Donati, 48
L’incredibile durata, Tita Carloni, 50
Uomo, roccia, abitare umano, Francesco Fedele, 51
Organismi, strumenti, norme per il governo della Val Bavona, 56
Il Piano regolatore di salvaguardia, Luigi Martini, 56
Definizioni e contenuti del Piano, 58
Esempi di norme del Piano, 60
Manuale per la riattazione degi edifici, 62
La Fondazione Valle Bavona, Renato Lampert, 64
Una valle come museo, dunque? No di certo, Michele Fazioli, 66
Bibliografia, 68
Glossario, 70
The International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens. Regulations, 71
Jury’s Report, 72
Begründung der Jury, 73
Rapport du Jury, 75
Referenze iconografiche, 77
