semiseria REFLECTIONS OF A NATIONAL ITALIAN (SICILIAN) ARCHITECT EVEN BIOARCHITETTO
I say that we should expel all that elite of engineers, architects and surveyors who designed the buildings, such as tissue paper afflosciatisi , under the pressure of the earthquake. I say this as an architect and now I'm ashamed of it, especially in Italy. I've seen how you work out of this nation false! Yes, but they have designed the management work was when they erected the builders and developers speculating on materials? Perhaps to suck up to some political or administrative office to beg for another design? When we design and then built a complex (especially) must remain on site to monitor the work of the rest of the bill we are paying for and supervision of construction is paid more than all well and handsomely. Not absolve anyone, everyone is guilty for what happened, even we who bow to the filth of politics and the laxity of the institutions. These deaths must bring them to us all on his conscience. Rebuild? But what does this mean? We should start from scratch making an examination of conscience. I can say without false modesty when I was a freelance site that I was more comfortable in my studio. Designed with my colleagues, architects responsible for the profession, the night when everything was quiet and thoughts are transformed into something achievable that respects the environment and man. What in Italy has never done. It cemented the rivers, thanks to very good water engineers we have in Italy - it's like taking a ball and throwing it on a marble floor, imagine how it behaves, you do business with the cement materials ensure that spurious and often not suitable for achieving a real mortar that can stand the test of time without compromising the other materials, such as iron which is easily oxidized material along with a bastard, so the structures collapse, ladies and gentlemen, manufacturers save using sea sand and not rock - it's too easy to load trucks on the beaches that paying a load of a stone quarry, too expensive for their dirty profits that will share with administrators and politicians who have won the race d 'contract - There are no controls on construction sites - the designer and also Director of the works have a duty to monitor all the material arrives on site and also that they meet the safety standards at work - it's too humiliating for us professionals? But who we believe to be the gentlemen or the artists of the buildings? We have to have their hands in cement and lime when we want is that what we have planned, dear colleagues snooty you're sitting in the sofa most of the political and somebody 'else - The ancient architects (engineers and luckily there were no structures are still there to be admired and they are still unknown to the architect who built it, just because it was more to the community that the fame and the Italians had the courage to call him the Gothic style, for contempt against traditional unrealized by the barbarians) were the masters and not the young lady that were reflected in their hedonism. I could go on but it would be too boring. However, with the way we act we have created fake buildings that stand as a miracle. But worse, we have disturbed the nature, we removed the blood (oil) and not what we used to regenerate without causing other damage (renewable energy) and that the good Lord gave us to use them and protect us. But these are not subject to power, then attacks the kind that naturally rebels. I always refer to the rivers that for centuries have their natural bed, and that we have made it uninhabitable for a normal course of water that can overflow more easily on a bed of concrete, let alone waterways prtata most important, dear civil and hydraulic engineers, who feel dominated and God on Earth. Stick to the Earth is our home and share it with all that surrounds us. We are not the masters World, indeed, considering the acts are the last species of this planet. We continue to talk about nuclear power plants and incinerators. It is not clear that it is all speculation of the Italian capitalist power? In a land subject to constant movements of the earth politics, pushed by speculative capital, think of nuclear energy and to burn the waste. So not only earthquakes but also to die of diseases, buy.
Then cry about that even if disaster should be prevented announced also by the great scientists who have, in Italy. Think twice before fatten his pockets, then if they get fat. Then you think of that would work Pharaonic more harm than good: the bridge over the Strait. A monumental work that does not help anyone if you do not first improve lines of communication and connection of the South Italy, especially Calabria and Sicily. We produce a mega of 3500 meters, the world's longest single-span, in an area without decent infrastructure. That all good designers to politicians and those who take to brainwash every single day. I no longer believe those who mourn our dead. I do not believe they are crocodile tears, to put it clean.
keep getting more and more convinced that Italy is a sham nation, a nation of plastic, even a nation with a wonderful facade but inside does not have facilities that can keep up. However, hano the now ruined the facade, it lost the eyes of the world. What a shame!
last thing I think is important: for tomorrow we had to stop every type of entertainment, including sporting events. I refer in particular to the Italian football league. You had to play on Wednesday and still could donate the proceeds to the brothers of Abruzzo. But we know that the power dominates also on duty (at least) silence for the victims of the earthquake and the Abruzzi. The power must continue to do his cynical and disrespectful way, or else as the capitalists will fatten the pockets? Even broadcasters should devote the proceeds to pay tomorrow for the earthquake victims. For this, I'll look tomorrow The part of my Palermo.
Forgive me for this but I think so.
Gaetano Similar MacColl
