Identity and urban contexts
The cities: reading and re-reading them, thinking about them, looking at them during their transformations, trying to understand how resilient they can be. Cities are constantly in the scientific and…
Novecentopiùcento: International Design Competition for the conversion of the second Arengario into a museum building
In 2020, in order to expand the current Museo del Novecento, the “Novecentopiùcento” competition was announced by the Municipality of Milan, aimed at defining the design proposals for an aerial…
The domestic landscape: interview with Nicola Lunardi
Nicola Lunardi, together with Veronica Rusca and Lorenzo Trompetto, is one of the partners of the Genoese studio gosplan. The practice believes in architecture as a tool of mass communication.…
Sustainability, form and power: interview with Giovanni Galli
Giovanni Galli is an architect that works as a professor at the Department of Architecture and Design (DAD) of the University of Genoa, where he teaches architectonical and urban composition.…
Eco: a turning point, brand or awareness?
For the Number 06 issue of AGORÀ magazine, it was decided to deal with a topic that I personally find difficult to argue: climate change related to Architectural discipline. A…
A look at the city: interview with Fabrizio Schiaffonati
Full Professor at the Polytechnic of Milan from 1980 to 2012, architect Fabrizio Schiaffonati held various institutional roles: director of departments, president of architecture degree courses, coordinator of research doctorates,…
Dens(C)ity Trend: interview with Nest Vandenken
Often the art and architecture Dutch scene gives to the world personalities capable to envision new perspectives and interpretations of the world we live. These characters can tell common issues…
Venustas, the research of form
“I apologize to the readers, and to all those who (maybe) will lose their time by reading the following short text. This essay doesn't want to be the truth, but…
Architecture and Time: interview with Marco Biraghi
Marco Biraghi is Professor; he teaches "History of Contemporary Architecture" at the School of Architecture and Society of the Polytechnic of Milan and "History of Contemporary Architecture and Design" at…
The culture of our time: interview with Vittorio Gregotti
If compared to the previous Century, nowadays the profession of the architect and the act of practicing architecture seem to be drastically different. Dynamics, values, commissions, the way of living…
Contemporary relative and architectural stasis
Today the architect's craft seems to have taken on a different connotation than that of a few decades ago. Theoretical research in architecture, although present, seems to be something separate…
Migration and Architecture: interview with Paolo Portoghesi
One of the most significant phenomena that is identifying this first part of the century, is certainly that of migration. The migratory phenomenon, a recurring condition in history, has seen…
The Great Mosque of Rome: analogous architecture
The Great Mosque of Rome by Paolo Portoghesi today is certainly the most important place of prayer for the Muslim population of the city of Rome. It is the seat…
Milan’s Railyards: interview with Lorenzo Degli Esposti
Lorenzo Degli Esposti was interviewed as part of a discussion between three architects on the theme of the Milan’s railway yards. Degli Esposti Architetti is a leading partnership in the…
Milan’s Railyards: interview with Giorgio Goggi
Giorgio Goggi was interviewed as part of a discussion between three architects on the theme of the Milan’s railway yards. Giorgio Goggi graduated in Architecture at the Polytechnic of Milano…
Milan’s Railyards: interview with Emilio Battisti
Emilio Battisti was interviewed as part of a discussion between three architects on the theme of the Milan’s railway yards. Former professor of Architectural Composition at the Polytechnic of Milan…
Milan’s Railyards: the discriminant between development and standardisation
Today Milan is experiencing a new phase of development which is leading to crucial transformations from an architectural and urban point of view. Within an extremely changing scenario, the succession…
Holy See Pavilion: contemporary Vatican
Now in its 16th year, the Venice Architecture Biennale boasts a new entry in the list of exhibition pavilions. The Vatican, which only in recent years has begun to attend…
Blueprint: interview with Franco Purini
Franco Purini was interviewed as part of a comparison between three architects who took part in the Blueprint competition, organized by the Municipality of Genoa. Franco Purini: architect and theorist…
Blueprint: interview with Daniele Zerbi
Daniele Zerbi from Fuzz Atelier was interviewed as part of a comparison between three architects who took part in the Blueprint competition, organized by the Genoa City Council. "Fuzz Atelier"…
Blueprint: interview with Paolo Brescia
In the context of a comparison between three architects who participated in the Blueprint competition, organized by the City of Genova, Paolo Brescia of OBR Studio was interviewed. Paolo Brescia…
Blueprint: unfinished Superb
Many are the ideas for the "Ex-Fiera del Mare" of Genoa, less the projects realized. Today this part of the city, which until a few decades ago was a source…
Paolo Zermani: warning on the idea of architecture
Today the figure of the architect lives a strange sort of bewilderment, where ethical and moral principles have been lost. The unanimous and disintegrated-repressed acceptance of any object passed off…
Fondazione Prada: the branded non-space
In the last decades Milan is living an exponential development that is bringing to a mutation of its skyline. Starting from the fast development of Porta Garibaldi up to the…