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.…
Climate change, migrations, architecture, and energy issues. How is the world changing? Considering the recent events, it is inevitable to wonder which will be the future of the planet and…
The climate is changing and the whole world with it. But what effects will this have on the most fragile communities? We asked it to Marìa del Carmen Mendoza Arroyo,…
Sardinia: a land of experimentation, uncertain balances and hopeful solutions. The 2020s opened with a general context of climate and environmental crisis, but not only. If you look exclusively at…
Zygmunt Bauman, a Polish sociologist and philosopher who died in 2017, starting from the late 90s defined the current society as "Liquid Modernity"¹. The paradigm focused on the absence of…
Over the last year I travelled across the world to see how architects and engineers from different countries are solving the climate crisis we are currently experience. I was shocked,…
Limiting wastage, reducing consumption and a reasoning resource use are the cornerstones of an economic development model of our days that lead us to the only possible future: the one…
“My firm was involved in waste. We were waste handlers, waste traders, cosmologists of waste. […] Waste is a religious thing. We entomb contaminated waste with a sense of reverence…
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…
2009 is the year of The Waterpod Project¹, the year in which Mary Mattingly², thanks to an enormous amount of courage, gave us a concrete example of what it means…
One of the most important student’s challenges, and in general of any individual who finds himself facing professional experience with greater or lesser ambition, is the one concerned developing competent…
It has been long, since people started talking about sustainability, intended as changing our habits, how we eat, how we travel, or which products we buy. However, that of modifying…
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,…
Michele Bonino was born in Turin in 1974. After completing his studies in his hometown, he moves to Barcelona. Despite he's continuing to travel, he keeps on using Italy as…
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…
Carlo Ratti graduated from the Polytechnic of Turin and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris. Subsequently, he obtained his Masters in Philosophy and PhD in architecture from…
It is clear that the socio-economic system in which we live is showing us its inadequacy for the global battles, as it is equally clear that the current ruling class…
Matteo Orlandi, born in Genoa in 1977. He completes his architecture training between Genoa and Vienna where he begins his apprenticeship in various studies following projects in Europe and Africa.…
“In the center of Fedora, that gray stone metropolis, stands a metal building with a crystal globe in every room. Looking into each globe, you see a blue city, the…
Let's consider two types of space: the physical one and the virtual one. The first one is well-known, well-studied and used by us on a daily basis, while the second…
Cities are what makes our world run the way it does. They are incubators for new thoughts, ideologies, innovations, etc. In a simple analogy, if the world is a car,…
“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…
A Smart City is a place where the networks and traditional services are made more efficient with the use of digital and telecommunication technologies, which its residents and activities benefit…
City-Society dualism is generally considered one of the most essential and unbreakable bonds of our life. Under a purely pragmatic point of view this need continues to exist, but perhaps…
In these last years, many architectural theories and urbanistic studies focused on the concept of “Smart city”. But before analyzing that and its historical and contextual declinations, I think that…
In this new era intelligence, necessity and efficiency are the ingredients for the recipe of happiness. Stephanie Rothenberg discloses a utopian illusion and proposes a new system for prosperity and…
˂˂It sounds absolutely logical to think that if the same person plays both roles – the inhabitant and the builder –, no problem would need to be solved. Unfortunately, today’s…
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…
Joseph Grima (1977) is an architect, curator and essayist.Since 2017 he is Creative Director of the Eindhoven Design Academy.In 2014 he was appointed Artistic Director of Matera European Capital of…
Accompanied by thirty years of experience in the academic, curatorial, editorial and research fields, in 2015 Luca Molinari founded his independent office supported by a team of professionals coming from…