About me // About us
This article is not about Architecture, but about the Architect. The question of identity is addressed starting from a deep look at the “self”, necessarily personal, and then go beyond…
Sardinia: matter of identity
When we talk about “Identity” and decide to explore this term so completely, although not entering the deep and intricate dynamics that derive from this choice, each semantic aspect of…
Souvenir – Activable reminder
Perhaps the observation of things has remained my most important formal education; for observation later becomes transformed into memory. Now I seem to see all the things I have observed…
The climate is changing and so the communities: interview with Marìa del Carmen Mendoza Arroyo
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: an island of compromises
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…
SMART CITY – SMART BRAND: interview with Matteo Orlandi
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.…
Is virtual space the greatest architectural invention of the last century?
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…
The future of cities
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,…
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…
Partecipation 2.0
˂˂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…
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 capsule of Time: interview with Joseph Grima
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…
Architecture and Hope: interview with Luca Molinari
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…
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…
Lights and shadows of time: interview with Vincenzo Latina
Whenever I come across Vincenzo Latina, I notice silence. That precious and singular silence that identifies a man full of values. Simplicity, culture, depth, humility. These are those first values…
The problem of Style in our time: interview with Vincenzo Ariu
Style is not dead. It is simply an outdated concept. Nowadays, if many people worry about its loss, the reason is that the attempt to introduce the concept of method…
The Culture of our Time
Culture: from the latin language colĕre, literally «to cultivate». The total amount of intellectual knowledge that a person has acquired through study and experience, all re-examined with a deep and…
Peter Zumthor, of light and matter
The monograph, edited by VERLAG SCHEIDEGGER & SPIESS, is a complete compendium that goes through all the phases of evolution of Peter Zumthor, paying special attention to the projects that…
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…
StileLibero. A Revelation.
Stile (Style): it is configured as a bearer of precise qualities that have a specific meaning in themselves, capable of defining social, moral and economic values, becoming a sign of…
The integral mimetic fragmentation of Gerhard Richter
The grains of sand evaporate in the whirlwind of variation and the concatenations of matter melt as if touched by the rays of the sun. - In physics the second…
Contemporary architecture among research and self-celebration
"In architecture, Style plays a very peculiar role that it does not have in other arts. In the other arts the style simply depends on the artist, it’s something for…
Out of Time Architecture
STYLE << A particular way of literary expression, in so far as constant aspects are recognizable in it (in the way of addressing the subject, of expressing thought, in lexical,…
Temporary City: the ephemeral in the permanent
The architecture and the contemporary city are living an "eternal present", without innovations and substantial renewals, now enslaved by past beliefs that do not allow a real revolution. One of…
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 immigration economy: interview with Carlo Devillanova
Carlo Devillanova graduated in Economics and Social Sciences at Bocconi University, then obtained his Master's degree and completed his doctorate at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. After a period as…
Immigration policy: interview with Giampiero Cama
During the PhD, Giampiero Cama, dealt with the processes of primary democratization in Western Europe. In recent years he has developed his activity as Associate Professor of the Department of…
The inclusive city: interview with Massimo Colombo
Massimo Colombo, collaborator of the Fondazione Giovanni Michelucci and head of the Social Housing, Self-construction and Cohousing area of interest, deals with the issues of the variable city with particular…
Immigration and opportunities: interview with Andrea Anselmo
Andrea Anselmo grew up in the Ligurian province and began his promising career at the Polytechnic School of Genoa. Gradually he developed the will to know different realities from the…
From the Idea of migration to the Migration of ideas: interview with Luca Mazzari
Luca Mazzari was born in Genoa in 1961 where he graduated and founded, with Liliana Leone, the Archifax Architetti Associati studio. He designs buildings and home furnishings with Italian design…