Every place has an identity, with people
The pandemic outbreak which has been shaping our lives for over a year has greatly reduced the use of the spaces we enjoy and live in, including homes and the…
Visual identity and real estate in brazilian favelas
Over the years, the informal city in Brazil has developed its own visual identity, reinforced by its popularity in the film industry and the commercial success of funk music. But…
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,…
New towns: interview with Michele Bonino
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…
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…
Senseable City: interview with Carlo Ratti
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…
Open, inclusive and green cities: interview with Teo Comet
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…
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.…
The CITY of the future, the FUTURE of the city
“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…
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,…
About the Smart City
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…
Considerations on a “smart” community
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…
Smart and historical City
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…
The parable of the thirsty vegetable
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Morandi Bridge: a broken city
Much has already been written about the collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa, the management of the situation by the Administration, the responsibilities and the culprits, the plans and…
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…
A choice for Milan: Railway Yards and transformation of the city
A simple premise for a decidedly more complex goal: to make Milan attractive again, not only for future investors, but for new citizens, ready to live in a city suited…
Former Psychiatric Hospital of Genoa: Active Regeneration
Asylums are conceived between the 19th and 20th centuries as a result of psychiatric research. They are the evolution of the so-called sanatorium, that is the structure in which social…
The Urban Void in Generation Z
As history progresses, the cultural identities available to human beings have multiplied, changed, acquired strength and awareness, increased their capacity for expression and have been contaminated by new factors: gender,…