Design and gender identity
The world that surrounds us plays a key role in our development as individuals. Objects, spaces, images shape our conscience and opinions. Design often finds itself being the main character…
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…
In the beginning was. Sustainable visions and the past’s infraction
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…
Biodesign. Designing according to nature to save the planet
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…
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…
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…
Active Integration
Do you know the phrases addressed to anyone with a minimum of common sense, which in a defiant tone are being thrown up on the social networks or, even more…
Beyond the frontier architecture
"There are still many battles to be won and many frontiers that still need to be expanded in order to improve the quality of the built environment and, consequently, the…
Harraga: traveling by burning the borders
In an era in which the issue of immigration is a constant in the national and international debate, Giulio Piscitelli, a young Italian photojournalist, wanted to give the world his…
Being a Lebanese in Europe
Borders. They are meant to protect any community. A tool necessary for the stability and security to be established in any given country. A deterrent for any individual who wants…
Maidan tent: a square for everyone
"Taking action through architecture" is the motto of the young Milanese studio ABVM, founded by the architect Bonaventura Visconti di Modrone, who since May last year has installed a covered…
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…
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,…
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…