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.…
Dwelling – space: a look to the future
As a place of expression of the individual’s freedom and a safe shelter from affairs of the world, the house, in a period of great uncertainty such as that dictated…
How will we leave together?
Architecture, in its strict sense, is no more dealing solely with Human beings, maybe it was never only about the Human, but our Anthropocentric gaze made us think so. Its…
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.…
Living naturally
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…