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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…