Identity and urban contexts
The cities: reading and re-reading them, thinking about them, looking at them during their transformations, trying to understand how resilient they can be. Cities are constantly in the scientific and…
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…
Novecentopiùcento: International Design Competition for the conversion of the second Arengario into a museum building
In 2020, in order to expand the current Museo del Novecento, the “Novecentopiùcento” competition was announced by the Municipality of Milan, aimed at defining the design proposals for an aerial…
Resiliency: interview with Piero Pelizzaro
Piero Pelizzaro has 10 years of experience in climate change policies and urban resilience planning. Currently he is the Milan Chief Resilience Officer and the City Lead for the H2020…
Look to the future with the science navigator: interview with Luca Mercalli
Climate change, migrations, architecture, and energy issues. How is the world changing? Considering the recent events, it is inevitable to wonder which will be the future of the planet and…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…