Research
Area 127 / Identity of the landscape
Identity of the landscape: less aestethic more ethics Among the many Venice Biennials that have been held there are two, more than twenty years apart, whose messages, expressed in a nutshell by their titles, leap into mind whenever one finds oneself dealing with an urban theme or working with a consolidated context. I am referring to ...
Area 126 / Hamburg
Hamburg, reflections of water and architecture In Hamburg a red – brick red – thread connects the spectacular and famous Elbphilarmonie building designed by Herzog & de Meuron, still in construction, with the expressive contours of Fritz Höger’s Chilehaus. But it would be a bad mistake to limit the affinities between these extraordinary icons to ...
Marco Casamonti at Arq.Futuro
Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 7 November 2012 Architect Marco Casamonti featured as one of the lecturers at the fourth edition of the international architecture forum Arq.Futuro, hosted in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte on the 6th and 7th November 2012. The event, which was first held in 2011 and has since been repeated every six months in ...
Area 125 / Cino Zucchi
Cino Zucchi: from the MIT to the Polytechnic and back To suggest a critical reading of an architect and a work that is so close both on a personal level and on a professional one may entail the risk of a non-objective vision, blurred by the fact that a clear focus, which usually requires a certain ...
Materia 74 / Fashion Architecture
Motta Architettura – quarterly magazine - june 2012 Download: Contents Download: David Chipperfield Architects Valentino Flagship Milano, by Laura Andreini Download: Genius Loci Architettura Gucci Headquarters, by Valentina Muscedra Download: Tadao Ando Architect & Associates Duvetica Milano Shop, by Silvia Fabi Download: RDAI Hermès 17 rue de Sèvres, Paris, by Sara Benzi Download: Universal Design Studio H&M ...
Sticciano 2012
The round table “Architecture and ceramics” which was held on 29 September 2012, within the context of the event Sticciano 2012 – The fire continues, vaunted architect Giovanni Polazzi as one of the participants. The event, held in the Medicean estate of Sticciano under the aegis of the Municipality of Certaldo, centred on the theme ...
Area 124 / New geometries
New geometries The heroic age of experiments on complex spaces and forms has worn itself out in the efforts of those who, convinced of the necessity of that research, made themselves and their assistants observe catenaries of threads hung from the ceiling through a mirror or with their head upside down in order to then ...
Area 123 / On the water
eyes which do not see… liners “If we forget for a moment that a steamship is a machine for transport and look at it with a fresh eye, we shall feel that we are facing an important manifestation of temerity, of discipline, of harmony, of a beauty that is calm, vital and strong. A seriously-minded ...
Italian pavilion – Rio+20
On the occasion of the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro from 13 to 22 June, Archea Brazil has designed the Italian pavilion; it was entrusted with the assignment by the Forum das Américas acting on behalf of the Italian Ministry of the Environment and the Protection of the Territory and the ...
Area 122 / Sustainable way
Sustainable way There are terms that simply define objects or situations, others that merely describe characteristics by turning them into adjectives, and some – and this is by now universally recognized for the term “sustainability” – that are capable of revealing ample and profound scenarios, that are indispensable for the quality of life, for its ...
Materia 73 / Nature and Artifice
Motta Architettura – quarterly magazine - march 2012 Download: Contents Download: Kengo Kuma & Associates Yusuhara Marche, by Laura Andreini Download: Studio A.S. Architetti Associati Multifunctional centre for the Infancy, by Patrizia Valandro Download: CNLL – Atelier Nuno Lacerda Lopes Mouriz School Center, by Caroline Fuchs
Area 121+ / design on/off
Transformable objects: design in motion This issue of Area titled ‘Ouverture 2012 -design on/ off’ is the testimoniai of a long research proiect which is a Iso the subject of the homonymous exhibition organized in Milan on the occasion of the Furniture Salon, al the Spazio Emporio in via Tortona 31 , a nerve centre ...
