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TAB Epson per l’Architettura

Epson sceglie Facebook per parlare con gli Architetti Le nuove tecnologie, i trend del futuro, le risposte alle domande dei professionisti. Epson realizza una TAB sul proprio profilo Facebook per dialogare con gli architetti. Cinisello Balsamo (MI) – 10 maggio 2012. Sulla pagina Facebook di Epson Italia è nata la nuova TAB “Epson per l’Architettura”...
SICILY LIVING FORCES WORKSHOP

SICILY LIVING FORCES WORKSHOP

REGISTER ON LINE        DOWNLOAD THE BRIEF (pdf) DATE // From 26th to 30th of June 2012 LOCATION // FARM CULTURAL CULTURAL PARK in Favara (AG) ACCOMODATION // B&B INSTRUCTION // LaN + SOLIDO 360 prototyping ORGANIZATION // CITYVISION + FARM

Living Layers III – Valentina Vannicola | Wunderkammern

Title: Living Layers III artist: Valentina Vannicola curated by: Wunderkammern location: Wunderkammern
My Masochism

My Masochism

May 18-19-20, 2012  MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma | Boffi-Barberini | Circolo degli Artisti FREE ENTRANCE My Masochism is the new title chosen for the new and intriguing event that the creative Roman team of Cityvision will presents next May 19th, 2012 at 4pm at the MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome,...

THE “RIGHT” HAND OF THE POWER

text by Maria Azzurra Rossi

SIMONE DE IACOBIS | Miracle at the Vistula

SCAR TISSUE | Come and dance in Tor Pignattara

text by Vincenzo Pizzuto e S.V.

EPSON 20|20 VISION THINK TANK ON ARCHITECTURE

LEADING EUROPEAN ARCHITECTS IDENTIFY KEY INGREDIENTS FOR SUCCESS.

BALL + NOGUES | What is decadence for you? The American political process…

An interview with brothers Benjamin Ball by  Ilja Burchard.

MORPHOLOGIC ARCHITECTURE

An interview with Nicola Formichetti and Asher Levine by  Alessandro Orsini.

COMPUTATIONAL LITERACY

text by Davide Del Giudice

LEONG LEONG

An interview with brothers Chris and Dominic Leong by Catherine Iftode.

THE CHRONICLES OF SQUINT/OPERA

A CONVERSATION WITH JULES COKE written by Federico Giacomarra and Fabrizio Bellabio.

PLASTIQUE FANTASTIQUE

an interview with Marco Canevacci (Plastique Fantastique‘s founder) by Vanessa Todaro

MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY HISTORY

interview with Valerio Mastandrea by Boris Prosperini.

RAIDS

text by Cetta Brancato, photography by Olivo Barbieri.

RE-EVOL-UTION

Out of town. text by Rocco Salomone.

METROPOLITAN CONSTRUCTION SITE

text by Luigi Greco.

CARLOS AMORALES

Liquid Images. text by Luna Todaro

STRAIGHT TO HELL

text by Marta Benvenuto, illustration by Freddy Ventriglia 

DAYTROTTER FREAKSHOW

Tears and candles from behind the curtain. text by Weekend in a Morning | excerpt from “The Weekend Cookbook”

MARK JENKINS – LIVING LAYERS @ WUNDERKAMMERN GALLERY – ROME

March 17th, 2012 – Wunderkammern presents the first solo show of the famous American urban street artist Mark Jenkins with its project Living Layers in cooperation with MACRO (Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma). CityVision is media partner of the event.

IRRATIONALITY AND/IS REALITY

The Garbatella railbridge: an ironic look at the future of Rome. text by Sebastian Di Guardo
New York CityVision Competition Launch!

New York CityVision Competition Launch!

CityVision magazine is pleased to share with you the new architecture competition: New York Cityvision.  New York CityVision is the fourth international ideas competition launched by CityVision.
PFFF – Inflatable Architecture Competition Winners

PFFF – Inflatable Architecture Competition Winners

We are pleased to announce the winners of the PFFF – Inflatable Architecture Competition. PFFF – Inflatable Architecture Competition had 60 registered groups (276 participants) and received 48 proposals from all five continents.
PAST SHOCK

PAST SHOCK

Past Shock is the latest editorial project wirtten by Francesco Lipari and presented on February, for the first time, at the MACRO Museum in Rome during the event IHSTF organized by the creative roman group of Cityvision. It’s an article and it started as an introduction to the brief of New York Cityvision Competition with...
CITYVISION MAGAZINE ISSUE #5 - RELEASE

CITYVISION MAGAZINE ISSUE #5 – RELEASE

CityVision magazine is pleased to share with you the Issue #5. Out now! The magazine introduces new special projects, interviews, columns and photoissue collected during last four months.
I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE - REPORT

I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE – REPORT

Rome, February 18, 2012 – Digital postcards from the future: the power of images to describe the upcoming architecture and urban scenarios. I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE was that: an event by the Roman group of CityVision held on February 17, 2012 at MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome.
I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE - MACRO Museum February 17th, 2012

I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE – MACRO Museum February 17th, 2012

I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE – MACRO Museum Friday 17th February, 2012 Special Guest: JULES COKE (Squint/Opera) www.ihaveseenthefxxxxx.tumblr.com   Digital postcards from the future: the power of images to describe the upcoming architecture and urban scenarios.
Cityvision Mag - Issue 5

Cityvision Mag – Issue 5

COVER IMAGE by Squint/Opera BUY IT index 14 WAVING Vanessa Todaro 16 PAPER BASTARDS Emmanuele Jonathan Pilia 18 PAST SHOCK Francesco Lipari 32 NEW YORK CITYVISION COMPETITION 36 IRRATIONALITY AND/IS REALITY Sebastian Di Guardo 38 STRAIGHT TO HELL Marta Benvenuto & Freddy Ventriglia 40 DAYTROTTER FREAKSHOW Weekend in a Morning 42 CARLOS AMORALES Luna Todaro 44...

FEBRUARY 17th, 2012 / I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE / CITYVISION @ MACRO – ROME

Friday February 17th, 2012, time 6,30 p.m. at MACRO Museum, via Nizza 138, in Rome.

IL FUOCO DELLA NATURA/THE FLASH OF NATURE

In Trieste is opening an exhibition entirely dedicated to Nature, it sees artists and architects, from all over the world, portraying they’re images of what surround us.

OVOQUADRO – GUMDESIGN

Born in 2005, the event created by Gumdesign involving Telefono Azzurro in the organization and purposes; an annual event/exhibition to collaborate closely with the association that defends children’s rights.

PAPPANATALE W/CITYVISION MAGAZINE – DOPPIA PALMA – PIG

Friday 23rd December 2011, Christmas is almost arrived and CityVision will party with Doppia Palma/K Party and PIG magazine at PAPPANATALE.

LOOSE HABIT + CITYVISION presents TROPICS (live) @ LANIFICIO 159, ROME

This Friday, December 2nd – Loose Habit in collaboration with CityVision presents Tropics live band at the Lanificio 159, via di Pietralata 159, Rome – opening with aperitif at 9.00p.m. till late night.

UPPER TOWN – VENICE CITYVISION COMPETITION – SPECIAL MENTION

V. ANDJELKOVIC – D. ADZEMOVIC ANDJELKOVIC – A. BOGOJEVIC – R. PAVLOVIC

RE-CYCLING VENICE – VENICE CITYVISION COMPETITION – SPECIAL MENTION

P. J. MUÑOZ RODRIGUEZ

MEDUSAS – VENICE CITYVISION COMPETITION – SPECIAL MENTION

G. CUCUT – A. MERCI

24 HOURS VENICE – VENICE CITYVISION COMPETITION – SPECIAL MENTION

S. WITTMEYER – N. GREENBERG

THE HISTORICAL VALUE OF VENICE – VENICE CITYVISION COMPETITION – SPECIAL MENTION

C. MILLER

VENICE OR DISNEYLAND? – VENICE CITYVISION COMPETITION – SPECIAL MENTION

M. ARTICO – M. BITTOLO – S. FRACASSI – M. TREVISAN

SUB-VENICE – VENICE CITYVISION COMPETITION – SPECIAL MENTION

J. COMBES – G. BRULÉ – ATELIER CMJN

VENICE FOR RENT – VENICE CITYVISION COMPETITION – SPECIAL MENTION

R. RONCORONI

CORAL RINGS – VENICE CITYVISION COMPETITION – SPECIAL MENTION

AU MAN YING – NG KEI YIU – OR MAN PIU – OU YANG HAU YEE

SUSTAINABLE SHOCK – VENICE CITYVISION COMPETITION – SPECIAL MENTION

M. FRATE – G. DONA – M. POLLANI – F. BERGIANTI L. STERNINI – S. VISENTIN

PHILIPPE DAVERIO – MA CHE DAVERIO?!

It’s July 28th 2011, second to last day at work in the staff of CityVision and we will finally interview Professor Philippe Daverio. Quick briefing with Francesco, Vanessa and Azzurra and we are ready to begin.

AO’ #4

C_ARTU’ – MATHERY

Two layers of sepia corrugated cardboard, 15 folds and 3 glue points together add up to 600 grams of a load-bearing structure.

KIM HØLTERMAND

Kim Høltermand is a freelance architectural and landscape photographer from Denmark. The building, the matter, its concreteness are visible elements that can be read by everyone; the sublime is linked to details, views, perspectives and angles hidden behind a light poetic veil that Kim Høltermand can lift, bringing us to a retrò and nordic dimension,...

HYDRODYNAMIC – VENICE CITYVISION COMPETITION – SPECIAL MENTION

A. FARZANEH – M. A. LLAGUNO MUNITXA – K. HOTTA

IS EMOTION CREATIVE? – SATOSHI OKADA

The intensity of a piece of work, states A.K.Coomaraswamy in one of his many essays about symbolism and art, quoting Thomas Aquinas, substantially relies on what the christian philosopher used to define as “adaequatio rei et intellectus”, that is, the perfect correspondence between knowledge and the object of that knowledge. This archaic dictum crosses my...

ARCHIPORN

Being a famous porn actor, I’m definitely the most qualified person to write this article. I’m an actor, in the sense that I work in one of the most pornographic cities in the world. I’m famous, because I believe I’m the most fashionable architect in the slums of Shanghai.

ASYLUM – VENICE CITYVISION COMPETITION – FARM PRIZE

P. MATUSEK / A. BARTKOWSKA / M. EJSZTET / M. KULESZA / T. TYMINSKI / E. ZWIERZCHOESKA / J. SZEWCZYK

THOMAS HILLIER – THE ARCHITECT OF ATMOSPHERE

Make yourself comfortable if you’re not.Crop a five-minute break; if you are at work, university or on the street,on a bed of asphalt, making large puffs of heat.In the last case perhaps it’s better for you to get in the shade before you continue reading…

A BEWITCHING WOMAN

Is it possible that the world is not large and varied enough to satisfy certain people’s curiosities and thirst for new and different species, categories, colors and nations? And why do strange Venetian figures roam the world, speaking in Neapolitan, when they are clearly American citizens?

COATED VOLUMES – VENICE CITYVISION COMPETITION – SECOND PRIZE

O. DI MANNO – L. CATENA – F. CUSANI – F. GRAVIGLIA

IRENE SHAMMA – SELF ORGANIZED SYSTEM

Davide Del Giudice: How was your background before working at Amanda Levete Architects? Could you tell us about your experience at the DRL? Irene Shamma: Before coming to London, I achieved my diploma in architecture in 2007 at the Polytechnic School of Thessaloniki in Greece. As I realised later on, the Greek educational system differs...

BAROZZI VEIGA ESTUDIO

It is a sunny vernal Wednesday when we land at the international airport El Prat. In Barcelona it already seems midsummer. You can see open fans and tourists wearing Bermuda shorts. In short time we find ourselves from the chaos of Rome to the warm calm of the Eixample, in the modern centre of the...

ROOMS – VENICE CITYVISION COMPETITION – FIRST PRIZE

A. BOTTERO – S. DELLA ROCCA – V. BRUNI

SADAR+VUGA

An interview with Bostjan Vuga.