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.
DAYTROTTER FREAKSHOW
Tears and candles from behind the curtain. text by Weekend in a Morning | excerpt from “The Weekend Cookbook”
IRRATIONALITY AND/IS REALITY
The Garbatella railbridge: an ironic look at the future of Rome. text by Sebastian Di Guardo
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,...
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.
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?
FORM FINDING STRUCTURE INTUITION
One of the various strands of research of ZHA|CODE – Design of Shell structures – places itself within the argument for parametric design research to focus on methods that enable an operative pathway from intent to manifestation. The aim is to use physically-based parameters as effective constraints in design development. Integral belief to this is...
ALBERT ROBIDA
Visions of the future at the dawn of what is today considered as technological age bring to mind Jules Verne, author of popular adventure novels such as A Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days. Less well known – but even more...
THE TREE SAP, THE DIVERS AND THE SILENCE
(…) Andrea, my brother…the vodka sour starts to take its effect as the ice cubes slowly melt…I left the Ramones disks in Italy and they would sound so good in this Viennese house called ‘Vegas’ where summer is a rainbow photographed from the window with a battered webcam…
FAVELA ON BLAST – HAAS & HAHN
Rio De Janeiro is a city undergoing great transformations. This growth is most visible to those who visit her for an extended period of time, and to those who live at the bottom of the morros, but less obvious to those who choose to look at the houses perched on top of steep slopes.
INSIDE THE SHOW
Italian scenography evolution from the 60’s till today: from black and white to design “product placement”. text by Francesca Romana Moretti
ASCANIO CELESTINI – CONDOMINIO DI SANTI
an interview to Ascanio Celestino. text by Boris Prosperini
ARCHICOUTURE
text by Maria Azzurra Rossi The first crucial step in approaching two seemingly unrelated professions such as architecture and fashion is to understand that the basis of the works of both types of designers is the general concept of creation and the production of a craft.
INTERIOR TV
text by Francesca Romana Moretti In an unusual experiment, we can look at TV series as “archives” of the era in which they were produced. Every show tells a story in its own way about the world, the people and the habits of a particular time. They can help us understand how people lived, what their houses were like, and through...
CHROMA.TEX ME – SOFTLAB
text by Maria Azzurra Rossi Have you ever been in a tunnel, a real one in which you cannot even perceive the space, let alone the end? I am not talking about the subway, nor an underground passage or gallery, not even of the influence of drugs, but simply of that space which creates curiosity and fear.
RGB WALLPAPER – CARNOVSKY
text by Maria Azzurra Rossi Observing the world around us doesn’t evoke positive feelings. Many times you think that something has changed, but it has not. As a result, our imaginations lead us to unexplored worlds, up in the clouds, lost in the universe or stranded in the depths of the ocean. The power of nature and its forms are overwhelming. Artistic expression is...
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text by Francesco Gatti Here I am, supposed to write 2000 characters about videogames and architecture…mmm…today in fact I feel like I want physical contact instead, maybe hot and wet. I don’t know if I could deal with the theme of videogames in my current state. We are kept glued to our screens by separating our wonderful bodies from each other...
NULLUS LOCUS SINE GENIO
text by Adriano Dominici Writing something that might inspire a reflection on the artistic dialogue between music and architecture is a task that I would have willingly renounced. Speaking of art, and even worse, of artistic mash up is a bit like masturbation: when you’re done you always feel like a testicle. But I could not waste this intuition of referring...
BONJOUR TRISTESSE
The truth is that architecture is not a private matter, last night some kids told me about “social architecture”. “It’s a tautology” I thought; how does the architecture not to be social? It’s everywhere, for everyone, always in the middle, so pervasive, its ugliness, its beauty, its being there.
White Noise / Na3 – Nicola Auciello
“Designing with poetry, building thanks to ideas and emotions’ power. The matter, whatever it is, is decidous and vulnerable, emotions are not. They are and remain, undestructable!”
IMAGINARY CITIES
The cinema has increased the quantity and quality of all possible worlds, imagined spaces in which make us want more or less to live.
DAVIDE DEL GIUDICE
Davide Del Giudice is an architect who deals with computational design and digital fabrication and currently is working at Zaha Hadid Architects.
