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.

Special Project

An editorial intro named Past Shock (pastshock.tumblr.com) collected quotes by important architecture protagonists to introduce the launch of New York CityVision Competition, the fourth international competition by CityVision.

Interviews

A conversation with Jules Coke, founding director of Londonise office Squint/Opera, the temporary architecture works of Ball+Nogues from Los Angeles, the inflatable architecture by Berlin based Plastique Fantastique, the young architecture brothers from New York, Leong Leong, the fashion/architecture of Nicola Formichetti and Asher Levine and a conversation with actor Valerio Mastandrea about its architecture worksite short film.

Columns

The issue #5 talks about connection between music and architecture with Straight to Hell and then Metropolitan Construction Site, artists as Evol and Carlos Amorales, Roman neighborhood such as Tor Pignattara and Garbatella and looks at the “right” hand of power strictly connected with architecture.

Sections

The Warsaw photoissue by architect and photographer Simone De Iacobis and the Notebook with Francesco Lipari’s Colossario, plus our Waving, Paper Bastards and Fuckingood Agenda fixed sections.

Launch

The launch of CityVision magazine issue #5 was held at MACRO museum in Rome, last February 17th during the successfull event I Have Seen The Future (ihaveseenthefxxxxx.tumblr.com) with also a lecture of Jules Coke, director of Squint/Opera, the official launch of New York CityVision Competition and the announcement of PFFF – Inflatable Architecture Competition’s winners (www.cityvision-competition.com/pfff/results)

To have your copy

Issue #5 will be distributed around Rome, Milan, Turin and Palermo or you can buy your copy on our website www.cityvision-mag.com/shop and browse it on our Issuu page: issuu.com/cityvisionmag.

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.

In an completely filled auditorium, the evening was opened with great emphasis by Francesco Lipari, curator of the event along with Vanessa Todaro, Marco Arciero, Paolo Emilio Bellisario and Maria Azzurra Rossi. After presenting the fifth issue of CityVision magazine, new upcoming events and the portal pastshock.tumblr.com, Francesco Lipari has announced New York CityVision: the new international architectural competition organized by CityVision which this year will investigate the future of the Big Apple. The jury panel will be composed by Joshua Prince-Ramus (REX Architects), Eva Franch i Gilabert (Storefront for Art & Architecture), Roland Snooks (Kokkugia), Shohei Shigematsu (OMA ny), Alessandro Orsini (Architensions) and Mitchell Joachim (Terreform One).

During the vent space for the eleven finalists and the three winners of PFFF, the competition organized by CityVision and FARM, about an inflatable architecture. The first prize went to Emmanuel Sitbon and Selma Feriani from Paris that, in addition to the prize, will see their project realized. Shortlisted and winners will be awarded during a special event on June.

After that the scene was only for Jules Coke, founding director of SQUINT/OPERA, the well-known London based office focused on architectural communication and creative media. During the lecture, Jules Coke, for the first time in Rome, completely kept the eyes of all presents glued to the screen.

Starting from “The Usborne Book of the Future”, a book published in 1979, passing through the saga of Back to the Future, Coke has highlighted the significant gap between the perception of the future within the contemporary houses and cities. In an attempt to explain the needs and motivations of his work Jules Coke has also shown as paradoxically the image processing of a visionary future can be used to criticize the present or as a digital communication can be used in the community to easily speak to non-professionals through sounds, diagrams, visual stimuli.

The use of visual communication in the hands of SQUINT/OPERA becomes a story about urban spaces and scenarios that stimulates the imagination of the beholders not without their personal interpretation. As Coke said, the story starts from a diagram, and then become something more organic and fluid to involve the viewer in the development of the project.

A new milestone for the group of CityVision that after Juergen Mayer H and Joshua Prince Ramus, has led in Italy an international voice as SQUINT/OPERA. At the end of the event the exclamation by the audience was just one: “I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE!”

INFORMATIONS

curated by Francesco Lipari e Vanessa Todaro

with Paolo Emilio Bellisario, Marco Arciero and Maria Azzurra Rossi

web site: www.cityvision-mag.com | www.ihaveseenthefxxxxx.tumblr.com

e-mail: info@cityvision-mag.com

phone: + 39 06.39031053

ORGANIZATION – CityVision

PARTNERS/SPONSOR – Radisson – Tecnoart – Pometra – IstitutoQuasar – Multicom srl – Forno Feliziani – Vigneti Iucci

MEDIA PARTNERS – Architonic – Archinect – Archello – The Moodit – Atemporary studio

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

I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE will be the fourth cool event that the creative Roman group of CityVision will presents at the MACRO museum of via Nizza in Rome next February 17th 2012 – 6,30 pm.

After the great success of Rome CityVision Experience, Love and Kill your own Town and Y1 Independent Architecture Stuff, a new independent architecture event will host, for the first time in Rome, the famous London office SQUINT/OPERA with a lecture of Jules Coke (Squint/Opera founding director).

It will be announced a new international architecture competition to explore the future of the Big Apple: New York CityVision Competition. The jury panel will be composed by Joshua Prince-Ramus (REX Architects), Eva Franch i Gilabert (Storefront for Art & Architecture), Roland Snooks (Kokkugia), Shohei Shigematsu (OMA ny), Alessandro Orsini (Architensions) and Mitchell Joachim (Terreform One).

During the event the new issue #5 of CityVision Magazine will be presented and freely distributed as also winners and shortlisted of PFFF – Inflatable Architecture Competition organized by CityVision and FARM, will be revealed.

INFORMATIONS

curated by Francesco Lipari and Vanessa Todaro

with Paolo Emilio Bellisario, Marco Arciero and Maria Azzurra Rossi

web site: www.cityvision-mag.com | www.ihaveseenthefxxxxx.tumblr.com

e-mail: info@cityvision-mag.com

phone: + 39 06.39031053

timing: Friday February 17th, 2012 6,30 pm

free entry

ORGANIZATION – CityVision

PARTNERS/SPONSOR – Radisson – Tecnoart – Pometra – IstitutoQuasar – Multicom srl – Weeats

MEDIA PARTNERS – Architonic – Archinect – Archello – TheMoodIt – Atemporary Studio

SQUINT/OPERA London

London based office for movies, post-production and new media focused on architecture.

More than 30 experts including graphic designer, 3D animators, web designers, musicians and filmmakers (mostly with an architecture related background) working on both national and international projects asl also on small and large scale. Squint/Opera is currently working on projects in Singapore, United Arab Emirates, England, Turkey, USA and China. The company is headquarted in London, Melbourne, Abu Dhabi and Istanbul. Among their clients are Foster and partners, Grimshaw, Skidmore, Owens and Merrill and many more.

CITYVISION Rome

CityVision is an architecture laboratory with the aim of generating a dialogue between the contemporary city and its future image. It’s a way to explore the reality and the future of architectural design thanks to an editorial project, CityVision magazine; the organization of international architecture competition, CityVision competition; events and lectures, CityVision events. CityVision is a place to invent, experiment and generate new ideas, a space in continuous evolution, as the urban environment itself.

MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma

2012 kicks off by MACRO (Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome) taking a new course under the direction of Bartolomeo Pietromarchi. Based on a wide and various exhibition program, following an innovative concept, the museum represents a main center for artistic production and research on contemporary arts. The aim was born by the need to review the artist’s role as a main actor of the museum’s activities. The revitalization and enhancement of each new spaces of the MACRO are the cornerstones of this course. This is true not only for the exhibition spaces, but also and especially for those spaces whose function and vitality are expressed through the public’s presence. It is to the public itself that Odile Decq’s 2010 architectural intervention (awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 1996), above the Peroni factory, is addressed, being situated in a privileged location.

As well as this location the MACRO Testaccio space was also completed, located in the same Roman district.

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.

Il Fuoco della Natura / The Flash of Nature features paintings, photographs, sculptures, videos and installations by 82 contemporary artists coming from 18 different countries (Australia, Chile, Cuba, Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Italy, Japan, Macedonia, Mexico, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and USA). In essence, through a sequence of sublime images, The Flash of Nature, an exhibition promoted and realized by the Cultural Department of the City Council of Trieste, curated by Marco Puntin and Jonathan Turner, presents present-day symbols of the force and the beauty of Mother Nature, at this time of environmental uncertainty and climate change.

This exhibition looks at the many aspects of nature, both from the perspective of long geographical distances and in magnified close-up. It includes spectacular landscapes from around the globe depicting tropical rainforests in Latin America, the Arctic seas, the Australian bush, the Californian desert, and mountain ranges from the Dolomites and the Himalayas to Mount Fuji.

Through the eyes of artists, we see animals, plants and the natural world in all its splendor, beauty, power and perfection. The choice of the theme was determined by the conviction that Nature as a subject represents the ideal mediation between the art world and the viewing public. Realistic imagery produced by contemporary artists provides an instantly recognizable map of the natural world, free from changes in fashion or the technological input of man.

Evolution has its own slow pace, but man’s intervention with nature can be sudden, radical, disruptive and sometimes seemingly permanent. But nature can bounce back in surprising ways. So, alongside the aesthetic criteria behind the selection of specific paintings, photographs, installations and videos, in The Flash of Nature, we pose ethical questions directly linked to the works exhibited. We look at how we continue to consume and eradicate endangered species for food, clothing and medicinal purposes. The images of nature are perfect, while the implications of our ability to pollute and destroy are infinite.

Beginning with three iconic black-and-white landscapes by Ansel Adams, the exhibition includes the historical presence of such masters of photography as Robert Mapplethorpe, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Franco Fontana and Mario Giacomelli. As the show progresses, it is divided into sub-themes, including different sections dedicated to the ocean, winter landscapes, flowers and volcanoes (as represented in a painting by Cristiano Pintaldi, a graphic work by Julian Opie and a photograph by Nan Goldin).

Given the immense size of the ex-Pescheria, the two curators Marco Puntin and Jonathan Turner have taken the decision to focus on presenting large-scale works. The works selected come from important private collections, art galleries and in some cases, directly from the artist’s studio.

The exhibition has been installed in an open architectural labyrinth designed by Gian Paolo Vernier and Luigi Semerani from ell(E)gi Architecture, Trieste.

The design features three pavilions constructed below the cast-iron girders of the vast space of the former Pescheria (fish markets) in the waterfront of Trieste. One pavilion is dedicated to the theme of animals, including “portraits” created in different techniques: a chimpanzee (Andrew Zuckerman), a shark (Robert Longo), a horse (Albano Guatti), a snake (Daniel & Geo Fuchs), a deer (Santiago Ydáñez), a chihuahua (Gabriele Bonato), a tuna (Luigi Serafini), a panda (Antonio Riello) and a Wunderkammer of embalmed beasts (Francesca Martinelli).

Another pavilion is dedicated to the majesty of mountain landscapes: the Dolomites (Olivo Barbieri, Riccarda De Eccher, Giorgia Fiorio), a sacred mountain in Tibet (Monika Bulaj), a glacier in Chile (Luca Campigotto) and peaks in Argentina (Michael Najjar).

The third pavilion is devoted to film projections by two artistic duos, Masbedo and Allora & Calzadilla, the latter who represented America in the national pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale. Their works are among the few on show that include the human presence, so this third pavilion is like entering a separate house, where the viewer inside looks through windows to the world outside, at the surrounding nature. Upstairs in the ex-Pescheria, the auditorium will be used to project a series of video works by Alfredo Jaar (Chile) and Ana Mendieta (Cuba), coming from the prestigious La Gaia Collection in Busca.

The Flash of Nature also features works by the American masters of Pop Art Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist and Jim Dine, British art stars Mat Collishaw, Darren Almond and Marc Quinn, such “wild-cards” as Russian Oleg Kulik, Macedonian Robert Gligorov, and the Americans Ed Ruscha, Bill Beckley and Andres Serrano, the Dutchman Anton Corbijn, and Germans Elger Esser and Julian Rosefeldt.

These days, while most environmental news is marked by tragedy, several works show nature valiantly fighting back – Massimo Crivellari’s photographs of the forest slowly growing back over the venues built for the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina, Stefano Scheda’s images of wild plants reclaiming an abandoned house, and Giacomo Costa’s massive lightbox showing a jungle strangling architectural ruins, previously exhibited in the Italian pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale.

Il fuoco della Natura / The Flash of Nature

12.02.2012 – 09.04.2012

salone degli incanti – ex pescheria

riva nazario sauro, 1 trieste

time

monday to friday

11 am – 1 pm / 4 – 8 pm

saturday, sunday and public holidays

10 am – 8 pm

tickets

adults 6,00 €

concessions 4,00 €

free up to 14 years

info & contacts

tel. +39 040 3226862

info_expescheria@comune.trieste.it

www.triestecultura.it

press office

atemporarystudio

di samantha punis e giovanna felluga

tel. +39 040 413634

info@atemporarystudio.com

www.atemporarystudio.com

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.

The idea is simple and effective: creativity and chocolate to converge on the egg: the symbol of birth and perfection. Since 2005, there are many issues that have involved graphic designers, illustrators, designers and artists and master chocolate makers from Italy and abroad: an reinterpretation of an easter chocolate egg,  always joyous and fantastic.

The chocolate eggs and the works of art are auctioned at the end of event and the proceeds gived to Telefono Azzurro, an expected moment by many collectors and benefactors who attend always the highlight of the event. Gumdesign curates the event in its entirety: from graphic design staging of the exhibition, the press office organization, always in line with Telefono Azzurro and its local manager Maria Giovanna Guerra.

The exhibition, sponsored by the Province of Massa Carrara, the Italian Master Confectioners Academy and Telefono Azzurro, will be held from March 17th till March 31st, 2012 at Palazzo Ducale, in the center of Massa.

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

When you think about Christmas time you are used to see yourself projected in the middle of a big panettone and other foody things, but this time before collecting fats you’re going to kill them.

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PAPPANATALE will be at the Lost&Found studio – via Giuseppe Arimondi 3, Rome

guests: Lovefingers – ex Ariel Pink’s drummer Andrew Hogge + Jean + Viki + the K Party crew

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December 23rd – from 11 p.m. till 6 a.m. – 10euro w/ drink included

What do you want more? Santa Claus?

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more info: Doppia Palma 3477541948 / guest list: doppiapalma@gmail.com

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The Pills – Special Pappanatale edition by Dude Magazine

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.

resident djs - Francisco / 3 Untitled Djs

expo - Colossario di Francesco Lipari

free entry till 00.30 – after 00.30 –> 10euro with drink

info: 06 41780081 – loosehabit@gmail.com

Con il live di TROPICS di Venerdì 02 Dicembre, in collaborazione con il magazine City Vision, si chiude in grande stile il 2011 di Loose Habit. A fare gli onori di casa, come sempre, i dj resident FRANCISCO e 3 UNTITLED DJS. Nel corso della serata, per “Looking Forward”, attraverso cui Loose Habit si apre al mondo dell’arte, ci sarà l’installazione Colossario di Francesco Lipari.

TROPICS

L’uomo che si nasconde dietro il progetto Tropics è Chris Ward. Ha un contratto con l’etichetta Planet Mu ed è un 22enne inglese influenzato dagli anni 70, dal post-punk, e da qualsiasi cosa registrasse da ragazzino. Tropics ci riporta i suoni raggianti della nostalgia trasognata dell’estate. La sua musica ha già attirato l’attenzione di Pitchfork e Xlr8r, che hanno postato sue tracce, e di alcune bands tra cui Bear In Heaven e Little Dragon, per cui ha curato dei remix.

La sua musica è un meraviglioso mix in slow motion che suona come un lunghissimo stato d’euforia, come per esempio Give It Up, brano scoppiettante con una voce femminile spettrale e scampanellii ovunque.

Melorr è più lenta; cresce piano, intorno a sempre più elementi: voci, chitarre elettriche, impennate di melodia.

Ma è Soft Vision quella che ha attirato l’attenzione su Chris, col suo suono ispirato alla produzione degli anni 80. Sembra in 3D, con immense ondate di synth che brillano e trasudano da lei, con un groove che ricorda suoni di batteria che non avrebbero sfigurato nel pop da stadio degli anni ’80.

Nel 2011 è uscito il primo bellissimo album Parodia Flare.

FRANCISCO

Francisco è il progetto solista di Francesco de Bellis, conosciuto come una metà dei Jollymusic e Mat101. Il suo esordio discografico avviene nel 1996 come MAT101 su Nature Records, progetto di dance sperimentale con sapori che vanno dall’electro alla musica dei videogiochi senza disdegnare uno sguardo al pop. Dopo un paio di singoli ed un ottimo album, MAT101 diventa immediatamente uno dei più freschi ed originali prodotti della scena underground elettronica italiana. Nel 1999 i MAT101 danno vita ad un nuovo progetto dove altre influenze ed atmosfere trovano spazi ben più ampi: il nuovo nome è Jolly Music. Il nuovo sound proposto con il progetto Jolly Music è ben più aperto, spaziando dalla disco psichedelica al soul, dall’electro all’hip hop. Un vero e proprio frullato di sonorità che viene immediatamente riconosciuto in Inghilterra come una delle novità più interessanti del 2000. L’originalità della musica dei Jolly Music in poco tempo apre loro le porte del mondo musicale meno sotterraneo e dopo l’uscita su Nature Records dell’album “Jollybar” è l’Illustrious Records (nuova etichetta dance della Sony UK) a farsi viva con una proposta di licenza per il suddetto album. Contemporaneamente i Jolly Music collaborano con diversi artisti contemporanei tra i quali citiamo Erlend Oye dei Kings of Convenience… Con il suo progetto solista, caratterizzato da un suono fresco e frizzante, fatto di elementi della disco italiana più evoluta e di groove house stile Chicago e old school funk, Francisco si è imposto come uno degli artisti più poliedrici che il panorama produttivo dance italiano abbia mai incontrato: sono infatti bastati due singoli come “Salvation” (Pigna 002) e “Fregna” (Pigna 005) ad attrarre l’attenzione di moltissimi dj italiani, europei e non solo. Infatti, sin dall’uscita di questi due 12″ sono state diverse le richieste di partecipazioni a compilations tra le quali, su tutte, citiamo quella pubblicata da Jockey Slut (UK) e quella pubblicata da Dj Magazine (UK). Prendendosi sulle spalle l’eredità dell’italodisco più pura, Francisco ha poi pubblicato un nuovo singolo su Nature Records “Moon Roller”

(NAT2127) che è stato seguito dall’album “Music Business” (NAT2129) e da altri due singoli, “Hero” e “Life is life”, rispettivamente per le etichette 2020Vision e Klakson (quella di Dexter … famosa per la strasuonata “I Don’t Care”). Anche in questo caso, grazie all’esperienza acquisita con i progetti Jollymusic e Mat101, Francisco affronta i suoi show con enorme slancio, proponendo un suono che, a cavallo tra ironia e groove, riesce sempre a sorprendere il dancefloor senza mai risultare scontato.

3 UNTITLED DJS

I 3 UNTITLED DJS sono Yuri Toccacelli e Antonio Miccolis. Insieme da due anni mixano e producono suono electro contaminati da rock, funk ed hip hop, come resident (ed organizzatori) di E-Square (Circolo Degli Artisti, Roma) e come ospiti in alcuni dei migliori locali di Roma come Lanificio159, Carrozzerie, Rising Love, Dimmi, e nel resto d’Italia, come il festival Streamfest 2010 (Salento), il Klang di Arezzo e molti altri. Fanno parte del Diesel Planet Dj Team, progetto sostenuto dal brand di abbigliamento che mira a lanciare sulla scena dj emergenti italiani. Hanno realizzato la colonna sonora del trailer di presentazione del Festival Delle Letterature 2010, che si tiene ogni anno presso la Basilica di Massenzio a Roma, e condiviso il palco con artisti internazionali come WhoMadeWho, Buraka Som Sistema, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, These New Puritans, Peter Kruder, ed italiani come Meg, Bugo, Scuola Furano, Useless Wooden Toys, Fare Soldi.

FRANCESCO LIPARI

Francesco Lipari è un architetto Siciliano con base a Roma.

E’ il fondatore dello studio OFL architecture e della piattaforma cross editoriale Cityvision, in entrambi affiancato da Vanessa Todaro.

Francesco descrive OFL architecture e Cityvision come un unico laboratorio di ricerca architettonica interdisciplinare interessato a ridefinire i rapporti significativi della città contemporanea e delle sue attuali condizioni urbane; due innovativi veicoli di ricerca allo scopo di sviluppare una nuova metodologia di progettazione che integri l’architettura con discipline parallele: cinema, biologia, pit¬tura, scultura e letteratura.

I suoi lavori sono stati premiati, esposti e pubblicati a Milano, Roma, Venezia, New York, Torino, Seoul, Siviglia, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Londra, Pechino, Stoccolma.

The fourth and last esisode of AO by Emanuele Capponi.

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

Upper Town allows residents of Venice to form an attachment to the land and be directly connected to the city, to feel it’s energy and rich heritage that stimulates new thoughts and ideas. Upper Town, although designed
to be futuristic, is not far from the technological trends and implementation. Conceived as a self-sustaining organism, it uses solar energy for it’s daily needs and does not pollute the environment.

A parallel “extra” modern city, that allows a constant observation and study of the city as a sociological phenomenon.
By observing and analyzing the data it would be possible to improve conditions of life in Venice. So the real Venice residents can actively participate in the daily life of the city, with the ability to activate the devastated zones of urban tissue.