Cesar Pelli and his idea about Architecture
Cesar Pelli is one of those architects well-liked by the public, but not so well seen by other architects. The Argentine architect has had the opportunity to work from the second half of the 900 to nowadays. Its projects are still scattered in different parts of the world and manifest its activity even within contemporary […]
Carlo Scarpa – An Italian master
Carlo Scarpa was born in Venice on June 2,1906 . In the most beautiful city in the world he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts where he met the professor and architect Vincent Rinaldo where he became assistant. In 1926, the same year he graduated, he became a teacher at the Higher Institute of […]
Dying Villages in Serbia | How to resolve the problem?
The rehabilitation of dying villages in Serbia is a matter that could be considered in many other countries of the world. I’ve just been in Serbia to participate in a workshop – held in terrapanonica – whose aim was precisely to repopulate these villages. The situation of Villages in Serbia Currently the situation is tragic from […]
A journey through the Serbian landscape
I took these images in the north of the Serbian landscape. A vast and seemingly endless territory. Serbia is a country with a very troubled past, full of wars and internal strifes, but for some years has been trying to emerge as productive land. I do not know if it is because of its history or […]
Castelvecchio Museum – A masterpiece by Carlo Scarpa
Museum Castelvecchio by Carlo Scarpa is a masterpiece of the Italian architecture and also an example of great design in all over the world. One visit is not enough to understand every part that compose this project. Here we try to show you the goodness of this place, but a trip is a must. Arriving from […]
Rolex Learning Center designed by SANAA in Lausanne
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of Sanaa architectural firm, designed Rolex Learning Center winning the international contest dated 2004- The completion was in may 2010. A library built for 20.000 volumes, a meeting room, a book shop, some offices, an auditorium, a bar, some isolated rooms for study and some commercial spaces. This is what […]
Piazza Del Campo in Siena – An example of public space
What does make a square a real square? What does make a public space a real aggregation space? Is it enough to create a urban vacuum or the planning of these places has to include different spheres, among which the social ones? We often see public spaces that have been really well planned, but lacking […]
The Evolution of urban Planning – From Le Corbusier to Andrea Branzi
The contents of the Athens charter (1933) were clear, since the beginning. The text was a kind of manifest, able to spread largely in the environment of international urban planning. The masters of Modern architecture, captained by Le Corbusier, indentified the main and the primary functions from which and for which a city had to […]
San Rocco Magazine – A cultural matter
Sometimes we can read or share something about the architectural culture, but reflections about this topic are often missing, there is a vacant place. San Rocco magazine is born from the exigency of having a new issue about architecture and from the consciousness of the wide discrepancy between commercial and academic publications. The magazine was […]
Delirious New York – Great architects write great books
Rem Koolhaas was born as a journalist, but he used to work also as screenwriter in the young age. Only at the age of 23 he starts studying architecture, taking the path that will lead him to be one of the masters in the field. Starting from his biography, a certain flexibility in action and […]
Pet Architecture – Atelier Bow Wow
Pet Architecture is a book that takes its origins from the consciousness that Tokyo is a complicated city. Even from a brief analysis it is possible to understand that an integrated urban planning has never been done – the metropolis was born as the result of interventions and spontaneous architectures. Moreover, Tokyo is a reality […]
Giacomo Borella – Architect as a craftsman
Giacomo Borella is one of those architects that seems out of the time. His little atelier- atelier Albori– is settled in Milan and it is different from the others for its distance from the conventional means, both theoretical and practical, that today are used in the architectural field. Against the rows of computers aligned in […]