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Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...Read more
The 10th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, directed by architect and town planner Richard Burdett*, focuses on the theme of Cities: migration, growth, mobility and sustainable development. As part of the exhibition at the Corderie dell’Arsenale, architect Aldo Cibic will be interpreting the concept of density. Here, il...
continue..In your experience, how have errors affected your professional practice and what’s your attitude towards making mistakes? Errors can critically affect the outcome of any work, but they’re also an opportunity for reviewing consolidated practices and routine ways of doing things. As such, they can be very liberating, obliging us to make new deci...
continue..Does the architect respond to the client or to himself? Every architect necessarily responds to himself. The architecture he expresses is the fruit of his values and sensitivity, the fruit of a personal quest, therefore. In a way, it is the transposition of his way of being. It is not a matter of following fashions or styles. It means translating...
continue..Conversation during a nice afternoon in Milan under a fair, sunny sky and everything else. Players and characters: Michele de Lucchi: the bearded inventor [MdL] Fabio Castelli: the bookshop owner Scrivàno: the chronicler Three preliminary remarks or so exchanged not without good reason. MdL “Nice and well made”. It’s doing thing...
continue..History of Estonian Academy of Arts goes back to 1914, founded as Tallinn Industrial Art School. After Estonia’s re-independence from USSR, in 1994 Estonia became European Union member state, and in 1996 the institute was renamed as Estonian Academy of Arts and certified as a sole public-low Art University in Estonia. Our institute is member of ...
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"Where I am, makes me what I am"
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