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Last Issue: #31 The Journey
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
“Big is more”: Bjarke Ingels´ new architecture project in New York
-> "Big is more": Bjarke Ingels´ new architecture project in New YorkThe great names in architecture didn't have a lot of luck in New York City, recently. Not that they didn’t try. For a tiny lot on the East river, Santiago Calatrava designed a giant cantilevered step ladder in the sky. It was supposed to be the highest apartment building in the city, but nobody dared to buy one of the “residential cubes”. The...
continue..2011: let´s celebrate the 10th anniversary of illywords!
-> 2011: let´s celebrate the 10th anniversary of illywords!2011 is a milestone for illywords. This year we are having the tenth anniversary of the magazine and we would like to warmly celebrate it on our illywords blog which is young but nevertheless able to reach a wide group of friends. To keep track of some illywords’ thoughts of the past ten years, we came up with the idea of developing in our blog ...
continue..Book Review: Cibic Rethinking Happiness
-> Book Review: Cibic Rethinking HappinessFor the 12th Biennale di Venezia this year, architect Aldo Cibic (and his studio) present four projects based in reality but utopic in their vision. Billed as "new realities for changing lifestyles", Rethinking Happiness is not just about architecture; it proposes a use of space and structures conceived of as a kind of film... with a storyline deve...
continue..Stefano Giovacchini: What is Colour Design?
-> Stefano Giovacchini: What is Colour Design?An interview with Stefano Giovacchini, a colour designer in Lucca. What is Colour Design? What is colour design and how does one become a colour designer? Colour Design is a necessity: colour is a complex language that interacts profoundly with the individual both on a physical and psychological level. The language of colour plays into all th...
continue..Glass Houses in Trieste receive prestigious prize
-> Glass Houses in Trieste receive prestigious prizeThe atelier of Peter Lorenz has received the Premio Marcello D'Olivo 2010 for Sottolfaro, six "floating" houses on the gulf of Trieste, right under the city's lighthouse. The glass box effect, oriented towards the sea, is influenced by Californian models and a first of its type of Trieste - and perhaps for Italy. In his recent interview for illy...
continue..MAXXI-mum space in Rome
-> MAXXI-mum space in RomeThe new contemporary art museum in Rome, MAXXI, opened May 30th 2010. Controversy still surrounds the design of the building by architect Zaha Hadid, but one thing's for sure: there is a new, international feeling in and around this building. I went to the MAXXI last week to breathe some of this international, contemporary air. I was ready to ...
continue..Sorpresa!
-> Sorpresa!Mi sarebbe piaciuto produrre un numero di illywords intitolato “LA SORPRESA!”. Possiamo però riflettere e scambiare opinioni sul tema attraverso il web. Chissà che non si riesca un domani a realizzarlo fisicamente :-) Oggi c'è una spasmodica voglia di sorprendere il pubblico, attraverso la pubblicità, attraverso le azioni e le relazioni:...
continue..Refresh America
Magazine -> #14 RefreshThe United States has been called the land of opportunity, the place where life can begin anew. Today America is a destination for young people from all over the world who want to further their studies. The best American Universities attract talent, allow direct contact with research and support student innovation. We met one of these talents, Enri...
continue..Cultural interlude with Aldo Cibic
Magazine -> #18 Food for the mindThe 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..Biennale – Culture open to comparison
Magazine -> #18 Food for the mindFor the first time, illycaffè is a partner of the 10th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, continuing the relationship which began at the previous editions of Biennale Art in 1997, 2003 and 2005. Against this background of cultural enjoyment we talked to Chairman Davide Croff on the theme of “food for thought”. Ha...
continue..Vertical or Horizontal city?
Magazine -> #19 AequòpolisThere is a famous story bandied about by the world’s leading historians. They say that, at a certain point in Babylon, part of the city was occupied by invaders and enemies, and the other parts knew nothing about it. In other words, there was no communication between the various parts of the city (...). The problem I’ve been feeling as a maj...
continue..A snapshot on the city
Magazine -> #19 AequòpolisOver time, I have learned to observe with the eye of a detective, or someone who wants to gather documentary evidence, avoiding a critical spatial dimension. This means that my impressions are highly subjective, the same as any curious person's. Curiosity about places, different landscapes, far-flung destinations, what I saw as a child, the wonde...
continue..Self-portraits, almost
Magazine -> #24 Self PortraitIn front of a coup of coffee “When I saw myself, I wasn’t there”, hissed the poets (funambulists) of the art, our art, when age-old conventional forms were suddenly torn asunder by concepts. That was indeed the time when art practices were centred on the conceptual (by way of example see a square metre of felt under the entry “Vincenzo A...
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