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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
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..Mantova, a town moving to the rhythm of the festival
Magazine -> #2 Creating OpportunitiesFESTIVALETTERATURA HAS FOR YEARS BEEN THE CULTURAL CELEBRATION OF ITALIAN AND INTERNATIONAL WRITERS, ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS. A TOWN OF ANCIENT TRADITIONS, MANTOVA MAKES ITS STREETS AND SQUARES AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC SO THAT IT CAN MEET AND EXCHANGE VIEWS AND OPINIONS, IN A PEACEFUL AND SIMPLE ATMOSPHERE. CREATED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE BERLIN AN...
continue..City theatre
Magazine -> #19 AequòpolisI’d only been at the Architecture Biennale for seven seconds when I saw a red number appear regarding my city: while every city in the world was growing by 25, 50 or 172 inhabitants each hour, the only one with a minus 1 was Milan. There and then, my pride was hurt, as it makes you think “We’re disappearing!” One less person, one less every...
continue..The city has a soul
Magazine -> #19 AequòpolisA city is like a life: it needs a soul. A city’s soul is its inhabitants, its recollections, its memory... and also a certain element of mystery. A city without mystery is a dry city...loveless, emotionless. I think of a city as a face, like someone you want to see again, someone you want to love. Someone we might not get on with all the tim...
continue..A skyscraper towards the moon
Magazine -> #16 Beautiful and well madePaul Goldberger is the Dean of Parsons The New School for Design, and one of the nation’s most eminent critics and writers on architecture and design. Dean Goldberger has helped shape public understanding of the social and political implications of design for nearly three decades. First, as the architecture critic of The New York Times, where h...
continue..Self-portrait and Haptic Interface Design Workshop
Magazine -> #24 Self PortraitSince I started working on Haptic Interface Design and especially on the field research into the haptic quality hidden in various textures, my digital camera has been working exactly as my third eye: it automatically focuses on and catch what I do not see exactly with my two naked eyes but I feel by touching, hearing, smelling or by instinct. Ac...
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