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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
The essential Martí
Magazine -> #14 RefreshLet’s take irony: a linguistic picklock, a means for coping and coming to grips with an ever changing world, a way of putting oneself on the board. Irony hasn’t much currency lately, a circumstance that often makes for cultural doldrums. How does irony fit into your works? Well, I take it as a personal commitment to ensure that all my works ...
continue..Advice for would-be investors
Magazine -> #17 SerendipityMake mistakes and learn from them; I am a strong believer in making mistakes. You learn from them and you become stronger. I even think schools should give out extra marks to pupils who make mistakes. If you can, do it yourself; I wish I'd had the convinction to go it alone right from the start. I spent too long time trying to find a backer or s...
continue..Beautiful homes for the majority
Magazine -> #3 Weaving relationsLUCEPLAN designs, manufactures and markets lighting appliances for residences, offices, community, government and agency buildings, indoor and outdoor environments. Luceplan's adventure was born from the design-oriented spirit of three young architects, among whom is Riccardo Sarfatti, who in 1978 decided to pursue the goal of "beautiful homes for...
continue..Deeper rivers flow more silently
Magazine -> #0 Experimentation and innovationWHAT IS "DESIGN TIME"? My "design time" has changed a lot over the years. When I was young, in Japan, I attended a rationalist school. Designs were dealt with in a very rigorous manner and preceded by a host of preliminary studies to prove that they were logical and functional. When I moved to Italy in 1939, I discovered a more informal and free...
continue..Lone photographer
Magazine -> #20 Home MadeIn his essay "How to write a dissertation", Umberto Eco recommends that students avoid playing the part of the solitary genius holed up in their room, writing. He suggests that we should always discuss things with others, so our work can be read and criticised. Over the years, this warning has been a constant thorn in my side. I always try to work...
continue..Cogito ergo sum
Magazine -> #20 Home MadeCogito ergo sum, it reads on what is probably the most famous work by German artist Rosemarie Trockel. In actual fact, it is not a painting but a frame containing a piece of knitting like Grandma used to do. The insight of Descartes meets feminine handiwork, through a subtly sophisticated critique of Cartesian dualism, which will not leave us alone...
continue..The mobility of the emotions
Magazine -> #23 Emotion and SurpriseIn front of a cup of coffee. Hey Jude, don’t make it bad take a sad song and make it better Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better … The Beatles, 1968. Certain places excite me more than others. When I visit them, I am reconnected with a very personal, familiar, dreamlike memory, and I feel a great t...
continue..Interview with Daniel Buren
Magazine -> #8 Place, not placeIt's snowing when I meet Daniel Buren at the Press Restaurant of the Bologna Art Fair. He's just arrived and despite the clatter of cutlery and din and row of loud voices he's easy and relaxed, and quite willing to answer my questions. After all, any place will do when one meets with the "genuine article". To quote from one of your statements...
continue..Interview with Claudio Silvestrin
Magazine -> #5 The Dictatorship of the ConsumptionDoes 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..Amedei: temptation
Magazine -> #5 The Dictatorship of the ConsumptionAmedei is the courage to pursue a dream. It is a new generation of chocolate producers with the know-how that was passed down from a family who processes confectionery raw materials, with a dream that was inherited from grandmother Amedei, a Tuscany-born woman who was fond of cooking, flavours and taste. “I can resist everything except temptat...
continue..Taking time to look
Magazine -> #24 Self PortraitWhat do you think of self-portraiture in the self-timer mode in photography? Well, the first thing that comes to mind when I hear a picture’s been shot that way is “vanity”; anyone having recourse to such a technique is out to show himself at his appealing best. Mind you, that’s understandable because we all implicitly reject the image we ...
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