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The perfection of imperfect

Your work shows your clear preference for the “manual” dimension, which we could express with the term “home made” – is this the result of a strong desire to rediscover your roots? It is part of our background, connected to the place where we were born. We have never abandoned our roots. Although we work in São Paulo, Humberto and I ha...

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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: background, brazil, children, communicating, community, creativity, designs, desire, dialogue, dimension, experiences, feel, fernando campana, firms, hand made | Leave A Comment »

The happy city

Magazine -> #19 Aequòpolis

The pre-industrial city was one in which classes mingled, where the aristocrats were on one floor, the middle class on another, and the working class on yet another, all in the same building. With the advent of the industrialised society, there was a shift in the functions of each social class. This led to the working class ghettos, upper class ...

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Nov 22, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: aristocrats, assisi, cities, classes, companies, congestion, decentralisation, domenico de masi, free time, functional city, ghettos, happy city, inhabitants, luxuries, manchester | Leave A Comment »

City theatre

Magazine -> #19 Aequòpolis

I’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...

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Nov 22, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: 20th century, architecture biennale, bogota, career, china, city, density, elio de capitani, eye opener, fascist era, governments, headquarters of the gil, ignorance, individualism, inhabitants | Leave A Comment »