Milan memory/invention
The “Velasca tower”, a building that symbolizes a thought that is impenitently pursued by its author, has in the Twentieth century marked a virtual break with the dogmas of Modernism and its supposedly anti-historical character,...
Milan memory/invention – Università Luigi Bocconi
We saw this brief as an opportunity for the Luigi Bocconi University to make a space at the scale of the city. To this end we have built at the scale of the site,...
Milan memory/invention – Nuovo Polo Fiera Milano
The new trade fair is located on the site of the former AGIP refinery at Rho-Pero, an area of over 2 million sqm that has recently been reclaimed, and close to functional infrastructures of...
Berlin built/built on existing tissue
The empty areas left behind by the “wall” have triggered a long debate on the city and its design. Planners have proposed to build on the existing tissue, an ancient method on which basis...
Berlin built/built on existing tissue – Blocco Schützenstrasse
The Schützenstrasse block in Berlin, designed by Aldo Rossi, is one of the most authoritative examples and lessons on the importance of continuity, understood as a project’s ability to present past, present and future...
Graz art/architecture
Art and architecture have, in history, always been closely bound by a single urban destiny associated with the presence of monuments. Modernity, with its dogmatic goals defined for design, as solutions to the needs...
Graz art/architecture – Kunsthaus
In the late Nineties the city of Graz decided to found a new museum of contemporary art. After two competitions, launched in 1988 and 1998 respectively, which had not resulted in the construction of...
Graz art/architecture – Mur Island
A twist in the river, a node in the river, a circulation-route in the river. The node is an island; it’s a dome that twists into a bowl that twists into a dome. The...
Beijing iconic/aniconic
With the recent Olympic games a series of striking buildings have been built: the new stadium, the new airport, the new public television headquarters (CCTV). The introverted Beijing, secluded in courts protected by walls,...
Beijing iconic/aniconic – 798 art zone
In 1952, following the directives for cooperation between the Soviet Union and the new People’s Republic of China, the farming village of Dashanzi on the northeastern outskirts of Beijing was chosen as site for...
Tokyo sell/inhabit
In the Japanese capital density is obviously an urban constant, but the exaltation of consumer goods, commerce and individuality has given rise, in the most popular downtown streets, to the development of a new kind...
Tokyo sell/inhabit – Moriyama House
The Moriyama House consists of seven dwellings; one for the client and six freestanding apartment units. The plot is located in an attractive part of Tokyo where the traditional Japanese urban atmosphere still remains....
