Una porta lasciata socchiusa: la fotografia di Luisa Lambri
Untitled (Sheats-Goldstein House, #14), 2007. All photos courtesy of Studio Guenzani, Milano; Thomas Dane, London; Luhring Augustine, New York; Marc Foxx, Los Angeles; Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo; Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo A Door Left Ajar: the Phot …
All that is solid melts into air…
In theater there is nothing more powerful than the space. Today, when movies, television, computer – all flat projections on the screen – are dominating our visual world, theatre uniquely takes place in space. My early training as an architect remains …
Bob Noorda: la misura dei segni
Bob Noorda. The Measure of Signage Many of the images that characterized Italy’s passage from wartime and gave a recognizable face to its reconstruction and economic boom were the work of foreign graphic designers. “Great” Italian graphic design, that …
area 108 – Mexico City
presentazione/introduction Città del Messico abitare una conurbazione di 25.000.000 di abitanti text by Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial la città caleidoscopica text by Marella Santangelo saggi/essays Dust in the …
Mexico City: what it’s like to live in a metropolis with 25 million inhabitants
Luis Barragán, Satélite Towers, Mexico City, 1957 The capital of the Estados Unidos Mexicanos (the country’s official name according to article 44 of its constitution) in addition to being the seat of power of the union is, itself, a Federal District; …
La città caleidoscopica
Kaleidoscopic City When my dream finally came true and I was able to visit Mexico City for the first time, in August 2006, the city was in the hands of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s people! I came on the bus from the north, after crossing the states of …
From a city of architects to architects without a city
It is not a recent development that architects have stopped deciding the course of cities’ development. However until a few decades ago, not a few busied themselves in designing – if not entire cities – at least the way to transform significant parts o …
Dust in the Wind
Mexico City is a dusty city. Or, better, Mexico City is a windy and sometimes dry city and, therefore, a dusty city. Dust, in Mexico, is an index – in Charles Senders Peirce sense, i.e, that there is a direct physical connection between the sign and th …
L‘identità nella dimensione
Marella Santangelo: What town planning instruments are currently used in Mexico City, and what plans and programs do you adopt? Felipe Leal: A number of planning instruments are used, as for instance the General Urban Development Plan (PDU) for the cit …