olnik spanu house
The place is of profound tranquility where after a day of rain and fog an intense light reflects in the stilled mirror of the majestic Hudson River‘s deep waters. A place where twilights are a thousand colors as the water breaks into a thousand reflect …
I.A.C.P.
January 2006, the phone of my firm rings, the caller is engineer Maurizio Urbinati of the institute for low-income housing of Ancona. bAfter some civilities he tells me “architect Gambardella, we have erected the skeleton of the building you designed i …
mori x hako
This project is situated in a largely residential area that lies about 1km north of the train station, distinguished by a large number of plots of land that are exceptionally long in relation to their frontage. The site for this project, too, was a nar …
black box
The basic design is a simple, cube-shaped BlackBox within which the different activities set out in the design specifications can take place in various configurations. Thus there is always a degree of stimulating mystery as to what is taking place insi …
soe ker tie house
In the fall of 2008 TYIN travelled to Noh Bo, a small village on the Thai-Burmese border. The majority of the inhabitants are Karen refugees, many of them children. These were the people we wanted to work for. A few months prior we came in touch with O …
La semplicità e l’essenza delle cose – Christiane Löhr
Light and fragile, the work of Christiane Löhr renders the complexity and abundance of the elements it is made from with “delicacy”. The painstaking construction, the numerous tiny elements used, the complex geometric composition of the forms, result i …
flake house
The flake house, a nomadic, road-gauged dwelling, has been conceived to clad the places wherever it lands, as to transpose theses in an unusual vision. A poetical shelter, a “folie”, that merges low-tech and hi-tech. The interior finish is smooth and s …
contemporary itinerary: Stockholm
millenium stad text by Antonello Boschi At times, reading a novel or watching a film can be the best guides to a city. The idea, for instance, that we got of Stockholm through 1960s’ cinema: on one hand, Gian Luigi Polidoro’s comedy “Il diavolo“, which …
area 105 – artificial landscape
presentazione/introduction paesaggi artificiali testo Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial la verità del falso testo Francesco Ventura letture critiche/critical lectures non-super-iper-luoghi testo Paolo Giardiello sc …
paesaggi artificiali
The term landscape, freed from the limitations connected with the common concept that it is strictly associated with nature, is in any case still a matter of homogeneous surroundings: the agricultural landscape, the urban landscape, the industrial land …