At the beginning was INA Casa: thousand of italians lost their house because of the war, many of them were leaving the country to live in the cities, unemployment spread and architects were looking for a new identity beyond fascism. These were the conditions behind the epic Fanfani plan, driving [...]

Some weeks ago I had the occasion to visit the Keith Haring’s exhibition (a room with 4 artworks) at Museo Archeologico Nazionale-La Civitella in Chieti. I was impressed by the correspondence with Katsushika Hokusai’s figures, a japanese artist lived between the Eighteen and the Nineteen Century. In a recent collection [...]

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The map of the creative community of a city, but much more too. Creativos.in is a project conceived by Colaborativa, a studio from Cordoba, Spain, made by Javier Buron Garcia, Magda Sanchez and Curro Crespo, dealing with development of strategies and tools for urban transformation through the fusion of architecture, [...]

Last saturday, 3rd of december, at Spazio Pep Marchegiani, Pescara, took place the second edition of Toyo Mon Amour.   This project/event, born from a Luca Di Francescantonio’s idea, has the aim to stimulate a discussion on the state of arts and creativity, today, in Pescara, Italy. This city gave [...]

Déjà vu: they are those I find more and more often when I turn over the magazines or I skim the pages of the most important blogs about design and architecture. Maybe it’s because since I read “Architectural memes”: o dell’influenza, dell’eredità e della fretta in architettura. I can’t look [...]