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President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, visits AILATI
A few stolen shots

Interview to Andrea Boschetti/ Metrogramma on Supergundam installation within "Italy 2050" section in co-operation with Italy Wired magazine
text by Gianni Biondillo

AILATI under construction. More photos by Giorgio De Vecchi
At long last it's done! Check out the Italian Pavilion construction stages.

Peter T. Lang's point of view on the Italian Pavilion Ailati + preview photos by Giorgio De Vecchi
Lang's perspective on AILATI for Ymag's international followers. A short vademecum to get into the Italian Pavilion + preview photos by Giorgio De Vecchi.

AILATI IN THE MAKING...
It's a matter of hours now, anxiety grows and the first journalists and personalities arrive. Enjoy a few stolen pics of AILATI in the making!

architecture we love

M9 - A New Museum For the City of Mestre by Sauerbruch Hutton
The German studio Sauerbruch Hutton has won the competition to design M9, a project for a mixed-use museum in Mestre, near Venice. The participating proposals will be shown at the exhibition M9 - A New Museum for a New City.

watch out!

New Master in International Cooperation - Sustainable Emergency Architecture
The new Masters of International Cooperation in Sustainable Emergency Architecture in Barcelona aims at preparing future architects and professionals to deal with regional planning and emergency construction projects.

ceci n'est pas design

Making Repairs, Making (Environmental) Amends - part two
by Susan Yelavich
Why are objects in such disrepute? what's ahead for Design? Repair as popular ethos of the future
Wandering thoughts by professor Susan Yelavich

looking for a client

Mobile Floating Architecture by Giovanni Ambrosio
The underworld of project ideas in search of a client. The secret, or unfortunately disregarded, designs which nourish our imagery and daily life. What's really feasible? Check out Giovanni Ambrosio's Floating Architecture.

guest room

RepairingCities #4. Paradox Architecture
by Marco Navarra
El Sawy represents a first example of repair as a passage from temporary informal actions to a significant urban change. It transforms the unexpressed energy of a big monofunctional structure into a place of life.

RepairingCities # 3. Casual/Tactics
By Marco Navarra
Informal practices generate little architectures of paradox, moving our attention on the unexpected as a design element, suggesting the possibility of a second thought, conceiving the error as an invention tool.

parallel universes

Walking Through Walls in the Zuidas. An Interview with Israeli artist Tom Tlalim (third part)
by Nicola Bozzi
In the third and last part of the interview, Tom tells us about the role of the contemporary artist and his relationship to De Zuidas.

i hate rendering

[I Hate Rendering] A MARS ARCHITECTURE by Stefan Davidovici
We present you the martian architectures designed by Stefan Davidovici (check out his blog). "Drawings are a continuous way of exploring the architectural space freely, without the constraints of regular Architecture."

Make Me Room 02: a Furnace in Murano
by Anna Barbara
The Venini furnace is a practical laboratory of Richard Sennett's essay, The Craftsman. The book teaches technique is worth at least as much as talent, since there is no doing without it, but just idea.

Make Me Room 01: Milano Stazione Centrale
by Anna Barbara
The time of waiting... which doesn't exist in the extraordinary time machines that stations and airports are. The Milano Stazione Centrale case.