March 11

WAF in Barcelona – Call for Speakers

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It’s still early to book a flight to Barcelona (you have time until next November), but in case you have what it takes you can already apply as a speaker for the next World Architecture Festival, in the most architecturally vibrant city in Spain. WAF is a festival where architects from all over the world meet, lots of awards are given and companies can also promote their products. Interactivity is one of the key factors the organizers highlight on their website. Read more

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March 10

Costruire secondo natura – Exhibit postponed

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Costruire Secondo Natura

Projects by
ecoLogicStudio – deamicisarchitetti con porfiristudio – tamassociati – Iosa Ghini Associati

a cura di Luca Molinari and Simona Galateo

SpazioFMG per l’Architettura
Via Bergognone 27, Milan
march, 16- aprile, 2,  2010
tuesday – saturday h 3 – 8 pm
free entrance
Info: t. 02 89410320

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March 10

Incontri di Architettura – Al Blu di Prussia

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March 10

Foresta nascosta, virtuous example of temporary public museum in San Giuliano Milanese

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(Text by Milena Sacchi, all images © foresta nascosta)

If you’re looking for something outside of the mainstream galleries and traditional art locations, you can visit “foresta nascosta” (“Hidden Forest”), the gorgeous public temporary museum created by Matteo Balduzzi, Daniele Cologna and Stefano Laffi in order to make the suburban neighbourhood of San Giuliano Milanese narrate its stories. I can tell you with a certain mastery – part of my family lives in San Giuliano Milanese – that this location, developed as a residential neigbourhood between the countryside and industrial areas in the Second Postwar, is not among Milan’s most charming outskirts. That’s why I’m so glad about this initiative and I think it must have been welcomed and meaningful to its audience.
The concept of Hidden Forest derives from the dormitory town trend, involves citizens to be curators of their own heritage and displays a research for collective memory. Read more

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March 9

Welcome to Saint Mesmes: The new book about LAN architecture

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[Read the Italian version of this post]

(By Angelica Di Virgilio)

© Lucboegly.com – droits réservés

Image by www.lan-paris.com ©Undo-redo.com

ONE, THREE, A HUNDRED THOUSANDS

Welcome to Saint Mesmes is an architecture book. But not just that.
It’s the analysis of LAN’s design strategy, which accoring to Manuel Oranzi’s text is built on the “experience/reflection” dichotomy. But it’s not just that either.
It’s the poetic description of the new Marchesini building in France, imposing itself with strenght and arrogance in Saint Mesmes’ rural landscape. It’s the vision photographers Jean-Marie Monthiers and Luc Boegly have of this architecture. It’s the dialogue between a landscape that transforms with seasons and a black object, hard to nail down with a definition (“Is it a box or a chipped stone?”, Carine Merlino is wondering).
It’s a tale of a building process. It’s the face and name of the workers who built it.
It’s a flip book. But not just that. Because “Welcome to Saint Mesmes” is ONE. It’s THREE. It’s a HUNDRED THOUSANDS. Read more

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March 8

Costruire secondo natura

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(Click images for text – Cliccate le immagini per il testo)

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March 8

WOOD SUMMIT SMÅLAND 2010

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Remember the call for Architecture of Necessity we published some time ago on behalf of the Virserum Art Museum in Sweden? Here’s the program for their WOOD SUMMIT SMÅLAND 2010 (which you can also download here). The event is a seminar on architecture, sustainable development and sustainable urban planning taking place on June 29 and 30, also enriching the Wood 2010 exhibition going on from May 9 to September 19 at the konsthall.

TUESDAY 29 JUNE – THE ARCHITECTURE OF NECESSITY
Topics of the day include: Sustainable urban planning; recycling and regeneration; the Architecture of Necessity; who are the city meant for?
WOOD SUMMIT SMÅLAND 2010 coincides with Virserum Music Days and this will be reflected in series of concerts throughout the seminar. All events on this day will be conducted in English.
07:30–10:00 REGISTRATION
Breakfast. Morning concert featuring Ismahni on harp and Gunilla von Bahr on flute.
CLAES CALDENBY: THE ARCHITECTURE OF NECESSITY
Caldenby is a professor in architectural theory and history at Chalmers Technical College, Sweden. He is also the moderator for the day.
MICHELLE KAUFMANN: SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE WITH MODULAR SYSTEMS
Michelle Kaufmann is an architect and designer from California, USA. She is a leading figure in the field of sustainable design and was, among other things, named “2009 Green Advocate of the Year” by the National Association of Home Builders.
LUNCH
Presentation of specially invited Swedish architecture agencies and their proposals for the Architecture of Necessity. Concert in the Paperhouse.
RICCARDO VANUCCI, FARESTUDIO: ARCHITECTURE OF NECESSITY
Riccardo Vannucci is an architect at FAREstudio in Italy. The agency won the WAF 2008 Health category with their Centre pour le Bien-être des Femmes in Burkina Faso.
KENGO KUMA, KENGO KUMA & ASSOCIATES: ANTI-OBJECT
Kengo Kuma is a Japanese architect known for his refined minimalist style. His buildings get their identity from the use of traditional materials such as bamboo, stone and metal.
17:00 TOUR OF EXHIBITIONS AND PRE-DRINKS IN THE PAPERHOUSE EVENING BANQUET
Followed by a concert in Virserum church. After that there is the possibility of enjoying a drink at the River Pub. Read more

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March 5

NABA – INTERIOR DESIGN MASTER COURSE “Contemporary Living”

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A new English-spoken Master in Interior Design, directed by our own Luca Molinari, is starting next May at NABA in Milan. Download the brochure here and the application here, and remember that NABA is part of the MIND Milan Network Design initiative (check back this post), so you might get one of the ten scholarships available – three of which include, along with a full tuition payment, a financial contribution for living in Milan.

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March 4

We are not Martians – the photography of Edward Burtynsky

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(By Cesare Alemanni)

Image from www.edwardburtynsky.com

The art of canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky reminds us of the movies by Godfrey Reggio. Similarly to the work of the Koyaanisqatsi director, the images of Burtynsky are focused on human intervention over the environment. His favourite subjects are big massive constructions and urban landscapes that often he portrays as abanonded by mankind. For this last reason his work could even remind of some apocalyptic themes like those in Cormac Mc Carthy’s The Road or J.G Ballard’s literature. His naturalistic aesthetic tells us, without any explicit polemic intent, that our intervention over earth’s soil will survive us, but perhaps our pervasiveness could not be the right way to deal with our planet. Read more

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March 3

Maison Moschino, the new boutique hotel by Moschino

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(Images © ymag.it)

Alice’s Room

This season Milan Fashion week has seen the début of a new boutique hotel signed by Moschino’s creative team.  Maison Moschino opens in a renovated neoclassical station on Viale Monte Grappa, 12 in Milan near the Corso Como and Corso Garibaldi district which is one of the most renowned areas under redevelopment in Milan. Maison Moschino keeps its original 1840 exterior design – when the station used to be the main railway connecting Milan to Monza – while the interior has been completely transformed in pure amused Moschino style. Last week Ymag.it crew had the chance to enjoy the Maison opening party and guided tour on the the floors of the new design hotel by an italian brand which has definetely succeded to keep its playful identity alive for these last 27 years, despite the contemporary crises of the whole fashion system and the usual arguments on the tiring and too much concentrated length of the week cut to 4 days, this year.

the Forest room


But Maison Moschino will last after fashion shows as a distinctive location for comfort, design and fairy stories’ lovers.  Every space is furnished with a playful combination of design classics and pieces purposely created for this hotel. Read more

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