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Odile Decq on 2010 Architecture biennale
Architecture is at a turning point of its history. The human factor over architecture as mere communication. Video-interview with architect Decq, her personal idea of architecture and her favourite pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

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!

AILATI preview on Marie Claire
AILATI on the cover and featured in september Marie Claire. How terrible to be happy. Virtuous exempla projects that can make us happier. Even Italy can do it.

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

The Drop. Solo Exhibition of Aldo Lanzini
For his solo exhibition at the gallery Le Case D'Arte Aldo Lanzini has created an installation including new works which are inspired by archetypal images and personal narratives on the theme of waiting.

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.