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

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

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

March 8

Costruire secondo natura

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

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

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

February 24

Gentlemen of Bacongo by Daniele Tamagni. Book presentation @ Forma, Milan

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(All images © Daniele Tamagni)

Tomorrow, february, 25

h 6.30 pm

Forma. Centro Internazionale di Fotografia

Piazza Tito Lucrezio Caro, 1

20136 Milano

info@formafoto.it

Gentlemen of Bacongo by Daniele Terragni

Book presentation

Photographer Daniele Tamagni, designer and stylist Marina Spadafora, Francesco Benvenuti Arborio di Gattinara, Trolley publisher Gigi Giannuzzi and Contrasto director Denis Curti will attend and debate on the book.

Download the invitation

Don’t miss the chance to get introduced to the world of style and fashion of Congo Sapeurs that photographer Daniele Tamagni depicted in his, “Gentlemen of Bacongo”. The book is a colourful journey through the streests of Brazzaville and Kinshasa by young photographer Tamagni who has distinguished himself by his sociocultural research on Afro-Caribbean subculters around the world. Tamagni’s interviews to Congolese sapeurs open us the doors to the SAPE creed, the Society of Tastemakers and Elegant People who perform and live the dandy-like dressing codes of elegance and behaviour. Refined, respected and admired like real vip by their communities sapeurs inherit and revive the French colonial roots and – despite living in slums and poverty – carry on the daily mission of elegance started by Grenard André Matsoua, the first Grand Sapeur who came back from Paris dressed as a genuine French flâneur in 1922. Tamagni’s eye immortalizes the paradoxes of the sapeur life and brilliantly captures the conflicting belief in good taste performed by gentlemen you wouldn’t expect in the Republic of Congo or in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The eternal and boundless longing for beauty keeps a constant factor of human condition. Aesthetics can be comforting! Read more

February 17

Verso il Mercato della Terra di Milano

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February 17

Studenten Kamer Festival

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Today we’ve got good news for all the ones following us from the Netherlands. Next week (precisely on Wednesday 24) the Studenten Kamer Festival will take place in a bunch of Dutch cities, opening student rooms to small audiences to promote young and talented performers who want to show off their skills in music, dance, performance, stand-up comedy and so on. In case you live in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Eindhoven or another of the many locations involved (or you’re just passing by), Stukafest can be a good chance for you to enjoy an unusual and cozy experience while at the same time touring the city and supporting young artists. It definitely looks like a win-win situation.
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