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.

February 24

I Hate Rendering / Looking for a Client
New Ymag competitions

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The following announcement launches two new sections of our website, which will become active when we’ll post the first projects, starting tomorrow.

Dear architect/designer,
as an international blog focused on the continuous research of new ways to communicate and critically narrate the complexity and the changes in contemporary architecture, design and graphics, Ymag wants to constitute a platform for cultural exchange between different worlds.
With these goals in mind, we are now lauching two new categories on our website: I Hate Rendering and Looking for a Client.

The first, as you can easily guess, is a challenge and at the same time an answer to the prevailing dictatorship of rendering on most magazines and blogs, which too often propose project images that look very much alike. Consequently, I Hate Rendering will be devoted to drawings, sketches, and whatever handmade representation to promote and “re-discover” our expressive forces and abilities to convey ideas. The new category aims to start a critical debate on this theme, allowing all our readers to speak their mind and comment on every drawing, its peculiarities and techniques.

The second category, Looking for a Client, will be devoted to non-realized architectures in search of a client to become true. The purpose here is to unveil the underworld of project ideas that nourish the daily life of more or less famous studios and ateliers. The category will include competition projects, degree theses and, most of all, all those designs started after pure research and personal reflection by any author.

Our invitation is to join us and help us create an archive of vibrant ideas. Send your sketches, drawings or architectures looking for a client to:
info@ymag.it
We’ll be pleased and honoured to take it into consideration and promote it.
The invitation to send photos, drawings and whatever can illustrate your most recent works is open to everybody!
Thank you and we hope to hear from you soon.

The Yearbook Magazine editorial staff

February 22

Gagosian Gallery – Beverly Hills Completes Expansion by Architect Richard Meier

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Gagosian Gallery has completed the expansion of their Beverly Hills gallery, a new 3,000 sqf ground-floor gallery space designed by Richard Meier & Partners and to be unveiled on March 4. Read more

February 8

A HOUSE FOR LADY GAGA. ICARCH
Gallery Competition

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(Special thanks to ICARCH Gallery)


Image from “Bad Romance” set, © Lady Gaga official site

Sometimes speaking half in jest produces the best results ever. Down from its ivory tower, architecture speculation stll creates for the sake of creating despite times to remain aloof from economic systems, bureaucracy and democracy are almost reduced to none. Unprofitable ideas and designs spread among every studio. We all need to disconnect and, who knows? The weirdest trick could change into a profitable project and find a client…And if not, who cares? We invite you to visit the Chicago-based ICARCH Gallery – deliberately inspired by Ephimeteus (literally “afterthought,”), Titan brother of the most reknown Prometheus, openly “confused, imperfect, hungry, anti-business, passionate” and, most of all, provocative. Since 2003 ICARCH has launched competitions like: “The House of War”, “A New Facade for Florence San Lorenzo”, “The House of Pi”, “The House of Oxymorons” and others themed on a series of personalities like Eric Rohmer, Federico Fellini, Albert Camus or Friedrich Nietzsche. Now ICARCH goes pop and it’s time for Lady Gaga, the flamboyant singer brought to the fore for her spectacular mise-en-scène and outfits.

Lady Gaga, Bad Romance video

Here follows ICARCH’s announcement for A HOUSE FOR LADY GAGA COMPETITION:

The more she hides, the more she exposes. And vice versa. We reflected on the strange dialectics between hiding / exposing, as illustrated by Lady Gaga. Quite often she seems to want to hide away… her hair, her masks, her veilings betray a very high interest in hiding, in concealing… Even her use of umbrellas, when outside it is sunny…!? And the fact that quite often she hides her face behind her hand, when photographed (as if she is guilty of something, almost like Adam in the famous painting by Masaccio “Adam and Eve banished from Paradise”), does show the same thing… and the meaning of her video Paparazzi seems to be the same: an intense almost neurotic questioning of the violation of privacy that contemporary life seems to be unable to avoid. She probably does not want to end like Princess Diana or like the main character of Das Parfum. But the price of fame is high, quite often! Sometimes tragically high!
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February 5

Bari Airport Nursery school and recreation center

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(Materials courtesy of Laboratorio Permanente)

The Bari Airport Nursery school is shaped as a little child-scale world, a new landmark for the airport area and Bari itself. Furthermore, the nursery project is equipped with an advanced technology system which allows it to be energy-autonomous.
The project’s concept was inspired by the intrinsic scale contrast between a nursery and an international airport: an intimate space confronting with a monumental space of exchange. Read more

February 1

Yearbook Magazine on Architizer

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Better late than never, we finally subscribed to Architizer, the social network for architects, firms, and architectural projects. The site was officially launched a few months ago with partners such as Cool Hunting, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and Abitare.

As you can see, the design is simple and slick. The tabs are few and well located, which makes surfing the site easy and clean, and intuitive search is a major usability factor. A notable feature are the filtering handles, to narrow down search ranges in terms of budget, year of completion, and other parameters. The map showing project previews by location in the homepage is definitely a nice web3.0 twist, and there is also a Facebook-style Archifeed to follow the people and firms you want. Users can also submit competition and job offers, which makes using the site even more practical and useful. Read more

January 18

The Self Assigned Photographer. Farewell to Dennis Stock

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American photo journalist Dennis Stock, also renowned for shooting some of the most famous portraits of celebrities like Audrey Hepburn and James Dean, has died last week. See a tribute video at Magnum Photos.

December 23

Panic Attack! Is sci-fi going global?

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(Text by Nicola Bozzi)

As you might have read somewhere (like here, here or here), Uruguayan filmmaker Fede Alvarez has just signed a deal with Sam Raimi’s Ghost House Pictures for a future feature sci-fi movie. Raimi was impressed by a short clip Alvarez created and posted on YouTube (see video above), immediately becoming a hit on the video-sharing platform. AtaqueDePànico shows some giant robots attacking the city of Montevideo and destroying all its landmarks, eventually exploding and reducing everything to rubble in a surprisingly good FX spree.

Little else happens in the short movie, which has nonetheless been compared to Neill Blomkamp’s Alive in Joberg, the one that eventually led to District 9. Which one is better and YouTube’s exact role in hi-jacking the attention of the Hollywood industry’s talent scouts are debates I’ll leave for other occasions. What I’m really curious about is: where will Alvarez’s feature film be set?
As we’ve seen before, Peter Jackson’s support to District 9 has been rather invisible and not patronizing, allowing Blomkamp’s movie to become an unprecedented example of sci-fi imagery going global and enriching itself with unexpected locations and social actuality. Seeing Johannesburg taking the place of New York as the theater of human-alien confrontation was one of the reasons why I think the movie is significant: it was also an opportunity to legitimate the ascension of local geographies to the status of global imagery. Read more

December 16

MIND: 11 Milan design schools in the net

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MIND: 11 scuole di design milanesi in rete

Un’alleanza tra 11 scuole di design milanesi, promossa dal Comune di Milano insieme con ADI, Triennale Design Museum e Alintec.

L’iniziativa, battezzata MIND Milan Network Design, vuole proporre Milano a livello internazionale come polo di formazione al design: saranno disponibili oltre 200 borse di studio, con un investimento complessivo di 3,2 milioni di euro, per la partecipazione a Master organizzati dalle scuole aderenti.

Ecco le scuole che fanno parte del network, con i Master previsti dall’iniziativa:

* Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, New Media Art Design
* Fondazione Accademia di Comunicazione, Brand design and Strategy
* Domus Academy, Interaction Design
* IED Istituto Europeo di Design, Product Design
* Istituto Superiore Architettura e Design, design Materials
* Libera Università delle Arti, Lighting Design
* Milano Fashion Institute, Fashion and Design Retail
* NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Interior Design
* POLI.design, Yacht Design
* Politecnico di Milano, New Tech-Style Design
* Scuola Politecnica di Design, Visual design

Il programma comprende anche l’organizzazione, insieme con la triennale, di un ciclo di conferenze aperte al pubblico sul design, tenute da esperti internazionali.

MIND viene presentata da Letizia Moratti, sindaco di Milano, Davide Rampello, presidente della Triennale di Milano, Luisa Bocchietto, presidente nazionale ADI, Luigi Rossi Bernardi, assessore alla Ricerca, innovazione e capitale umano del Comune di Milano, con la condivisione degli assessori comunali Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, Massimiliano Orsatti, Giovanni Terzi.

Al termine della presentazione Andrea Branzi, curatore del Triennale Design Museum, terrà una conferenza sul tema “Il design a Milano”.

bandiera ingleseMilan Municipality in co-operation with ADI, Triennale Design Museum and Alintec promote the network MIND to stress the city role as an international training pole for design. More than 200 scholarships – 3, 2 million euros invested – will be granted to attend Masters in the school and universities which have joined the programme.  MIND includes a series of lectures by international design authorities open to public audience. The initiative will be presented tomorrow by Milan mayor, Letizia Moratti;  Davide Rampello, Triennale director, Luisa Bocchietto,  ADI national director, Luigi Rossi Bernardi, Milan spokesman for Research, Innovation and human capital, together with the town councillors Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, Massimiliano Orsatti, and Giovanni Terzi. A lecture by Andrea Branzi, Triennale Design Museum main curator on the theme “Design in milan” will follow.

MIND presentation
Triennale Design Museum
Teatro Agorà
Viale Alemagna, 6
Milan
h 11 am

November 24

House in Canobbio by Davide Macullo Architects

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(All images courtesy of Davide Macullo Architects)

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Nestled on the Alpine slopes north of Lugano, this house is characterised by a volumetric architecture that emerges from the terrain and follows the natural contour of the land. Its constructed volumes embrace the land in an organic and fluent sequence of spaces, each relating to each other and to the surrounding landscape. In order to communicate an identity and a language to the inhabitants, the project has a strong and precise form, its clearly identifiable geometric structure delimits an organised development of spaces. Carved in a clear square geometry, the spaces meet the slope and extend in a spiral, fluent movement that continuously changes the perception of the space and its relationship to the exterior, offering striking panoramic views across the hinterland and to Lake Lugano. Read more

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