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 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 11

BETWEEN TRADITION AND INNOVATION: A SUCCESSFUL BALANCE

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(By Angelica Di Virgilio)

New Technical Services Center building for the Perugia Municipality
HOF

In the very historically-documented Italian reality the relationship between new interventions and what is preexisting has always been particularily problematic. These theme has animated post-war debates, especially in the 50s, when the urgency to rebuild was replaced by the need to limit the damage and ugliness brought by building speculation in the name of that emergency. Despite the appeals of the conscious architectural class in favor of a rational balance between the need for “new” and preservation, this last current eventually prevailed and relegated the first to areas of new urban expansion, while leaving downtowns more and more exclusively bound to superintendences. The result of such “abandonement” is still an open debate far from reaching a solution.

The city of Perugia has nonetheless represented an exception in this national context. Right in its very artistically and historically connoted reality, between the end of the 40s and the 50s, we witness an opening to instances of “modernity” in full respect of historical continuity. This was mostly due to the municipality’s technical office and engineer Giuseppe Grossi’s work. Such opening is still visible today in the city’s fabric and is also exemplified by recent interventions like the Palazzo Grossi expansion project by the HOF studio.

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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

January 21

Cracking Art Group invades Treviso. Charity auction

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(All materials courtesy of Cracking Art Group)

Consorzio Per Mio Figlio presents Treviso Cracking Art Regeneration, an alliance event betwen contemporary art and solidarity in favour of the paediatric ward of Treviso hospital. Artworks by Cracking Art Group will be put up for auction on tuesday January 26, at 8 pm. The proceeds will be donated to buy two important pieces of medical equipment for Treviso’s younger patients. A minum of Euro 50 grant is requested to join the benefit dinner. Download the invitation. Read more

January 19

Aldo Lanzini – Dopo le cause, prima delle conseguenze

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Aldo Lanzini @ Triennale Bovisa Milano
from February 3 to 28 – dal 3 al 28 febbraio
Opening on Tuesday February 2, h.6.30pm – Inaugurazione martedi 2 febbraio dalle 18.30

Aldo Lanzini’s exhibition is the first of a series of shows, workshops, and events curated by do-knit-yourself and taking place at Triennale Bovisa from February to June 2010.

Together with crocket hook pieces conceived around the theme of identity in costruction, already shown in the photographic version during the Dritto-Rovescio exhibition in March 2009, Lanzini also presents a series of multi-media pieces (drawing, sewing, writing, photography, music and video) some of which have been realized for the occasion. In the spirit of Triennale Bovisa’s activities, where exhibitions become ateliers, during the show (February 2010) the artist and do-knit-yourself will hold Talking Hands, a few open workshops on manual tecniques. Read more

January 12

Darsena Milano – Reclaiming public space in Milan’s former harbor

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#01. DARSENA_LA NUOVA MILANO
Viola Varotto, Maria Pina Usai, Massimo Pisati, Arianna Forcella, Margherita Fenati, Giuseppe Fanizza

Last week we talked to you about MilanoCittàAperta, a photography experiment to reclaim the city of Milan from a different point of view. Today we present you another project taking place in the Italian city.

DarsenaMilano is a series of workshops, aimed at finding new ways of making the best of a public space, the Darsena, which has been rather left on its own by the public administration in recent times.

For those of you who don’t know, the Darsena was built as Milan’s inner harbor, and it was once a busy commercial node before its function was limited to irrigation. The area, being the meeting point of the city’s canals, is also a vibrant and lively public space. As you can see from the videos, the area is now the victim of spontaneous vegetation and has not yet taken a new form. Read more

December 14

ventisettetrentasette – rassegna internazionale di giovani architetti romani

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November 30

L’architettura italiana è un frammento di paesaggio!

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(Text by Luca Molinari and Angelica Di Virgilio)

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Il lavoro di nove autori dell’architettura italiana contemporanea come frammenti attivi del nostro paesaggio. Questo è il punto di partenza della mostra e, in fondo, la provocazione culturale che sottende questa iniziativa.
L’architettura, con la sua presenza fisica e la sua forza iconica, diventa, ogni volta, un nuovo frammento che può contribuire, o meno, al rafforzamento e al cambiamento del territorio in cui si inserisce. Ma non solo.
L’architettura contemporanea italiana, dopo almeno tre decenni di pesanti stravolgimenti delle coste, delle campagne e delle nostre città, ha una decisiva responsabilità culturale nell’indicare alcune, potenziali, strade da seguire nella ridefinizione di un paesaggio in cerca di una diversa identità. Read more

October 30

Resistenze. Momenti dell’Arte Contemporanea a Napoli.1 exhibit @ Hermann Nitsch Museum

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Resistenze. Momenti dell’Arte Contemporanea a Napoli.1
Hermann Nitsch Museum
Vico Lungo Pontecorvo 29/d
80135 Napoli
Tel. +39 081 5641655
Fax +39 081 5641494
info@museonitsch.org

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