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 8

Costruire secondo natura

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

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.

December 1

9 architetti x 9 paesaggi italiani
Project slideshow video

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Here’s a slideshow video showing projects featured in the 9 architetti x 9 paesaggi italiani exhibition curated by Luca Molinari.

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

November 18

From yskira.com to ymag.it

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One year ago we launched the first issue of The Skira Yearbook of World Architecture. It was a unique editorial and cultural initiative which, I think, suffered for the unlucky economical and historical moment it was released.
In the same days we timidly started the YSkira blog, to support the Yearbook publication and, at the same time, to create an online tool giving us new opportunities for research, international networking, and critical confrontation with the most active and experimental blogs.

In the following months – and under the pressure of the devastating effects of the economical slump – the paper project was progressively brought to a halt, while the blog gained more and more energy and connections. It was probably the future smartly pushing the past away, but maybe it’s too early to tell.

Anyway, our blog has recently become one-year-old and and it’s been growing together with us. We want it to be an open, transversal, strongly critical and receptive medium, able to short-circuit architecture, design, interior, photography, arts and contemporary critique. Along with its first birthday comes the first little graphical and conceptual restyling, along with a new autonomy.

Today yskira.com becomes ymag.it, a platform with a wider scope and a more radical and critical grasp on architecture and design.

We think these disciplines are going through a difficult period, for what concerns both contents and means, and that most of the research and experimental results we come cross are still waiting for a proper reading. Our society is expressing wishes and formulating questions that these creative fields are hardly able to answer. Maybe we’re living the dawn of a new era we can hardly even perceive. Probably a medium like the blog – with its essential freedom of content and cooperative spirit – is one of the realest and most interesting answers to our times.

Y Magazine is born to be curious, critical, and relentless, and we’d like you to help us make it even more radical and perceptive of the most compelling issues around built environments and living tools. In the future, in order to respect both Yearbook’s original selective attitude and the cosmopolitan and collaborative spirit of the blog medium, we would like to involve our readers more directly – through surveys and polls, for example – and have you share your opinions and projects even more. Let’s find out together what the most challenging projects and ideas in our future are.

In occasion of ymag.it’s launch, I’d like to thank all the people who have cooperated with us (like Ilaria Mazzoleni and Ethel Barona Pohl), contributing with their valuable content and personal research in making yskira.com a sharper tool, plus all the readers and bloggers who have been using our website daily or linked it in their homepages or bookmarks. Thanks are also due to Angelica Di Virgilio and Simona Galateo, and in particular I thank Nicola Bozzi and Milena Sacchi for managing, supervising and coordinating this project since the beginning, with passion and dedication.

Luca Molinari

November 10

Luca Molinari to be chief curator of the Italian Pavilion @ 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice

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CONGRATS LUCA!!!! A huge hug and good luck from your crew!

After the high spirits of the director appointment to Kazuyo Sejima (a woman at last!) we’re proud and honoured to announce our Luca Molinari will be the chief curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition to be held in Venice between 29th August and 21st November 2010 (vernissage expected on 26th, 27th and 28th August). Here’s following yesterday evening official press release by the Italian Ministry for Arts and Culture:

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Il Ministro per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Sandro Bondi, rende noto che ha avviato le procedure necessarie alla nomina di Luca Molinari a curatore del Padiglione Italia della 12. Mostra Internazionale d’Architettura organizzata dalla Fondazione la Biennale di Venezia.

Nato nel 1966, Luca Molinari si laurea presso la Facoltà di Architettura di Milano nel 1992 dopo un periodo di lavoro e studio trascorso presso la Facoltà di Architettura–TU Delft /Olanda (1989) e l’ETSAB di Barcellona/Spagna(1990-92). È Professore Associato di Storia dell’architettura Contemporanea presso la Seconda Facoltà di Architettura “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Napoli.

Incaricato negli ultimi anni degli allestimenti e la curatela di diversi eventi legati al mondo dell’architettura contemporanea tra cui: Le forme del cibo (Milano, 1996), Stalker (Milano, 1996), Santiago Calatrava. Work in Progress (Milano,1998-99), Effetti Collaterali (Milano, 2002), Medaglia d’oro per l’architettura italiana (Milano, Napoli, Roma, Singapore e Guang-Zhou, 2004-05), Piero Portaluppi (Milano, 2004), Antinapoli (con Cherubino Gambardella, Vincenzo Trione, Francesco Jodice e Fabrizia Ippolito, Napoli, 2005), 20.06. Annali dell’architettura (Napoli, 2006), 20.07 Annali dell’architettura (Napoli, 2007); Sustainab.Italy.An overview on contemporary Italian architecture (con Alessandro D’Onofrio, Londra, 2008; Singapore 2009); Check-in-architecture (Congresso UIA Torino; Biennale architettura,Venezia, 2008) Environments and Counterenvironments : Experimental media in Italy. The New Domestic Landscape  MoMA 1972 (con Peter Lang e Mark Wasiuta, New York, 2009);  Dreaming Milano (Milano, 2009); 12xMilano (Milano, 2009).

Tra il 2001 e il 2004 è responsabile scientifico per l’architettura e l’urbanistica della Triennale di Milano e membro del comitato scientifico per cui, tra l’altro, ha ideato e curato la prima edizione della Medaglia d’Oro all’Architettura Italiana (2003) e la prima edizione della Festa per l’Architettura (2004).

Ha ricevuto dalla X Biennale di Architettura di Venezia il Premio Ernesto Nathan Rogers per la critica e la comunicazione d’architettura (2006) e il Jean Tschumi UIA prize per la critica architettonica (2008).

Roma, 9 novembre 2009

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October 27

Tadao Ando – Museums
Book presentation

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Skira is pleased to invite you to the presentation of the book Tadao Ando – Museums, edited by Luca Molinari, on Thursday October 29 at 6.30 pm, at Triennale di Milano (via Alemagna 6).

Along with the editor, Gae Aulenti and Giancarlo Calza will also participate in the presentation.

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September 29

Capita Selecta Streetworks @ Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam

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