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27/52
2012
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Rive d'Arcano
Gianugo Polesello, Villa C.M.
Gianugo Polesello is one of the most interesting
(and most difficult to understand) Italian XXth
Century architects.
This villa is one of his best works. Here some more
images: http://www.flickriver.com/.../fot...
/sets/72157603507047023/

Unfortunately, it is not easy to find materials
(especially on-line) on him and his work. We will
have to go visit this house.
Thanks to Adelaide Testa for the link.
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Kyiv
The Raft of the Medusa
"They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in
seeking worlds."
(Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)
http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa
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U10
Your Twitter Stories in a
Book
Here a very nice project, taking full shape.
Looking forward to see next steps
http://www.tweet-book.it/
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Two Artists I Like...
There was this birthday party. And I was lucky
enough to sit between two of the Italian artists I
like the most, two very simpatico chaps.
I was so happy, I wanted to take a picture to
celebrate this nice event. To the left you can see
Simeone Crispino (aka as one half of
Vedovamazzei), to the right is Enrico De Paris.
Life can be sweet (and Italian artists dress in
uniform).
More about Vedovamazzei at: http:
//vedovamazzei.com/w/
More about Enrico De Paris at: http://www.
enricotdeparis.net/
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@bghella Party
The other day, it was Barbara Ghella's birthday.
Ms. Puri organized a grand dinner in the beautiful
piazza del Carmine. Lots of guests, lots of drinks,
lots of instagrammers, lots of music, lots of lots...
@home piazza del carmine.
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Night
Another link provided by Antonio Scarponi. This
time we have Antonio Marchetti, an interesting
painter based in Rimini.
Here you can see some of his works (the series:
"counry & city"): http://www.antoniomarchetti.
it/country-and-city/
Antonio says that if you stop by in Rimini, to go for
a visit is something surely worth
In the image above: Night, 2007.
Rimini
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Angelo Mangiarotti
Baranzate. Leggiti al riguardo il racconto di Davide
(Vargas) nei Racconti di Architettura, Pironti.
Angelo Mangiarotti died yesterday in Milan.
As we can read (as headline of his website):
"Happiness comes from correctness".
http://www.studiomangiarotti.com/home.php?
lang=it&tipo=&id=
In the image above, the Mater Misericordiae
church in Baranzate (Angelo Mangiarotti, Bruno
Morassutti - with Aldo Favini for the structures),
1956/1958.
More images at: http://www.facebook.
com/media/set/...
1921/2012, Baranzate
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The Toaster Project
One of the nice things of my trip to the Akademie
Schloss Solitude, was to meet Thomas Thwaites,
the author of the well-know "Toaster Project".
Very nice project, very nice lad. Now busy into his
new project (to build the house of the future, if I
understood correctly).
Here are the links you need:
The Toaster Project page: http://www.
thomasthwaites.com/the-toaster-project/
The book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Toast...
/dp/1568989970/ref=sr_1_1...
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Brindisi
A Regasification Plant and a
New Landscape
A very nice project by Alessandro Scandurra
(2009/2010).
Finally, the whole thing (the industrial bit and the
new landscape bit) arrived to a stop and was never
done. But it could be that finally we will see it
built.
Who knows?
More images at: http://www.scandurrastudio.
com/works.htm
(click on: Parco delle Energie, Brindisi).
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Palazzolo Acreide
Museo dell'Informatica
funzionante (Museum of
Functioning Computer
Science)
Here, one of the multiple activities where
Gabriele Asbesto Molesto Zaverio is the main
character.
A fantastic museum between Catania and Siracusa.
http://museo.freaknet.org/
(the link is in Italian, but you should find an
automatic translator because it is worth)
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Palazzolo Acreide
Gabriele "Asbesto Molesto"
Zaverio, The sandbender
He lives in a dammuso in the heart of Sicily.
He does all kind of different things. But the thing
he likes the most is to build computer in wood.
He is the founder of Radio Cybernet (the first
italian streaming-only internet radio), the
FreakNet MediaLab in Catania (first free public
Unix lab where people can have a shell account
and use internet, also the first hacklab in Italy),
and the Poetry HackLab in Palazzolo Acreide.
He is also a filmmaker and a musician. He made
some short and long films many years ago, and
also Ihemade very weird and strange music.
Last but not least, he recently wrote a book about
Haiku, Koan, Zen stories and other things.
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New York, NY, United States
D-Crit: #platform
A new collaboratively produced publication has
been devised by architecture and design writer
Mimi Zeiger, designer Neil Donnelly, and students
of the recent SVA Design Criticism Department's
(D-Crit) Design Writing and Research Summer
Intensive.
Keep reading the article on Domus magazine: http:
//www.domusweb.it/en/news/d-crit-platform/
Very nice idea, indeed!
Also, thanx to Lucy Giuliano for the link!
Here you have link #1: http://freaknet.
org/asbesto/
Here you have link #2: http://zaverio.org/
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Catania
FreakNet MediaLab
This FreakNet MediaLab is another very special
place.
It's a community, it's a research center, is a place
where a lot of curious people are busy doing all
kind of projects.
http://www.freaknet.org
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreakNet
For instance, it is the place where it was
developed the Netsukuku peer-to-peer routing
system.
http://netsukuku.freaknet.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netsukuku
Thanx to Antonio Scarponi for the link.
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Istituto Marchiondi
Brutalism for Kids
It is a masterpiece of Italian architecture from the
1957.
It was a juvenile detention center, but it was
designed and built with a totally new vision. Fluid
space, open environments. For those times it was
a revolution (it would be even more today).
Currently abandoned, waiting for a restoration.
Very special, indeed.
Here some images of the building: http://www.
flickr.com/photos/ingridbd/4648074009/
Thanx to Andrea Balestrero for the link.
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Vietri sul Mare
Paolo Soleri's Factory
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Firenze,italy
Leonardo Ricci's House
"It would perhaps be best if everybody could build
their own house and if children could be taught
to lay bricks in the same way as they learn to
speak."
(Leonardo Ricci)
Read this very nice article and you'll get a lot of
interesting thoughts (and images): http://www.
domusweb.it/.../leonardo-ricci-fluid-spaces/
Thanks to Adelaide Testa for the link.
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Emilia and Photographies
Once we are at Villaggio Artigiano Ovest in
Modena, we shouldn't miss to meet William
Guerrieri.
He is a photographer and he did a very interesting
work on the Village:
http://www.comune.modena.it/.../att...
/villaggiogiardino.htm
Apart from that, he knows a lot about
contemporary landscapes, photography, Emilia
Romagna
Here above, an image from: "Oggi nessuno pu
dirsi neutrale" series (1998).
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MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Boetti goes to New York.
Here above: Alighiero Boetti. Autoritratto (Self-
portrait). 1993.
Link to Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan: http://www.
moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1238
Very interesting to read in the website that: "The
exhibition is made possible by the generous
support of two anonymous donors".
Very Boetti, indeed. Not one anonymous donor.
No. Two.
A & B
Some of the works on show: http://www.moma.
org/m/tours/EN/tours/320.iphone_ajax
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Catania Via Plebiscito
Horsemeat (on the Street)
One of the nice features of Catania are the
trattoria on the street where you are served
delicious horse-meat all night long. They started
as "macelleria" (butcher), they they started to
cook and serve meat on the spot, next they added
a table outside, then some more tables
Finally, you go there from late afternoon till
morning, and there are various streets filled with
tables, food, people, smoke and all the rest.
The head as an electric resistance inside,
henceforth it it always hot. So he needs to keep
pouring water to refresh it. Once the water hits
the head, a lot of smoke (steam) is produced.
One of the most fantastic works by Alighiero
Boetti. Not by chance it is a self-portrait...
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MUMOK - Museum moderner Kunst Wien
Positive Tension
The fancy opening of the fashion show. Lots of
people. Then, all sudden, a big gun on the balcony
starts to shoot thousand questions to the crowd
below.
Another fantastic performance by Apparatus 22.
People say that there is a direct link between the
illegal horse races (another famous feature of
Catania) and these open restaurants: when
something goes wrong in the races, the unlucky
horse gets a second life, bringing him all the way
into my dish...
Anyway, the kind waiter told us that next time (if
we want), he will give us the needed info to go to
watch one of these infamous races (more will
follow on this...)
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Trebisacce
Felice Gualtieri's Orchard
Felice Gualtieri is a very fine designer. He does a
lot of stuff here and there. But one very special
thing is his orchard.
Bravibravi!
Here the link to some more images: http://www.
facebook.com/media/set/
Official link of the exhibition at MUMOK: http:
//www.mqw.at/en/program/detail/?
event_id=7073
And here some more: http://sof.mqw.at/...
/15/die-nacht-der-fliegenden-polkadots/
I love Apparatus 22 work.
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Bergamo
Fantasie Macabre(s)
Paolo Vincenzo Bonomini, an Italian artist who
decorated many civic and religious buildings and is
best known for his "Fantasie Macabres," a series of
scenes depicting living skeletons (see above),
which was commissioned by a parish in Bergamo,
his hometown.
He produced 6 paintings as part of the series,
many of them featuring recognizable caricatures
of well-known townsfolk; another (guess which?)
serves as a skeletal self-portrait.
He shared some images with us and here we are.
Once the GranTour is in Calabria, a stop to
Trebisacce is quite given
Here a link to one of his nicest projects: http:
//www.criticalgarden.com/wpcg2/?p=18
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Morgantina
Roadscape
A day spent going around inner Sicily. Very special
landscape unknown to most people. Very nice,
indeed!
They are housed in the church of Santa Grata
church, in Bergamo.
Keep reading at: http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.
com/.../fantasie-macabres
Thanks to Legrenzi Susanna for the link...
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Pietraperzia
Boomboom Architecture
"Student journeys which were important to me
were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw
these buildings, and that is where you're able to
grasp what things mean."
(Ben Nicholson)
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Acquaviva Collecroce
Six Fountains and a (Mute)
Church
The GranTouristas project now enters a new
phase. Not only we are listing and describing all
the most interesting place to see in Italy in the
year 2012. Also, we are marking down who are the
people to meet.
For instance, here we are on the balcony of
Cristina Senatore house. She is waiting for us to
show us her works and to explain us some more
about this curious place on top of Appenine
mountains
Thanx Cristina.
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Fontanellato
A Labyrinth (the Biggest One
in the World)
It is a project started by Franco Maria Ricci in
2004. It should be finished in 2013, but it isn't
sure.
Helped by Davide Dutto and Pier Carlo Bontempi it
follows a promise made by FMR to the late Borges.
Anyway, it is going to be the biggest labyrinth in
the world: thirty bamboo species for more thank
three kilometers where to get lost. Stanley
Kubrick and Stephen King would surely love it.
Some more (in Italian), here: http://parma.
repubblica.it/.../perdersi_nel_labirinto.../1/
Thanx to Daniele Mancini for the link.
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Foligno
Maurizio Cancelli, the
Shaman
In the small village of Cancelli (near Foligno),
there is a man called Maurizio Cancelli (easy to
remember). He is a shaman, he is an artist, an
educator and lots of other things.
Andrea Balestrero gave us the link. A very special
place to go to meet some very special people.
Every summer they have workshops and all kind of
activities to join. Here is the link: http://www.
viaindustriae.it/
Here another link (in Italian): http://www.flickr.
com/photos/buferanera/68...
The image above is related to Manufatto in situ 6,
workshop by Raqs Media Collective. Curated by
Emanuele De Donno, design by Mal Veisse.
Installation design by VIAINDUSTRIAE.
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Palo Alto, CA, United States
Udacity
From their website:
"We believe university-level education can be both
high quality and low cost. Using the economics of
the Internet, we've connected some of the
greatest teachers to hundreds of thousands of
students all over the world."
Here the link: http://www.udacity.com/
Thanks to Gioia Guerzoni for the link...
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Catania
Benedictine Monastery of San
Nicola l'Arena
It is an impressive complex, the second biggest
monastery in the world. The construction of the
actual architecture started in 1558 and it was
finished (with a project by Giancarlo De Carlo) in
2004. I've spent half of a day wondering around
and I have seen about 1/4 of what I was supposed
to see.
Extremely impressive, indeed!
Here some of the images I took there: http:
//www.facebook.com/media/set/
Here some more on Wikipedia (Italian version):
http://it.wikipedia.org/...
/Monastero_di_San_Nicol%C3%B2
Founding a monastery is a continuous process of
sawing to build your design and trying to dispose
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of the sawdust, while you're always being forced
to reconstruct. You have to give it your all and it's
never done."
(Saint Benedict)