- The Rythmanalyst Lefebvre outlines a suggestive portrait of the future rhythmanalyst, which differs from that of the psychoanalyst. The rhythmanalyst is all ears. He listens not only to words, however, but to everything happening in the world. He hears things that are usually hardly noticed: noise and sound. He pays attention to the babble of voices, but […]
- Sensibility I want to suggest a different sensibility from the bureaucratic (or regulatory planning that dominated the twentieth century – a sensibility that is as alert to the emotional economies of the city as it is to the political economies; as alert to city senses (of sound, sight, touch, smell, taste) as to city census; as […]
- Marseille Here we want to underline the contrast between the prototype of an universally recognized architectural model, Le Corbusier’s Unitè d’Habitation, which today has become a high standard middle class residence, and the degeneration of such a model as expressed in the French banlieu, representing today the most dystopic, conflicted, defeating product of this ideology. Segregation, […]
- Berlin: Periphery at the centre The particular historical condition of Berlin, divided by walls and borders, wounded by wars and destructions, designed a city without form characterized by fractures and fragmentations, somehow denying the concept of periphery. In a city without form and without centre, periphery and centrality are questionable concepts. Up to the eighties the city has been the […]
- Alamar – La Habana It is the first step, a sort of number zero: “Doble Forza” is a pilot already realised with low budget and technical standard. Alamar, is a new city built in the 1970s in the outskirts of La Habana, mostly with rudimental prefabricated technologies inherited by the soviets; it has been put in place through self-costruction […]
- Alamar diario Disorientamento. Il paesaggio è spiazzante, le tipiche edificazioni ripetitive della periferia sono stemperate in una atmosfera rurale caraibica. Gli spazi vuoti e normalmente irrisolti, qui diventano giardini, orti, estensioni di lamiera. Alla serialità delle architetture risponde la personalizzazione attraverso il lavorio quotidiano degli abitanti. Le inferriate alle finestre di ferro battuto o di tondino da […]
- La Habana INT/EXT March 2006. Invited to attend to the Novena Bienal de La Habana, we spent five weeks in Cuba in spring 2006, preparing a live media performance to be presented in the context of the international art event. That provided the opportunity to explore a different incarnation of the late modernist periphery, which is a […]