- Belgrade Workshop Belgrade. Capturing the breath of the white city. An experience of collaborative urban survey. The workshop will allow the students to develop a specific personal exercise, but it is aimed at the coordinated production of a common outcome, adopting an independent / social media attitude to report our exploration of Belgrade. No object better than […]
- Bad TV – Moscow
- Narkomfin inspired The Narkomfin building was acknowledged by Le Corbusier as an influence on his Unité d’Habitation . the layout of its duplex apartments have been copied by Moshe Safdie in his Expo 67 flats, as well as by Denys Lasdun in his luxury flats at St James’, London.
- RKM_SPOT RKM_SAVE URBAN HERITAGE An international campaign for the preservation of Constructivist Architecture in Moscow is lead by Moskonstruct.
- Leaving Moscow… We left Moscow with good feelings… we stepped into a very interesting subject and came back with renewed curiosity and enthousiasm to go forward in our project (s). The first impact with Moscow has been tough and puzzling, the impression was of an hostile and repulsive city, too big, too noisy, too competitive… and difficult […]
- novosel’e The process of moving into a new apartment, the novosel’e, exists as a distinct genre of Stalinist Socialist realist Mythology. It is endlessy retold in magazines, newspapers and movie clips. A typical move plot consists of the family of a deserving worker, usually a Stakhanovite, moving with its belongings old and new into a gleaning […]
- L’aménagement du territoire 173 Pour la première fois une architecture nouvelle, qui à chaque époque antérieure était réservée à la satisfaction des classes dominantes, se trouve directement destinée aux pauvres. La misère formelle et l’extension gigantesque de cette nouvelle expérience d’habitat proviennent ensemble de son caractère de masse, qui est impliquée à la fois par sa destination et […]
- July I5th, I972 Charles Jencks dates the symbolic end of modernist architecture and the passage to the post-modem as 3:32 p. m. on July I5th, I972, when the Pruitt-Igoe housing development (a version of Le Corbusier’s “machine for modem living”) was dynamited as an unlivable environment for the low-income people it housed. Shortly thereafter, President Nixon officially declared […]
- 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 […]