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Miaw Papers. Writing Architecture
No full textFor architects, writing and publishing activities are, at least from Vitruvius’ times, extremely important. In architecture, the book always was and is an essential instrument of knowledge, of technical and cultural exchange, and often can be also something more, an artwork which acquires a relevance comparable with the built work, acting as a key work in the architectural scenario.
Nowadays, websites, social networks and blogs are dramatically changing the cultural frame of architecture and writing rises, for a huge number of architects, a constant and absorbing activity to be made on a daily base. Articles, discussions, chats, images of projects and buildings accompany every part of our daily and night time, of our work and domestic space. Writing, evolving in something o completely new and different, is again the main vector, a medium that is receiving a strong implementation exactly because of the overdevelopment of the electronic field which, on the other hand, is probably going to kill the traditional formats like books and magazines
Re-programming the Fast Changing City
No full textRegistering the complexity and the novelty of these phenomena, our School started the program “Re-Forming Milan”, a frame defined in accordance with the Council of Milan with the aim of gather the ateliers of architectural and urban design around some specific critical areas and sites of the city, looking for approaches and strategies which can dialogue with the real trends and processes. Used as a common platform for several activities, such as ordinary courses, seminars, master degree projects, workshops, “Re-Forming Milan” aims at the recognition of the value and potential of urban fabric and public spaces, through a descriptive approach in reading, decoding and contextually providing new opportunities, proposing projects at the different scales: interiors, architectural, urban design. For “Re-Forming Milan”, dismissed space and abandoned places, careless areas and brownfields, which use to be swamped places neglected by the official maps, become the paradigmatic examples of urban spaces which can be recovered with a new meaning, value and shape. These occupation, appropriation and activation actions often tend to draw, in the urban fabric, a minor geography capable of giving visibility and responses to the needs and forgotten desires of that part of the city which doesn’t participate at the shimmering Milanese Renaissance of the luxury apartments and multinational factories’ headquarters.
Participants to the Miaw workshop are invited to identify spaces in Milan that either have an unexpressed potentiality either lost their characteristics, importance for the community and have been, for several reasons, marginalized and excluded from everyday life. From the smallest corner to the large areas on the city margins, the Workshop wishes to illustrate possible scenarios of re-forming, capable to revitalize these dormant places. In a 21st Century that is overwhelmed by image, information and dynamism, it is particularly important for architects and policy makers to recognize and assume the special role of the creative recovery of forgotten spaces.
Adopting the vision and the technical guidelines of “Re-Forming Milan”, the Miaw workshops focused on some strategic sites located in the Eastern part of the city, facing very different urban conditions: deserted buildings in the densest urban environment, public spaces, industrial semi-abandoned settlements, brownfields
Performative Housing For Self-Sufficient Communities
No full textSurpassing the rhetoric of sustainable design, an ecological approach is needed to respond to the environmental
crisis and the effects of climate change on contemporary society. Therefore, this research investigates how to develop energy- and water-sufficient community housing for affordable solutions, evolve traditional bioclimatic design principles,
and integrate advanced methods in architecture. The results will be an innovative proposal for an information-based design process through an experimental approach at the scale of the collective housing
Architettura naturale
Full text linkRicerca sui temi della progettazione che utilizza materiali naturali grezzi, con un'indagine estesa al lavoro di architetti, artisti e designer di tutto il mondo
Questo non è un modello: il San Carlino di Lugano / This is not a model: the San Carlino of Lugano
No full textSaggio critico sul modello in scala del San Carlino di Borromini eseguito da Mario Botta a Lugan
Zona di contatto / Zone of Contact
No full textSaggio critico sul progetto di sistemazione di piazzale Cadorna a Milano, di Gae Aulenti con l'intervento di Claes Oldenbur
Il Tibet in mostra / Tibet on Display
No full textProgetto realizzato di Standard Architecture per un museo d'arte in Tibe
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