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The Glass Ark. Renzo Piano’s California Academy of Sciences

Ilari Valbonesi @ July 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Renzo Piano’s new green museum, the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco is almost finished. Located in famous Golden Gate Park, and housing an aquarium, planetarium, and natural-history museum under two “hills” which are really a two-and-a-half-acre “living roof”, the building looks like a part of the park from some views.

As Piano […]

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AFTERVILLE. THE UNDERGROUND EXHIBITION

Luca @ June 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Linea 1 Metropolitana di Torino
13 giugno – 27 luglio 2008
La mostra AFTERVILLE. THE UNDERGROUND EXHIBITION rappresenta il momento culminante del cartellone di eventi di AfterVille. Tomorrow Comes Today. La rassegna è iniziata a ottobre 2007 con il take off di AfterVille. Astronave Torino al MIAAO, è proseguita a marzo con il successo di […]

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Space Time Play

Luca @ June 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Have you ever wondered what’s behind a perfect Tetris-wall?
Have you ever freed a 3D world from terrorists?
Have you ever made polygon friends in networked fantasy realms?
And do you know what happens when these games never end?
The richly illustrated texts in “Space Time Play” cover a wide range of gamespaces: from milestone video and computer games […]

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Marcos Novak and the AlloAtomic Transarchitectures

Luca @ April 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Look at video of this great conference with Marcos Novak and Bruce Sterling. It was organized by Share Festival on the 16th of march 2008.
Here you can read the text printed in the catalogue of the Share Festival:
“Canonical works were once heretical. Established species were once mutant. There is a deep relationship between how the […]

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Ettore Sottsass Radical Emotion Design

Ilari Valbonesi @ January 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Designer and architect Ettore Sottsass, the figurehead of 20th-century Italian design died on Monday aged 90, the ANSA news agency reported.
His rich longevity and sensitive soul brought him to cross many designs periods. In 1958 Sottsass worked as an industrial designer for ‘Olivetti’. He designed a variety of products such as calculators and typewriters. […]

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Luigi Ricuperati sul Junkspace

Luca @ December 11, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Ho intervistato Luigi Ricuperati, che ha appena pubblicato un racconto nell’antologia di Minimum Fax ‘Il corpo e il sangue d’Italia‘. A maggio, da Minimum Fax, uscirà il suo romanzo ‘Il mio impero è nell’aria’. E’ editor di Abitare.
Ho sentito cosa pensasse sul tema del junkspace, come metafora di una nuova tipologia di spazio architettonico […]

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MAU. Museo d’Arte Urbana nel Borgo delle Meraviglie

Ilari Valbonesi @ November 15, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Il MAU - Museo d’Arte Urbana di Torino è il primo progetto in fase di concreta realizzazione, in Italia, avente come scopo il dar vita ad un insediamento artistico permanente all’aperto collocato all’interno di un grande centro metropolitano, con il consenso ed il contributo fondamentale degli abitanti.
Il nucleo originario del MAU è sito nel Borgo […]

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Storytelling and Architecture

Luca @ November 7, 2007 # No Comment Yet

I attended the View Conferences today talk with Rodrigo J. Lopez, principal at Neoscape, an award winning visualization studio based out of Boston and New York, where he serves as creative and art director.
He explained the audience that both in gaming and filmmaking, as well as in the realm of digital architecture and visualization, […]

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