I - I am the Lord your God. You shall not have strange gods before me.

II - You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.

III - Remember to keep holy the Lord’s Day.

IV - Honor your father and mother.

V - YOU SHALL NOT KILL.

VI - You shall not commit adultery.

VII - You shall not steal.

VIII - You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

IX - You

A considerable part of the world is celebrating a birth supposedly occurred 2006 years ago. That very part is paradoxically having less and less babies, and as an apprentice parent I realize how the society around me does not facilitate my role. It’s so crazy how the more you could afford having and raising children, the less you give birth. Probably I’m saying nothing new when you think how “proletarian” was an insult coined to define people whose only richness were their children. I believe th... leggi

Silenzio.

ESTRAGONE Dove andiamo?
VLADIMIRO Non lontano.
ESTRAGONE No, no, andiamocene lontano di qui!
VLADIMIRO Non si può.
ESTRAGONE Perché?
VLADIMIRO Bisogna tornare domani.
ESTRAGONE A far che?
VLADIMIRO Ad aspettare Godot.
ESTRAGONE Già, è vero. (Pausa). Non è venuto?
VLADIMIRO No.
ESTRAGONE E’ ormai troppo tardi.
VLADIMIRO Si, è notte.
ESTRAGONE E se lo lasciassimo perdere? (Pausa). Se ... leggi

You don’t make art, you are art. Or death.

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Architecture is like a beautiful woman, it should be nude, sculptural in its innermost structural forms, perfectly true, with the self-confidence of explicit sexuality.
But the open senses of the contemporary nomadic populations experience these sonic influences as magnetic, fatal siren songs, sweet and tragic, seductive and pitiless, drowning dreams of passionate coitus in the oblivion of the metropolitan billows.
Erotic shipwrecks of techno-pop surfers cast away on an archipelago... leggi

Non ne posso più di sentir parlare di giovani architetti! E’ un vizio tutto italiano quello di considerare giovani persino gli ultracinquantenni, come se si volesse rimandare il più a lungo possibile quel naturale processo di assunzione di responsabilità che è proprio degli adulti. La grande distinzione pasoliniana tra padri e figli (per indole), in una nazione permissiva e calorosa come una mamma, tende a farci rimanere tutti figli cercando sempre all’esterno interventi paterni risolutivi. Una ... leggi

Cooking is the only genteel way to penetrate hungry bodies. Generosity is expressed through an availability toward others that transcends good culinary practice, lending oneself voluntarily as an object of cannibalism. Specialties for ritual feasts or corporate cafeterias, often unknowingly consumed, but necessary and inevitable for the continuation of the species. Morsels of self that attempt to fill the stomach with food for the soul. In short, you have to let yourself be eaten.

Lo si può chiamare bar, cafè, osteria, ma probabilmente ci si riferisce sempre allo stesso luogo: l'incubatrice della cultura dal '900 ai giorni nostri.
Trovandosi ad incorniciare strade o piazze, ha risposto all'invasione automobilistica dello spazio pubblico offrendo ristoro e complicità.
Il grado alcolico, l'atmosfera fumosa, il calore dei corpi lo hanno reso il rifugio ideale per astrazioni spazio-temporali.
Ogni "ismo" che si rispetti ha visto la luce davanti a un... leggi

2/3 della superficie terrestre sono coperti d’acqua
2,5 % dell’acqua del nostro pianeta non è salata
1400 milioni di km cubi d’acqua sul nostro pianeta
0,08 % di tutta l’acqua della terra è a disposizione degli essere umani
70 % dell’acqua disponibile viene utilizzata in agricoltura
17 % in più dell’acqua oggi disponibile sarà necessaria nel 2020 per dissetare i popoli
27 % dell’Italia è a rischio desertificaz... leggi

Palladio and I have never really gotten along.
I always thought he was too provincial, moralistic, conservative, though he does have one point in his favor: he never set foot on an airplane.
I’d like to take him with me and show him, nearly 5 centuries later, the great influence he has had on a big young country like America.
He could definitely get a green card for artistic merit, seeing how often he’s been used as a stylistic reference across the entire US territory, inclu... leggi

L'oro non è un colore. L'oro è materia, la più nobile.
Persino nelle applicazioni più superficiali si fa uso di piccolissime lamine chiamate "foglia", come alberi nel giardino di Re Mida.
E' interessante come tutte le sue caratteristiche performative si siano piegate ad un uso quasi esclusivamente estetico.
Una materia schiava della sua bellezza, una Marylin col cervello di Einstein.
Ma devo ammettere di essere anche io schiavo della bellezza, specialmente in... leggi

David Bowie is the perfect synthesis of all oddities that a non "Waiting for Godot" man should have. His eyes of different colours are the symbol of a multiracial society, and his innate underground spirit together with his mainstream communication ability, make him the perfect example of creative effectiveness. "The Man Who Fell to Earth" has been able for a lifetime to be balanced with his feet in the mud and his head among the stars.
David himself says: "Had Seu Jorge not recorded... leggi

This is how to save more families than you could ever save with a sermon. There’s nothing shameful about showing passion in a world that’s falling asleep. It’s a war we are fighting to make people start falling in love again, with no casualties except for the common sense of modesty. Architecture is the last medium that reminds us we are made of flesh and blood, that at the end of all things there we are, surrounded by matter, by people we can touch, hug, take to bed. Goodnight…
At any ca... leggi

If you remain closed in a room to open windows to the world, at least practice climbing over the windowsill.

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Sometimes I wonder how it’s possible to be so immature toward all our responsibilities. We are living self indulgent times where there’s always an excuse for any bad behaviour regarding ourselves. I live in a country where only geographical reasons avoided us from an argentinian-like bankrupt. After too many years of populism, this should be a moment to be serious and people just don’t want to accept it. How is it possible that in a country where it’s certain that the majority of citizens don’t ... leggi

Mandelbrot said: “nomads by choice, pioneers by necessity”, in this condition of nomadic survival my home is inevitably my body. With all the logical results: “every philosophy must be portable” and “whatever you do not require will kill you” (respectively Paul Valery and an old Tuareg proverb). I often imagine myself walking, with my backpack of responsibilities, shedding possible individual tears in the downpour of common regret. I believe that intelligent environments can only spring from int... leggi