…is a massive Corbusian housing block designed by a team of Italian architects and built in 1972 in the southwestern outskirts of Rome – and I have recently become fascinated by stories of how residents have been gradually customizing and occupying it in unexpected ways – but departing from Fiumicino today I actually flew right ..
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…was where I studied architecture from 1990-91 and did my thesis with Aldo Rossi – and today (a typical cold rainy lovely mess) it was my special pleasure to go back and give a lecture at that place I had once been such a young eager foreigner – and the students today seem so much ..
…in the Venice sestiere of Cannaregio where I lived from 1990-91, was the highlight of my day, involving a visit back to my old street, Calle Riello, only to find that the lady who sold us fruits and vegetables around the corner was still there selling fruits and vegetables – so of course I introduced ..
…was really the only highlight for me this year – part of Archizoom, co-founder of the Domus Academy, provocative thinker, writer, philosopher, designer, activist and architect in the broadest sense, and in a way that just does not exist anymore, and perhaps only ever really emerged in Italy during a short post-war golden age of ..
…at least 500 years old, southeast of Florence, just up the hills of Bagno a Ripoli, right after the tiny village La Fonte is where I lived from 1993-94, and it is where I went today with my old Italian friend who I first met there, Katia, with her energetic six year old son Ottavio ..
…is beginning to pop up – obviously enjoying the alternating sunny and rainy weather we have been having – and creating brilliant contrasts between the raw wood crates containing the colorful graphic wrapped cartons with their shiny silver interiors holding the bright spring gre..
…is the cute, rustic, and homespun exception to my otherwise ‘trashy’ (in the best sense) garden of exclusively found, salvaged, and recycled goods with all of the plants growing in the random empty containers I have gathered around the Academy – but those potatoes are really looki..
…also known as ‘vermicoltura’ around here, is going well up on the Roman rooftop and the little red worms are reproducing quickly, eating their daily kitchen scraps, turning it into fertile worm castings, and all the while smelling just great – ‘che bel profumo!’ we say as we stick our noses in – and their ..
…which first came out in 1982, and was pretty much the only published resource out there on the topic when I first started the Edible Estates project in 2005, is so important to me that when I saw on my caller ID that Ros was actually calling me out of the blue in 2006 I ..
…and their welcome colors are something I am admiring on the rails from Chiusi to Roma Trastevere this rainy ..
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