In this issue: the Nadir Afonso Foundation by Álvaro Siza Vieira in Portugal and The Supreme Court of The Netherlands by Kaan Architecten; the house by Alberto Morell in Kenya and the 1964 house and furniture by Pino Pizzigoni in Italy. A text by Vittorio Gregotti invites us to reflect on the need for architectural design to return to an awareness of the culture of places and to a relationship with its own history in order to construct a reasonable future.
On design: the first Industrial Facility collaboration with Emeco and the one by Konstantin Grcic with Plank, the Bouroullec’s exhibition in Rennes, and the strategies Roberto Snaidero, the president of the Furniture Fair, adopted to overcome the crisis. Design icons in the movies and the work of the British graphic design collective Universal Everything.
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts focuses on local traditions, but with an eye on the international professional market. The teaching programme, which is based on a collective approach, is founded on three pillars: studies in the humanities, theory, and design praxis. The Chinese architect Wang Shu, awarded a Pritzker Prize, is teaching since 2001, when he founded an actual School of Architecture in Hangzhou.
Alessandro Mendini, describes his Milan in the feedback, beeing more interested in its representation than in the actual city. The art historian Andréi Nakov analyzes in the elzeviro “the (imagined) fiction of the work imperceptibly takes the place of our direct experience of the original”.
In the Arch and Art supplement the story of the project by Assolombarda Confindustria Milano Monza e Brianza realized by Domus, on show in the Triennale Gardens.
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Klimahouse 2025: twenty years of sustainability
Now in its 20th edition, the international trade fair dedicated to responsible construction, energy efficiency and building renovation will be held in Bolzano from 29 January to 1 February.