Alfredo Taroni, litographer in Como, revealed to us Epifanie brevi e Trattato di Architettura, two volumes created by Sottsass with him in 1999. This month’s school is the Università della Campania, who uses the discipline as a design-related tool of utmost use to the architect. In Naples, a former 16th-century cloister in a densely populated context suffering from serious building, social and economic decline is the focus of an ambitious urban-regeneration programme by the Made in Cloister Foundation. The elzeviro by Pier Paolo Pasolini is an excerpt from Appendice a “Le mura di Sana’a”, press conference of the Italian-Arab League, 1974.
The Green supplement is curated by Paolo Cresci (Arup Italia), who realised three interviews about “people and nature in the age of tecnique”. In addition, projects and thought on the deep relation between nature and the developement of humankind, tecnique and the art of building.