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" ARCHITECTURE & DRILLING "

More than a conference front, the evening organized by the Young Architects Group, Monday, December 20, it is configured as a dialogue, a sort of conversation between the artist Frank Cucci and art criticism Erika La Rosa, conversation, to which were added at the end of the evening, some members of the public, intervened with questions addressed to the artist. The artist moved by the invitation and appreciation in recognition of his work as a teacher, he begins by thanking his former students now architects and professionals of this Order.
to clarify the title of the evening "Architecture & drilling, was the same artist. For "drilling" he means the preliminary operation is accomplished by probing a land to verify the adequacy of the structure built with the project. Dr. Erika La Rosa, with a series of images illustrates the artist's works, "works that defy any definition, but still represent the best of his poetry." Among these, Erika La Rosa shows works outside, outdoor (including those made at the Palazzo della Triennale, the Sforzesco Castle, the Abbey of Ganna), the inside works (such as those created in the room frescoes Umanitaria , Milan and at the Rivoli Theatre in Mazara del Vallo), the sculptures, composed of geometry and intersecting planes, elements that can be viewed as a whole or individually, ceramics, paintings , the work of design and the graphics . The different media are used by the artist, all based on research that concerns the area, more specifically, the empty space. "Emptiness is a living element, is not a limit but an opportunity," says Cucci. "My role," he says, is "to organize the space, or to structure it, organize it in terms of historical and geographical." "In this sense, the stronger the link between art and architecture," says Cucci, "The work of the artist and architect in the same manner to appropriate of space, both the structure, control it, today, the use of non-stereotypical ways, freed from rhetoric and free from the old Cartesian references, opens new horizons in which all artistic experiences come together. "
"The works of Francis, in respect of an organization Geo / Metric, seem to grow indefinitely," said Erika La Rosa.
A multifaceted artist and innovator who, by careful research, pursue and develop a thorough historical path and culture.
"We artists are filters only, seismometers sensitive to the evolution of man and his thought. The architecture is no stranger to the operation / process " Cucci said.
For him all the materials are just a means of expression. It is an indiscriminate use by the arc of a poor wood raw land, from time to acrylic, from cartoons to the baked clay from the plastic panels to neon lamps.
In his installations Cucci enters and physically through his work, establishing a dialectical relationship of spatial apperception. With the use of neon lighting to create spaces and perspectives.
Erika La Rosa shows the basic elements of the search for Gucci: "geometry, understood in the archaic which invention of the human mind created to navigate, has the task of giving a shape and dimension to creativity."
deconstructivist theories of Jacques Derrida, from which to draw, are the key elements of "see new" architectural thought and beyond. Fascinating dialogue
Art / Architecture, three hundred and sixty degrees, which involved those present in a warm climate of participation among the public, an artist and works beyond expectations.
Anyone wishing to visit the exhibition could, until late January, travel to the seat of the Order of Architects Varese, Via Grado 4, during office hours.

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Week 57 & 58: Winner / Winner

Dear friends here we are! A bit 'late, but here we are! Let's go in order.

For the week 57 "Red & Purple", pairing is not so easy, we really liked the interpretation of Mary :

For the week 58 "Birds & Feathers", we want to reward the newcomer SARA , with its romantic setting:

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" POSTCARDS FROM THE NETHERLANDS: COR Geluk, David Keuning

With the conference Thursday, Dec. 9, it was concluded the series of events dedicated to the interchange between Dutch architecture and architecture Italian. To close the initiative has been a columnist, David Keuning and a landscape architect / urban planner Cor Geluk .
During the first operation, conducted by David Keuning was tackled a subject so-called "cross" on a channel of communication for architecture can be a fundamental means. This is the magazine "Mark", published by the same Keuning. Founded in 2005, the magazine covers topics that relate to issues of architecture and interior design . During these five years, the magazine were also published 16 projects submitted by Italian Keuning with a quick succession of images. Among these projects are only two famous architects-Zaha Hadid and Massimiliano Fuksas, "says the speaker," others are less known, more niche, but very interesting for us. "
" In any case, "says Keuning," we were surprised that in five years only 16 projects have been published in Italian. "There are two cases according the publisher of this gap: first, the lack of publishers, sources of assistance that could indicate architectural interest in Italy and, second, poor or ineffective given by the Italians of their works to the magazine.
short, accountability is the publishers that to architects. But to try to improve the situation, concludes his Keuning interevento proposing some key points to better communicate to the public on its project: First you need to think about which media is better to put the project (local magazine, journal .. ) and what type of target face, we must then proceed to send a report in light style, with important data and photographs of excellent quality, it is essential not to the exclusivity and not expect at all costs to launch a scoop and Finally, you must use all the media you have available. From publishing
planning, the word goes to Cor Geluk : his speech opens with an unusual tribute to the Italians, appreciated by the draftsman had sent to the Dutch how to live well, enjoying the little everyday joys. The action then turns on an issue far more seriously, the Netherlands: country built below sea level, the Netherlands has always forced its inhabitants to have to adapt to its territorial and develop in them a great sense of 'organization and inspired many artists, including Mondrian.
After this introduction, explaining some Geluk proceeds on projects. The first relates to the revaluation of an area previously used for military exercises: in doing so, his team decided to concentrate in smaller areas of land and create underground car parks with the intent to leave the most space to nature. Interesting in this project, the involvement of customers: all future residents, in fact, decided, with the assistance of architects, such as building his house, with the only constraint of having to ask your future neighbors and the approval of the project. "With this in mind we have made to converge to the wishes of the people in the architecture," says Geluk then outlining a plan for a park at the entrance to the highway that connects Amsterdam to Paris: "to achieve it, we had to think about the move ' Highway below ground was a challenge for us, but we did. "
Finally, Geluk illustrates the 'last project for the Philips headquarters in Eindhoven, built as a kind of campus with open spaces, several meeting rooms and a huge parking area with walls covered with plants. "A place with a mark socially interesting" says Geluk, "with areas that facilitate the meeting and which are completely surrounded by nature."
Again, as in many other projects described during the five lectures, nature becomes an integral part of Dutch architecture, unique element that the architect, in Holland, can not and does not want to ignore. The exchange Italy-Holland and it was concluded, but the load of stimuli that has left behind, the wealth of ideas from which to draw new ideas, is certainly not to be underestimated, but to get the best, holding to account, with care, just like the "postcards from Holland."

Interview with Cor Geluk and David Keuning


To see the video of the evening, go to the following link
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"POSTCARDS FROM THE NETHERLANDS: Giuseppe Scaglione, Filip Geerts

Despite the catastrophic snow and weather reports, the series "Postcards from the Netherlands' Order of Architects Varese continued as planned. Wednesday, December 1, Giuseppe Scaglione and Filip Geerts directly from Trento and the Netherlands, have conducted an evening dedicated to a double view on the situation of architecture in Italy and the history of planning in the Netherlands.
Opening the conference was Scaglione, engaged since 1985 in projects that refer to the relationship between architecture and urbanism . And the comparison between urban planning and architecture marked the beginning of 'intervention the professor who, perhaps even provocative tone, said that, ultimately, the most interesting things produced in Italy do not come "by exegetes of architecture, but as an offshoot of architecture and urbanism." If architecture is still very much tied to the "Beaux Artes", and then undertook to study the form and composition, said Scaglione, urban planning, are confronted with issues such as the transformation of the cruel city, is a true work in progress .
And, speaking of the city transformed, Scaglione has been shown to present the destruction of the suburbs of some Italian cities, with images of important photographers : photos taken from the outskirts of Milan, Gabriele Basilico, rather than those which immortalize Armin Linke Naples, showed "disturbing episodes of the Italian way", the work of architects who have worked senseless without thinking of the future cities, coming to destroy their identity. In contrast, Scaglione said it was essential in a good city plan, "taking into account all the changes, identifying the steps of continuity and contiguity". The design of any element in the city, must be sensitive to the context. In particular, Scaglione examines the infrastructure, which too often have "hurt the landscape, without producing any osmotic relationship with the territory. In this regard, the professor presented a project he's working on the transformation of 'A22 . "We are working to change the skin of this motorway," says Scaglione and to do that, "we are taking into account the role that these facilities have in the future." First, many schemes have been carried out to understand how the highway is part of the territory, so it was decided to design new interactive platforms that not only take account of resting places for the drivers, hotels, restaurants, car parks to provide side public transportation into the city more environmentally friendly. The barriers were designed by the team Scaglione function as photovoltaics and identification features of the highway, especially since screenprinted Reil and the guard made with a natural material, Corten. The project is an example dell'Ausotrada A22, according to the bands, as it should be a good design, sensitive to the landscape and context and, above all, communicated in an appropriate manner, because, as the professor said, "you need to know good experiences, to expose themselves and sometimes, even for questioning. "
After Scaglione, intervention of Filip Geerts has emerged as a kind of overview on the history of planning in the Netherlands introduced by a quotation from "Travelogues" De Amicis (late nineteenth century) which is well summed up the whole speech. "Who looks for the first time a map of Holland is surprised that a country so there can be: it seems is to disintegrate at any moment." The Dutch territory, so hostile to the presence of man from the Netherlands suggest that the name may derive from the word "hell", hell, always has been, for Dutch architects and planners, an element of challenge, to be tamed.
For seven hundred years the Dutch have had to adapt and fight against the sea, by whatever means were available. It 'was the particular shape of the Netherlands to lead to the creation of another concept, that of " Ramstad," for which the city, the Netherlands, has never conceived as a nucleus in its own right, but it is an integral part of a system of cities linked together as a sort of network.
urban level, there is then, in Dutch, a term " Maakbaarhed" that sums up the concept of "build," intended both as a concrete way to turn ideas into reality, both as an ideological concept.
In his overview, Geerts focuses on two historical dates, 1901 and 1941, two key moments in the history of Dutch urban planning.
In 1901, when the law was adopted on cohousing and is made with the closure of the Zuiderzee dam 35 km into the sea, Lely Plan designed by architects and planners come into close relationship with each other to completely redesign the country.
And in 1941, the year of the bombing of Rotterdam and period of great destruction caused by the war, Holland is forced to rethink and redesign many cities. Among these, Rotterdam will be rebuilt in '44 by the work of Van Traa, and Amsterdam will see many architects, including Lely, discuss to find solutions best.
geography, history and territorial structure of Holland were the factors with which, again, Dutch architects and designers have had to face, reaching extreme solutions such as the polder, and often arrive at solutions that perfectly combine the poiesis and pragmatic plan of "Maakbaarhed.

Interview with Giuseppe Scaglione


Interview with Filip Geerts