On the Road with Denis
A journey as if were a grand thematic territorial exhibition. I’ve chosen the birth of the Modern as cultural genre, understood as significant context of the first industrialization of human society...
View ArticleAnother Idea of the Art Collection
The Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Milan is experimenting with a model of public management alongside constructive private participation, in order to move beyond the idea of sponsorship and introduce new...
View ArticleGio Ponti’s interiors at the University of Padua
The Bo is an ancient building that has housed Padua University since the end of the 15th century, i.e. since the time when the Venetian Republic brought all the faculties together in a single location,...
View ArticleLeonardo in Vigevano
Is it a coincidence that the Piazza Ducale of Vigevano is so similar to Leonardo’s drawings of the ideal city? Perhaps not, given the numerous other traces that the genius from the region of Florence...
View ArticleTricks of Rhetoric
The story of an Italy devoted to beauty and art is a fascinating and comforting one, but it doesn’t reflect reality. Italians like to luxuriate in their historical, artistic and scenic heritage, but...
View ArticleThe Heritage of the Earth
Three women – in Pakistan, Morocco and Bangladesh – have been working silently for years to guard (and preserve) ancient traditions and building techniques that are dying out, improving local economies...
View ArticleIn the Heart of France
The Bibliothèque Richelieu in Paris, one of Henri Labrouste’s masterpieces, has recently reopened to the public and is now a strategic centre for education and national culture. The architect...
View ArticleEndless Building
Rather than a work of architecture, Milan’s Cathedral is a process. For over six hundred years it has acted out the part of a great Gothic church, with the same types of workers, the same required...
View ArticleThe Whale Experiment
The visionary architect Vittorio Giorgini built this fanciful dwelling in the 1960s by casting concrete over arc-welded mesh, a new technique at the time. Recently restored, the house is now part of a...
View ArticleGood Practice at Herculaneum
In the management of an archaeological site in Campania, public and private funds and governance have been brought together, leading to streamlined procedures, and producing one of the few examples of...
View ArticleArchaeological Sites, Curse and Blessing
They are what make Italy unique, but tourism is focused on the best-known monuments, while neglecting the country’s many other attractions, which are already suffering from a lack of resources and a...
View ArticleThe Mathematics of Villa La Rotonda
A model of absolute beauty and ideal proportions, this is the building that more than any other epitomizes Palladio's style and it inspired many later buildings. Today the custodian of this masterpiece...
View ArticleThe passion for Rome
In Roma Alda Fendi and her foundation have restored ancient treasures of inestimable value to the public and carried out experimental research to promote culture The post The passion for Rome appeared...
View ArticleTricks of Rhetoric
The story of an Italy devoted to beauty and art is a fascinating and comforting one, but it doesn’t reflect reality. Italians like to luxuriate in their historical, artistic and scenic heritage, but...
View ArticleFaith in the Alps
Dedicated to the Holy Land and popular devotions, the Sacri Monti of Piedmont were built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They are now the focus of a campaign of restoration and promotion....
View ArticleThe Biggest Church in the World
The construction of St Peter’s, in the heart of Christendom, is the story of the creation of a great work of architecture in which some of the most extraordinary masters of the past, from Bramante to...
View ArticleOpen House in Rome
The OpenHouse Worldwide format provides free access to jewels of architecture and architecture studios not usually open to the public: a few tips about what to see in Rome during the two-day event in...
View ArticleSan Miniato’s first thousand years
The basilica of San Miniato, masterpiece of Florentine Romanesque style, celebrates its founding in 1018 The post San Miniato’s first thousand years appeared first on Abitare.
View ArticleA Unique History
Only a few monuments in the world have been able to survive centuries and massive change while remaining key urban landmarks. One of these is the Mausoleum of Augustus in Rome, which may soon be...
View ArticleThe Via Francigena near Piacenza
The Piacenza section of the Via Francigena will be revived thanks to a regional tender won by six municipalities. The project includes physical works and a design competition L'articolo The Via...
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