PreText

pretext /ˈpriːtɛkst/ noun noun: pretext; plural noun: pretexts a reason given in justification of a course of action that is not the real reason.

Pretext. PreTesto. Pre-Text.

Behind a Pretext there is always a real reason. The Pretext wears a mask, the one derived from the Latin ornament that builds its etymology. It covers and conceals, it insinuates itself into actions as a contrivance, as an ‘excuse for’. When we begin to pay attention to it, everything becomes Pretext.

The portfolio consists of two parts: PreText and Dictionary.

PreText is composed as a selected collection of projects, graphic works and texts produced, both academic and personal. The choice was mediated by self-criticism and personal preference, taking into account project progression or regression.

The Dictionary accompanies the projects, scrolling down the left-hand side of some pages; it is placed in a separate reading level. The definitions assigned to the chosen words are often unusual, sometimes incomprehensible.

Nothing, however, is left to chance: notes are at the end.

Index

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ARCHIPELAGO PLAY! The monumental game

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PUT DOWN YOUR WEAPONS, NON-VIOLENT RESISTANCE

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ASSO DI COUPE

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PÉRISCOPE SONIQUE

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ATELIER TVO + DECLARE

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BRAND NEW BREDA©

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8760 REDENTORI

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ANARCHITECTURE

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CALL 4 PHOTOGRAPHERS

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MANOU/NOAH

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FUTURE IS NOT HUMANOID

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NOTES

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ARCHIPELAGO

The project is the port of the cemetery island, the most introverted of the autonomies, takes shape precisely as a landing place, a direct connection with context and islands, and under San Bernardino establishes a physical and conceptual correspondence with the archipelago. It is divided into four main elements: Black Beach (car park), Tunnel (vaulted corridor), Court (underground), Podium (terrace and open space below the church).

“The natural landscape of Urbino, with its crops, is no longer a stable backdrop to which to anchor oneself but rather a fabric of apparent precariousness, which can be permanently disrupted.”

Leonardo Benevolo, Urbino.

What if the indeterminate hilly landscape became a sea?

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Starting from the assumption that Urbino is an archipelago, it must necessarily be considered that each island composing it, in addition to a character definable according to social and morphological parameters, has a port.

The port is the most critical point, in the “water” land relationship in relation to material change (in our case it would be built-natural), and also as a point of landing and indirect relationship with the other islands.

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A A

It is the fundamental, frontopen vowel, pronounced with maximum lip opening and the tongue in an absolute resting position A1 In common and figurative language, symbol of ‘beginning’, like Z, last letter, of ‘end’.

A2 Shift prefix for paper formats

Abitare

From Habere, to intervene temporarily or permanently in the environment in order to create protection. Place of personal identity, where we take care, and place of relationships

Abitare1

Only man inhabits the world, not the gods, not the animals, so can we ‘inhabit’ paths and thresholds, bridges, passages, distances?

Is it conceivable to inhabit... the Open?

Abolire

Repeal by order of authority

Abusivo

Unlawfully and charmingly existing against the common law

Accademia

If we went back to the original, it would be a beautiful garden, to be attended after the holidays, with an elite of thinkers and thinkers

Alternativo

Which is suitable to replace another (generically) Which alternates between one direction and the other (speaking of motion)

Analogia

Similarity. You will never be able to see what I think but, if language permits, you can come close.Ando Tadao, 1941 Osaka, pro boxer

Anonimo

As a pictorial representation of a concept, without the need for signature, recognition

Anti-

Evident split between Greek and Latin language: ‘against’ or ‘in front’

Archeologia

Excavation is a profession. The sciences of antiquity are a great pretext to search for the centre of the earth

Archi-

From the Greek ‘to be in charge’,

Giancarlo De Carlo’s master plan took into account the multidimensionality of the city of Urbino and above all its unique relationship with the natural fabric. Through the careful study of the morphology of the area, which includes not only the historical centre, but also the perceptible landscape, the plan develops as a reading and deciphering of the system of relations between the built and the natural, and also as an exemplary attitude that sees the architects of Federico Da Montefeltro as a reference. De Carlo himself, in an interview with Pierluigi Nicolin for Lotus Booklet, states, however, how much the balance between built-up area and landscape has suffered dangerous cracks as a result of artificial development that has not been sufficiently mediated and conscious, and furthermore not closely connected with the natural.

The built-up area now behaves as a collection of isolated systems, cityislands with clearly recognisable boundaries, as if the landscape had turned into a sea. It is extremely evident how this development has limited not only Urbino’s relationship with its context, but also certain elements that related the city to its surroundings.

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it indicates principle, primacy, command, or primitive, primary.

It would be even easier to speak of Arché, as the prime principle of Anaximander, and the original substance of all things and to which all things return; if for the ancients it was natural elements, we inevitably associate it with the word ‘architecture’ or why not with the noblest of figures: the architect. It almost seems as if the architect has no god but himself

Arrogante

Attributing to himself what is not properly his, even a son

(Arti)

When I first ironed with my grandmother, she told me ‘learn the art and put it aside’.

Atelier

Atelier TVO

Autentico

Vans Authentic, an iconic model, one of the best-selling in the world, designed in 1966 as a canvas ‘boat shoe’.

Autentico1

Genuine, which is neither fake nor falsified, carries an idea of security in itself and yet we are talking about death and anguish

Autogestione

“Capitalism has destroyed everything, the most powerful weapon against capitalism is self-management”

B Bagno

‘Well done projects always have well done bathrooms’

Ballatoio

“Ho passato qualche ora ad osservare […] il moto degli abitanti nella mia casa […] la gente era a nord tutta sui ballatoi davanti a ogni porta, con sedie a sdraio e sgabelli, per partecipare da attori e da spettatori al teatro di loro stessi e della strada”

Banale

Conventional, normal, extremely dangerous

Banalità

“Im rahmen der pläne des hochkommissariats des reiches zur festigung des germanismus musste ich den transport nach Berlin planen, das war mein auftrag […] im Rahmen meiner Verantwortung musste ich natürlich meine Aufgabe erfüllen”

ο ἰ κ ί α W H I T E I S L A N D

Συ μ π ό σ ι ον G R E Y I S L A N D

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Bastione

San Marco, Treviso

Bello

‘Ogni scarraffone è bell’a mamma sua’

Brutto

Il Buono, il Brutto e il Cattivo

Brutto1

Ugly is attractive, ugly is exciting, maybe because it is new

Brise Soleil

Reinforced concrete bricks integrated into the building structure itself

Brutalismo

If Via Dante, or rather Orefici, were to continue, one could say that the Castello Sforzesco looks like a medieval tower from the ‘50s

Brutalismo1

In graphic design language is a naked HTML site with blue links and monochromatic Monospace text

C CAD

‘You can choose between being head of the studio or being a caddy. Usually the one who doesn’t sleep at night is the first one’

Cantiere

25 kg of cement on the construction site cost 5 euro, sometimes it’s free

Caos

initial condition(s) for which extremely different consequences may occur

Capitalismo

See “Autogestione”

Carattere

In psychology, that is determined by temperament and social environment. It seems unacceptable, yet there are those who claim that there is definitely someone else who has exactly the same temperament as us

Città

Nomadic camp on a planetary scale that sometimes walks on eight legs; ideally there are twelve types

Cliché

Industry and machinism may harm the spirit, but this is only due to their misuse

Climax

Illustration of culmination

Collasso

τ έ χ ν η P I N K I S L A N D

κ α ι ρ ό ς B L A C K I S L A N D

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Moment at which the resistance of external forces fails

Comodità

The creative director of Vogue Japan was trampled by Teva on the catwalk

Conversazioni

Yet another excuse to talk about architecture

Costruzione

Every construction is a construction only when the fusion of the elements can be rationally justified

D Decisione

See “Progetto”

Degrado

Degradation of a material indicates the changes it has undergone that result in its deterioration from a conservation point of view and is distinguished from alteration that, conversely, does not compromise the conservation of the work

Demolizione

Fall of Columbus in 2020

Desiderio

The one is most friendly to humans

Dicotomia

Method for numerically determining a solution to an equation in an unknown f(x)=0, with f being a continuous function in an interval [a, b] such that f(a) and f(b) are of discordant sign

Dinamica

1/200-1/60-1/30

Domus

“Ora questo che io faccio, verrà fuori sulla domus, e sarà a portata di tutti, in tutto il mondo, perché stampata in cinque lingue”

E Eccezione

Exceptions do not confirm rules, if anything they disprove them

Edificio

In French, it sounds like ‘abbattimento’ and means Ship

Ego

Personal pronoun, lacking any concrete and comprehensive definition

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PLAY! The monumental game

Federico Da Montefeltro’s architects to transform the mediaeval city into a Renaissance capital) and are without doubt: the La Pineta residential district, the university colleges and the mercatale and torrione.

These elements, cornerstones of the attitude that could have led Urbino to be an interwoven natural and built fabric, now behave like the ports of the city-islands, which are the direct consequence of exceptions to the plan and a mitosis between two aspects that, mitigated, had always been its greatest strength.

“Annegare in terraferma O camminare sopra l’acqua Ma non tocca a me la scelta Mi dispiace mamma, ma devo andare Finché la terra diventa mare Non c’è più vento, non c’è più sorte Ormai non mi spaventa neanche la morte” Selton, Terraferma

“PLAY the monumental game” is what follows the realisation of the project. As architecture is shown, it also needs to be told. The purpose of “PLAY” is precisely to make the reader enter architecture, which is inevitably unrealisable by its nature as an academic, utopian project-exercise. It is articulated as a narrative text in which, however, choices can be made. It simulates, therefore, movement in space and sensory experiences that would only be perceivable if the utopia were realised.

The game consists precisely in taking a position and choosing a path, which becomes personal, and aimed at an arrival that is not exactly clear, at times unpredictable and even unsuccessful.

Urbino is and was a microcosm. It has multiple dimensions, including historical, touristic, university and certainly geographical.

The reflection of this multidimensionality strongly affects the physical expansion of the city, but, above all, it magnifies its spatial structure. Urbino is a complex organism, which appears differently depending on the point from which it is observed, and this continuous diversification and variation of perceptibility that it presents contributes to unifying it in an image of great breadth.

Giancarlo De Carlo’s plan certainly took this phenomenon into account, through the careful study of the morphology of the area that includes not only the historic centre but also the perceptible landscape. The aim of the plan was to decipher the system of relations between the built and the natural, as the latter can be considered closely connected to the fabric of the city. De Carlo himself, in an interview with Pierluigi Nicolin for Lotus Booklet, states how the balance between built-up area and landscape has suffered dangerous cracks as a result of insufficiently mediated and conscious artificial development. The built-up area now behaves as a set of isolated systems, city-islands with clearly recognisable boundaries, as if the landscape had turned into a sea. Building and residential production, particularly that surrounding the Pine Forest, suppresses the city’s grandeur as a result of its multidimensionality to make way for one-sided growth of development anchored on exceptions to the plan. It is extremely evident how this development limited not only Urbino’s relationship with its context, but also certain elements that related the city to its surroundings. The key elements of the plan are those that most blend with the context and define the attitude of fusion between the historical centre and the expansion area (in some way the method adopted by 21

Elite

Elected, chosen, desired group See “Desiderio”

Empirismo

‘Credo solo a ciò che vedo, come San Tommaso’

Epoche

Benefit of the doubt

Eternità

“Nulla si edifica sulla roccia, tutto sulla sabbia, ma è nostro dovere edificare sulla sabbia come se fosse roccia”

Extrude

Rhino command

F Fabbrica

One of the most interesting architectural spaces, temples of modernity

Facciata

Obsessive element Fuck Facade!

Baptismus

Falso

False light, reflecting off objects in such a way as to make it difficult to perceive colours accurately or detect contours

Falso1

False derivative

Falso2

Fake wall

Frammento

One of many Piranesians, who by definition are and remain separate, making it impossible to recompose the original unity

Funzione

Relationship between two sets, called the domain and codomain of the function, which associates each element of the domain with one and only one element of the codomain

Futuro

A pretext for building the future is utopia

G Gabbia

General indifference has materialised in a Cage. We are dramatically resigning ourselves to the cultural and political impoverishment of our discipline

Genio

The ability that includes natural talent and cultural inventiveness

I no longer felt a single muscle, perhaps from the cold, perhaps from the impact or perhaps from fear. My skin, however, felt that strange material, the same one that had greeted me after the shipwreck. It was icy, perhaps wet, giving the idea of shattered black glass. I was standing and kept losing myself in that dense weave that was so black as to be shiny. That was probably why they called it a black island, perhaps those who had managed to get close and return to the other ports to tell about it had called it that because of that unusual landing.

I remembered the kind welcome at the first port I had encountered. I was coming from Rimini, north-west of the archipelago, and in the distance I could see the first island: the white island. La Pineta, its port, had been the place of my first landing. I had begun my journey at the foot of that gigantic complex of buildings, which was almost entirely submerged with the rising tide. The brilliance of that harbour was still firmly imprinted in my mind, it was an overlook towards the archipelago within it and at the same time the beacon that signalled its presence to the surrounding towns. The island was almost entirely composed of residential buildings and the air I had breathed was familiar, calm, hospitable. In the logbook I had described it as οἶκος, which in Greek means family or home.

An oikos was the basic unit of society in most Greek city-states. Oikos was used in modern sociology to describe social groups. One may know several dozen or hundreds of people, but the time spent with them is extremely limited: only those with whom one has lasting relationships can be said to be part of an oikos . Every individual has a primary group that includes relatives and friends who relate to the individual through work, recreation, hobbies, or by being close. Modern oikos, however, comprise people who share some sort of social relationship, either through conversation or mere

intercourse, for at least a total of one hour per week. This was the memory that the white island had left me with: a place of social interaction and contact with the inhabitants who had been hospitable to me and others who went to sea.

I never imagined, after my first stop, that I would find myself on a beach so black and invaded by forest. I made the mistake of raising my head: an army of logs at attention hid Saint Bernard in the background, I felt faint and in a moment I was back on land.

I got up again when it was night, but the difference with the day was not much, the sky was barely visible and the moon had turned the beach and the trees into a labyrinth of mirrors.

The forest had appropriated that corner of the island and the shadow was its signature.

I was wandering without logic, the ground beneath me rose and fell as much as the waves that had brought me there, the sight played tricks on me and my mind certainly didn’t have the strength not to be fooled by those long-linear figures that repeatedly appeared as if they were alive and capable of encircling me. It was luck that made me fall this time and threw me to the ground. My palms felt hot and dry and my feet were still trapped in that black earth. I was at a trivium, the only way out was to make a choice.

PLAY! 2.1. climb the ladder 2.2. enter the tunnel 2.3. walk the path

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barrièra s. f. [dal fr. barrière, der. di barre «barra»]. – shelter, barrier to mark a boundary, to close a passageway fig. Obstacle, impediment, or closure, demarcation, boundary: to create, place barriers

The Lido is a barrier. Both morphologically and conceptually, it acts as a shelter, a barrier and a boundary between two ecosystems that are inevitably confronted. One of these ecosystems that is established in the contrasting relationship as an attacking enemy is the sea.

The Lido is on the front line in a border war between land and water. Every centimetre is vital to maintain the integrity of the island and its tourist beach.

The Lido grits its teeth as the sea dries it up, its currents thin it out, and the slow but swift action of time brings more and more wounds. The sea rises, it seems to become an invincible enemy, the high tides are deep attacks. Traces of ‘66 still remain, the murazzi sheltered civilians from the waves and still bear the marks.

The murazzi themselves are an anthropic barrier within a territorial barrier, an intervention aimed at defending the housing behind, the result of a building boom during the Golden Island period.

In front of them, the beach takes up space and welcomes the intense tourist activity of the summer months. Every element built on the reef is continually exposed to the attack of the sea. It is time to take a stand: continue the border war by bringing sand to sand or put down your weapons and resist nonviolently. Restore the natural balance across the dunes, reconsider the Lido no longer as a tourist beach and experience the barrier in relation to this conflict, only then can peace be achieved.

In 2050 perhaps there will be peace.

The dunes will restore a balance between ecosystems and a new spatial construction of the island with a consequent connection between its inhabitants and the very border they inhabit. The walls, at the forefront, will no longer be just the defensive system but the new shore.

Non-violent resistance will bring the Lido back to its primary and innate characteristic: its being a profound barrier.

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to introduce into his work the imponderable, random ingredient, unknown even to himself, that makes it beautiful

Geometria

Anthropocentric and simplified translation of the world

Geometria Descrittiva

Science that enables, by means of certain geometric constructions, the unambiguous representation of two- and threedimensional objects in one or more planes

Gesso

One of water, two of gypsum

Gioco

The Sims is one of the reasons why those born in the 1990s chose to study architecture at the age of 12

Gioco1

Exercise, individual or collective, to which one devotes oneself in order to restore physical and spiritual energies

Gioco2

In an environment where man’s needs are already satisfied at the outset, aggression is sublimated and life becomes dynamic, in an architecture that has as its foundation the principle of disorientation, which favours play, adventure, encounter and creative exchange

Grafica

The most powerful method of social communication, it shapes metaphors with images

Grattacielo

A stereometry that may or may not be disguised; it is very interested in something that goes up and by going up it modifies itself. But it does not modify its image, instead it modifies the image of a city

Griglia

Architectural model for total urbanisation

H Habitat

“Is concerned with the particular house in the particular type of community”

Hotel

Overlook

I

Idea

Default Mode Network + Executive Control Network + Salience Network

Identità

Equality between two expressions in which one or more variables are involved, which is true for all the values that can be attributed to the variables, with the only constraint being that the expressions make sense

Immagine

The figure resulting from the set of points at which the rays from the corresponding points of a luminous object meet, once reflected or refracted by an optical instrument

Immagine1

Figure reproducing a given object formed on the sensitive emulsion of a film, plate or photographic paper, first latent and then, after development, visible; also, the photograph itself

Immagine2

Element associated, via an application, with another element

Ipertesto

The more one reads, the more one realises that, rather than a pretext, this is hypertext

Ironia

There is irony hidden in some of these definitions

Isola

“La riva delle isole sconosciute è quella più remota e qurlla che ci chiama più inesorabilmente”

L Labirinto

argentinian writer in San Giorgio Maggiore, behind of the S. Giorgio pavilion

Linea

inspires poetry

Linea1

“We go out, the space is vast.

We walk beside each other.

We want to talk.

But what each one relates, the other already knows.

For from the beginning, blotted out, forgotten, it has been the same adventure.

And in our dreams, we meet.

We love, we complete each other.

But no one ever journeys farther than into himself or another”

Logico :=

The Lido is, therefore, a littoral cordon made up of sandy elevations of emerged beaches and aeolian dunes. The dune systems, present in particular in the south (Alberoni) and north, remain, despite human intervention, an unmistakable feature of the morphology and landscape.

Landfill material is present in the central-western sector of the island on the lagoon side; here, land reclamation was essentially carried out by filling in the 19th century and in the first decade of the 20th century through the filling in of mud from the excavation of lagoon canals.

Heavy human intervention, which also included the construction of the ‘murazzi’, the ‘groynes’ against beach erosion in the central part of the Lido and the dykes at the Lido and Malamocco inlets, favoured beach accretion and allowed ‘inland’ urban development.

Foreshore-”wet sand”-running, racquetball, five-a-side football pitch, sand castles, waiting on the shore.

Backshore-’safe spot’-’sun-kissed’, street vendors, umbrellas, tent.

Backshore is what defines the limit of the beach and the beginning of the built-up area, change not only spatially, but as a direct consequence also socially.

Foreshore is contact limit.

The shore defends itself from the sea so as not to be swallowed up by it.

“The island-barrier is inherently vulnerable to storm surges, inevitably has preserved environmental values in a largely man-made environment, and is home to a unique model of bathing organisation, virtually unchanged since the 19th century.”

Bezzi et al, 2014

If we take into account the division of the coastline, established by wave breaking point (offshore-nearshore), the beginning of the shore (dependent on the tide level, foreshore), and the tongue of land not washed by the water (backshore), we already spatially establish, in relation to the land-sea relationship, the situations proper to each ‘strip’.

Offshore-”static” sea -controlled passage of boats, pedal boats, dinghies, waiting surfers, swimmers.

Nearshore-from wave breaking point to surface sand-surfers on the wave, swimmers, swimmers, children, hand fishing.

The barrier defends and si defends itself.

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Luce

390-700 nm 300.000 Km/sec in one year it covers 9,500 billion km

M Macchina

From personal experience, I can state almost with certainty, that if I asked an entire lecture hall at IUAV, what is the most beautiful car, they would answer ‘the defender’.

Macchina1

See “Struttura”

Mappa

Cloth, mostly linen, used as table linen or in women’s clothing

Materia

That which cannot be touched, but which has a large unit mass.

Also called ‘missing mass’ is that which surrounds stars

Memoria

More or less complete and lasting record of experienced, and nonexperienced, external stimuli and their responses

Metafora

Conceptual, design, construction means of transport. It implies by definition a “transport”

Metropolis

Exactly six years from now, the class divisions will continue to deepen and we will find ourselves making hands at the clock in a factory

Monumento

“Elemento primario di tipo particolare”

Monumento1

“La monumentalità in architettura si può intendere come una qualità, una qualità spirituale che rende esplicito il carattere eterno della costruzione”

N Normale

“Terme très équivoque et prêtant beaucoup à la confusion : car tantôt il désigne un fait, possible à constater scientifiquement, et tantôt une valeur attribuée à ce fait par celui qui parle, en vertu d’un jugement d’appréciation qu’il prend à son compte. Le

The Lido returns to its true nature. It is returning to its origins, to what it morphologically and territorially is.

The interventions are all aimed at an attitude of redevelopment and expansion of the dune oasis, with the aim of gradually abandoning the attitude that has led the Lido to be, today, a destination abandoned by luxury tourism.

The soldier of the first metaphor accompanies us throughout the planning process, from the tale of the border war between land and sea, to the progressive approach to the awareness of the key to solving the problem.

The urban plan is articulated along the entire length of the coastline, entering however into the interior of the lido and involving fundamental spaces connected to places of access to the sea front. Each situation is conceived in relation to the pre-existence and above all to a progressive landscape and morphological evolution.

Initially the soldier raised his hands, something ambiguous was shown in the poster image.

Now the figure in the metaphor is an old man, wise, looking out to sea and leaving behind a different, mature landscape.

The figure is identified with Dostojevski, author of War and Peace, and an openly and actively pacifist character.

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ASSO DI COUPE coli, and crosses the foundations until it flows into the Giudecca canal. It is a deep crack, separating two souls of the city: that of the historical fabric and the ‘parasitic’ industrial one. The violence of the contrast has caused it to fracture, and it is now in need of repair.

The baroque façade of the Terese claims, in front of one of Venice’s oldest churches, the need for an intervention, surgical, to reunite it with itself and its context; even its door is broken. The crack must be repaired, in the same way as kintsugi practices, with a golden glue, witness to the, still present but dormant, soul of the city of splendour. If not a bridge, the factory must be a table, on which one stands and talks, on which one sleeps and eats.

Without doing it on purpose, an engraved point created disarray, bewilderment and above all a rupture. De Barbari was already there, a factory that had sprung up south of Venice, almost close to the Giudecca canal, grafted right in front of a church, one of the oldest in the city. It lived various lives, some as a convent, then as an orphanage and dormitory, until now, which, bearing the traces of time, motionless and introverted, calls itself home. Santa Marta grew as a mirror of time on earth, taking up space in a world of its own, as its new and necessary contemporary evolution. It seemed the intention of a second splendour, perhaps the same The table on which one plays cards, briscola or one that Carpaccio drew, but in a 19th-century scopa, where the ace, the one of cups carrying key. Rialto in the 16th century was the heart, of two faces of distinct souls, takes everything. a body in constant movement, towards which the whole world moved: the city was in full life and fed by pure commerce. It shone in a golden 1. Nome di un ipotetico monaco, cui fa riferimento la frase light, rich and opulent; Venice was insatiable. prov. per un punto Martin perse la cappa. Il proverbio fa riDecadence, however, was inevitable. In 1797, ferimento alla frase latina “Uno pro puncto caruit Martinus the amphibious city certainly did not agree to Asello, letteralmente “Per un unico punto Martino perse Aselkneel before a French general, and it paid bit- lo”. Nella locuzione in italiano la “cappa”, cui ci si riferisce, è sorta di mantello, simbolo della carica di priore di un moterly for it2. There, just where the city clashed una nastero, perdere la quale significa rimozione dalla carica o with other realities, the convent resisted as a mancato conseguimento della stessa. Secondo la tradizione factory, gradually forgetting its various past popolare, il monaco Martino, abate del monastero, avrebbe lives. It was a rigid element, a pivot, under- perso la carica di abate per un errore di punteggiatura fatto in going the transformations of itself in relation un’iscrizione. La frase cambiò di significato radicalmente da “Porta patens esto. Nulli claudatur honesto” ovvero “La porto a changing city, which, however, could not ta sia aperta. A nessuna persona onesta sia chiusa” a “Porta escape the laws of physics and history, whi- patens esto nulli. Claudatur honesto” ovvero “La porta non sia ch violently left their marks, their ruptures. aperta a nessuno. Sia chiusa agli onesti”.

The convent is fractured. 2. 1797, Napoleone Bonaparte cercò di allearsi con Venezia e, A thousand cracks it carries in its memory and quest’ultima, si negò a patteggiare. L’imperatore francese si vendicò, mettendo fine a tredici anni d’indipendenza della Resome can be seen with the naked eye. They are pubblica di Venezia. Saccheggiò il Bucintoro e si impossessò not the only ones, those of the convent, that are di tutto l’oro e degli oggetti di valore. Il Bucintoro, l’imbarcaevident. There is an even larger one, which runs zione del Doge, fu inviata in Francia, dove fu utilizzata come in the canal between the Terese and the Mendi- prigione.

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Body lamp

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In N, no number other than 0 has its opposite; each number has its opposite in Z, Q, R, C. In each of these fundamental number sets, the number 0 is the opposite of itself

Ordine

Which shows methodical disposition, admittedly of a shared logic

Ostacolo

The bed, the dream dimension, poses as a physical obstacle, but accompanies in one of the most interesting shows of recent years

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“Un nuovo modo per ottenere potere mentale sulla mente, in maniera e quantità mai vista prima”

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“The iconographic deterrence of the old is left intact, saving the new the embarrassment of having to either ignore or express the idea of incarceration, which is incompatible with its aspirations”

Parassita

Any animal or plant organism or architectural organism living at the expense of another

Partecipazione

Fundamental component that liberates the architecture itself.

Includes “Anarchia”

Politica

But then is architecture a political act or not?

No and Yes.

Progetto

We, men, are project. Man gives himself design. Man’s designing himself from the possibilities that are most his own, in particular the possibility of death

Provocazione

Loos, scrittore provocatore per eccellenza

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Magic, arrangement of whole numbers in the form of a square table in which two conditions are met: the values are all distinct from each other and the sum of the numbers in each row, in each column, and in both diagonals, always gives the same result

Quota

Distance of a point from a fixed horizontal plane, aerial and periscopic

R Rappresentazione

the transition from a spatial or abstract object to its graphic image on the plane or other surface; more generally, any correspondence established between two abstract entities to simplify their study or compare their properties

Razionalità

The quality of one who is endowed with reason, which is the noblest of human endowments

Resistenza

“Istruitevi, perché avremo bisogno di tutta la nostra intelligenza.

Agitatevi, perché avremo bisogno di tutto il nostro entusiasmo.

Organizzatevi, perché avremo bisogno di tutta la nostra forza”

Rifugio

Warm, cosy, primitive space, consisting of a structure and a roof, often a carpet

Rovina

Pure architecture, which has lost its function and returned to its merely formal dimension, is a useless object...

S Scenografia

In a white courtyard, an offcentre staircase and a glimpse of San Bernardino create an architectural backdrop

Scheletro

That which gives support but, etymologically, refers to dryness,

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In the imaginative setting of a journey, where discovery is the driving force of thought, and curiosity becomes a mania, the senses mingle and confuse, or perhaps, give birth to a sixth, which is the sum of them. Gare de Mines is an industrial world, a forest of incomplete and abandoned architecture. Desolation is its essence. Yet the space moves, with inexorable time. The structures speak, living the place as a world of their own. We can only be visitors to a reality that fascinates us. We spy the place and its inhabitants as in the practice of birdwatching; hidden inside a camouflaged structure with augmented vision devices.

In this case, the sight is enriched by sound, it is, as we said before, a kind of additional sense. The project consists of a metal structure, a tower, a steel periscope, and a sound amplification system that is activated depending on the direction of our gaze.

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cognitive substance of the experience, real or virtual, of the architectural phenomenon expressed through figurative constructions represented and/or realised

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Stereotomia

science that studies, in a geometric sense, the tracing of solids by cutting, even theoretically, from other solids, the interpenetration between solids and the identification of intersecting lines and curves. An example is the entrance to the Urbino cemetery tunnel

Stile

Peculiarity, personal characteristic, or of a particular group; presupposes consistency and static nature. Extremely dangerous

Strada

Curved element, as opposed to the right angles of urban planning regulations

Stress

Faithful companion

Studio

Simultaneously conventional space and act of intellectual application

Surrealismo

“Automatismo psichico puro, attraverso il quale ci si propone di esprimere, con le parole o la scrittura o in altro modo, il reale funzionamento del pensiero.

Comando del pensiero, in assenza di qualsiasi controllo esercitato dalla ragione, al di fuori di ogni preoccupazione estetica e morale”

T Talento

The attic weighed 26,20 kg

Team X

A body, derived from the CIAM, intentionally unstructured, which had the task of organising the meetings of a group mainly formed by architects, with the aim of discussing and elaborating ideas and joint documents on architecture and town planning

Tempio

“Immaginare addirittura la casa del dio, la dimora del

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perfettamente sapiente, lì dove il filosofo, che tende all’aoikos (mai-a-casa), abiterebbe finalmente felice, cessando finalmente d’essere filosofo.

Non è forse questo il più grande paradosso dell’architettura?”

Tempo

Unrestricted continuity, so incomprehensible that it can be described as ‘distention of the soul’. Universally divisible in correspondence with the unfolding of certain astronomical phenomena

Teoria

Tettonico

The study of construction syntax, the way in which a designer organises the parts of an architectural structure according to a constructive logic.

Tectonics is therefore the art of composition par excellence

Traccia

Ctrl + 8, Illustrator

Trinità

“Haec autem ita fieri debent, ut habeatur ratio firmitatis, utilitatis, venustatis”

Turisti

63 thousand a day in Venice, possibly more during carnival, possibly even more when you have to reach the former cotton mill with a 100x70 maquette

U Unità

The ownership of what is in itself complete and indivisible

Unità1

Each individual constituent of a multiplicity

Unità2

1: foundation of numbering

Università

Place of collectivity, collectivity, characterised by a compact membership. Space for confrontation, reflection, direct confrontation, teaching.

Protected place

Utile

“Omne tulit punctum, qui miscuit utile dulci”

Utopia

“Luogo che non esiste.

Ordinamento sociale e politicoimmaginario in cui tutti saranno felici”

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It seems that today’s fashion is no longer enough.Paradoxical!

Considering that we can get everything, even a smart suit for 25€.

Yet thrift shops turnover more than H&M (64 MLD for secondhand, against 44 MLD for fast fashion). But even second-hand is not enough for us. We miss the care in designing and making the garments, the attention to the singularity of the wearer and, above all, the uniqueness of the piece; not mass-produced, but exclusively unrepeatable. The photos collected are the first step, the starting point, towards a project that aims to merge ideals of a fashion that treats each garment as a valuable object, a piece of art.

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Relief and redesign of a fixie bike, symbol-object and personal heirloom. Nicknamed ‘breda’, or rather ‘without brand’, the bike bears countless brand stickers on its frame.

BRAND NEW BREDA is the representation of the oxymoron that characterises an object that, despite being without brand, is loaded with a thousand others. The title imitates the beginning of the track ‘Star67’ by Drake, album ‘If You’re Reading This Is Too Late’.

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Connecting the Giudecca Canal is impossible, it would mean draining the Day of the Redeemer of all its ritual power. It is the façade of the church that encloses the scene that the bridge constructs, it is through it that the cermony can take place. The bond then is also established in the anticipation of this moment, which is why we want the church covered by a large curtain for a year, revealing the stage only for this festival, ephemeral in its centuries-old tradition.

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ANARCHITECTURE Matta-Clark once told an interviewer that, far from addressing humanity’s problems, most architects were not ‘solving anything except how to make a living’ 1

Yet it was not just a question of attacking architects or architectural theories. Matta-Clark writes in one of his notebooks that, ‘Design morality is valid. The functional issue was chosen because it seemed the most critical break from the beaux-arts, histrionic garbage. It was valid for its time. But how long has it been? Seventy years since any kind of radical reappraisal has gone on?’

It was the dead hand of such figures as Le Corbusier on American creativity that Matta-Clark resented. Yet the passionately held tenets of those he jokingly referred to as ‘The International Stool’ could be turned in an intellectual judo-move and used to develop his own conceptual framework.

This was a game that could provide real results. With the help of his fellow travellers Matta-Clark was carving out a territory within which to work.

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FIRST ACTION / CONTRETEMPS / Dear photographers, artists, creators: What happens in-between spaces, in-between times? What happens when you stand still inside the movement?

What happens in the non-space of spaces? Send us a series of original photos (three to seven), conceived as a whole and not as a set of disjointed elements, along with a few lines to explain your work. The selected works will be part of a moving tale of art and space. You have until the 11th of May to send us the digital version of your pictures at blazeh.collective@gmail.com

Blaz-eh Collective Affiche per call 2022 Paris, FR

Casual, indifferent, jaded, nonchalant, surfeited, unimpressed, bored, Blasé. La call del collettivo è mirata a raccogliere una serie di foto sul tema dell’In-between times, per un’esposizione itinerante nello spazio pubblico, precisamente a Parigi. L’affiche mira ad essere il più blasé possibile, Blaz-eh.

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Six months, casual and mutual Photography Book with Manou Pijpstra 2022 Paris, FR

The construction of this book took place progressively, over six months, in parallel with an interpersonal acquaintance.

Subjects and techniques merge, recede, differ and resemble each other; likewise, the book is designed to have neither order nor division between the authors or subjects photographed. We arrived lost in a city, and found ourselves as wandering dogs.

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Il progetto grafico MESSINSCENA realizzato dal collettivo CARANTO, si compone di una serie di riflessioni personali riguardanti il confinamento dovuto all’epidemia di COVID-19.

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Abitare“The lorry driver is at home on the motorway, yet this is not where he stays; the factory worker is at home in the spinning mill, yet he does not live there; the engineer who runs the power plant is at home there, yet he does not live there.” Heidegger on Building Dwelling Thinking cap 96 Anonimo Ideal City Archi- A long reflection could be made on the concept of Arché. Not so much for its importance in the history of the development of thought, but perhaps more for what it has left us. The etymology of the word Arché is obvious, unabashedly dual, which however carries with it a series of contradictions and conflicts that, fortunately, will never be resolved. Arché is ONE principle, the first, the last and the only; it is monist in all its essence, so much so that it sounds to us like a cosmic law, or even more simply as divine. Yet Architecture is simplified at best to a dualism, already intrinsic in the word. The architect then is able to reconcile the irreconcilable, to bring in contradictions that are incomprehensible to most; we are painting a divine.

Arrogante Attributing is always a risky act, subject to the inevitable law of ‘good or evil’ judgement. To attribute is even more dangerous. In Roman law, to arrogate was to adopt a person not subject to the parental authority of another. (Arti) Art is craft, technique. It seems that lately technical and artistic are opposed to each other. However, the art of building a wall and a painting technique are not so far apart. It is no coincidence that Heidegger, in ‘The Origin of the Work of Art’, speaks of art using as a pretext Authentic In the language of fashion, beauty that broadens the traditional aesthetic canons, including what is typical, personal, characteristic [...] of the individual and therefore authentic and appreciable. Autentico “that which is deeper as opposed to that which is more superficial; for example, that which touches the depths of any psychic existence as opposed to that which touches its epidermis, that which lasts as opposed to that which is momentary, that which has grown and developed with the person as opposed to that which the person has accepted or imitated” Jaspers, Psychology of World Views, 1918 “Part of being, considered in its authenticity and totality, is also the very end of being, i.e. Death. Death is the most proper, unconditional, certain and, as such, indeterminate and insuperable possibility of being.” M. Heidegger, Being and Time, 1927 Autogestione Lukas Fuster, videoconference wave2020 Bagno Damiana Paternò, project review, restoration design class, 2019. Ballatoio “I spent a few hours observing [...] the movement of the inhabitants in my house [...] people were up north all on the balconies in front of each door, with deckchairs and stools, to participate as actors and spectators in the theatre of themselves and the street” De Carlo, 1954 Banale notes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi4ZXU_vh2M Banalità “im rahmen der pläne des hochkommissariats des reiches zur festigung des germanismus musste ich den transport nach Berlin planen, das war mein auftrag […] im Rahmen meiner Verantwortung musste ich natürlich meine Aufgabe erfüllen” A. Eichmann, Israel trial “as part of the Reich High Commission’s plans, to consolidate Germanism, I was to plan the transport to Berlin, that was my job [...] within the scope of my responsibility, of course, I had to do my duty” Adolf Eichmann, known as ‘The Specialist’, can be seen as the perfect portrait of a banality. He was in charge of transport in Berlin during the rule of the Reich, as he himself states, he fulfilled his duty as he was commanded. It would be all normality, even a good example, if only it were not for the fact that the trains he ran so punctually arrived in Poland in the extermination camps. The trial that Hannah Arendt reports in her 1963 essay ‘The Banality of Evil’ is her object of study and the clearest demonstration of the Banality as the raw evil of those who, like Pontius Pilate, wash their hands of it under a power that is ‘too great to be contested’’. Bello and yet the Pythagorean ‘trinity’ still seems to like it very much. It is clear that the concept of the beautiful cannot be summarised in a brief definition; rather, it is to be offered as critical food for thought. In the history of aesthetics, considering it as a questioning of the concept of ‘beauty’, we often cling to the trinity, which is first indicated as Pythagorean but which inevitably comes to us today. Beauty is never only beautiful, but also true and good, sometimes a reflection of God, sometimes of man, sometimes of nature. The definition introduces ‘taste’ as a concept that becomes preponderant when the canons, typical of periods such as the Hellenic or Neoclassical, are met with rebellion, rejection or scepticism. The ugly then is what takes over the reins of the game and becomes opposition, part of, or beauty itself. So what is beautiful and what is ugly? Brutto Movie, spaghetti western, Sergio Leone, 1966 Brutto Miuccia Prada, t-Magazine, 2013 Brutalismo Referred to Torre Velasca, Milan, 1950, BBPR. The project, often considered one of the cornerstones of Italian Brutalist Architecture, is as imposing and expressive as the Gothic Duomo and the Filarete tower at Castello Sforzesco. The tower is iconic and a translation of a modern attitude that is capable of translating the language of the past. CAD Sara Marini, project review, Design Laboratory 2.

Caos One speaks of deterministic chaos to indicate a property of systems governed by perfectly deterministic laws of evolution, such, however, that a minimum difference in the initial conditions produces enormously different evolutions; given that the initial conditions, in real systems, are always affected by an even minimal uncertainty, the state of the aforementioned systems ends up being absolutely unpredictable after a certain interval of time, giving rise to the so-called butterfly effect (see butterfly). Unlike deterministic chaos, stochastic c. concerns irregular and unpredictable behaviour, resulting not from the intrinsic dynamics of the system itself, but from external perturbing agents that act in a completely random and uncorrelated manner. Città Constant Nieuwenhuys, New Babylon (1959-1974) was born as a theoretically universal structure capable of colonising the territory by branching out and relying on a mesh of sectors, the basic unit. Conceived for the homo ludens who is a fully free individual and conscious of being able to act on the world by recreating it through creativity and free play, a fundamental form of learning. Archigram, Ron Herron, Walking City (1964) are 400-metre long and 220-metre high housing structures resting on eight legs, which allow them to move. Herron’s images caused a sensation. The enormous mobile machines of Walking City landing in front of Manhattan, camping in the desert or emerging from the sea in front of an Algiers in which Le Corbusier’s Obus plan has been realised indicate, however, that architectural research cannot stop, limiting itself to the management of the ordinary and the feasible; and they anticipate the hope, which will be embraced by the students of 1968, that the profession can finally project itself towards utopia.Superstudio, Casabella no. 361 (1972), the 12 ideal cities are characteristically and structurally conceived radical utopias. They are entitled: City 2000t, Temporal Cochlea City, New York of Brains, Spaceship City, City of Semispheres, The Magnificent and Fabuolous Barnum Jr City, Cone City with Steps, The “Ville Machine

Habitée”, City of Order, City of Splendid Houses, City of the Book. Superstudio’s work moves, when viewed in its entirety, increasingly in the direction of abstraction and at the same time progressively moves away from architecture as a practical discipline, as a constructive activity. Carattere Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), In Contribution à l’études des types psycholgiques (1913) and in Psychologischen Typen (1921), he classified certain types of character, a classification later taken up and systematised by the Anglo-German psychologist Hans Jürgen Eysenck (1916-1997) in The Scientific Study of the Personality (1946) and in The Structure of Human Personality (1970). Three types of ‘character’ would result from these studies. Climax Aubrey Beardsley, illustration (1893), depicts Oscar Wilde’s Salome kissing the severed head of John the Baptist. Black and white print on parchment. Cliché Marshall McLuhan, From Cliché to Archetype (1970). A sort of 200-page perceptual dictionary (in which, by the way, the introduction is under I) in which the assumption is “discover the dimension of archetype that is locked up in every cliché” and these are ubiquitous and stereotypical elements in an anaesthetised modern society. To cope with this cliché effect, it is necessary to activate the evocative power of archetypes. According to McLuhan, technique as a ‘mere tool’ is one of the fundamental clichés that must be eradicated and unmasked instead as the ‘environment’, as the ‘form that shapes the content’ that are capable of shaping the contour. There is a need to return from the cliché to the archetype.

Comodità Anna dello Russo, 10 lessons for a style shower for H&M (2012). “If you feel comfortable, you never get the look” is now quite unfashionable after Birkenstocks stole the show from the 12 heel on Phoebe Philo’s Céline catwalk Costruzione OMA Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau, S,M,L,XL (1995), cita nel dizionario Iakov Chernikhov, la costruzione di forme architettoniche e di macchine. Conversazioni Giancarlo De Carlo, Pierluigi Nicolin, Conversazioni su Urbino (2018) Degrado Nor.Ma.L. 1/88; lessico UNI 11182:2006 Demolizione Demolition of the statue of Christopher Columbus, St. Paul Minnesota, 11 June 2020 Desiderio Platon, The symposium (314 a.C). Eros is, for Aristophanes, the desiring force that drives humans ‘towards one another, and which (...) attempts to make two into one and to heal human nature’. Those desiring beings that are in fact humans, have as their archè the splitting of the wholeness they were and as their telos, as their aspiration and project, the return to a wholeness. If life is desire and desire implies lack, life is in fact, structurally, the movement of a lack that, however, can never, exhaustively, be filled. Desire, as Socrates would later explain, is the one who stands in the middle between mortal and immortal; it could be daimon. domus Gio Ponti, Incontri: un’ora con Gio Ponti, Rai (1975). Dicotomia We divide the interval [a, b] into two equal intervals considering the point x₁=(b-a)/2, and calculate f(x₁). Se f(x₁)=0, we have found an exact solution, otherwise a solution can be found in the interval at whose extremes the function assumes discordant values. Let us choose such an interval and determine its midpoint x₂ as before. We choose one of its two intervals by the same method and proceed to subdivide the chosen intervals. We obtain a succession of points x₁, x₂, ..., xn, ... which converges to a solution x0 of the equation. We have, |xn-x0|≤(b-a)/2 per n=1, 2, ...; we can then easily approximate a solution. Dinamica Recommended exposure times for photographing a motorbike, a cyclist, a runner at medium-slow speed using the panning technique. Edificio Batiment in French, a curious correspondence with the definition of ship, vassel; reminiscent of Le Corbusier’s ship Eccezione The moment we quote Cicero with ‘the exception confirms the rule’ (wrongly as he had stated ‘Quod si exceptio facit ne liceat, ubi non sit exceptum, ibi necesse est licere’ or ‘if the exception makes an action illegal, where there is no exception the action must be legal’) if we reasoned logically, we would not be confirming but rather refuting. Empirismo Popular saying. It could be misinterpreted as a sceptical-critical attitude, but it is often the anthem of those who place experience before knowledge.

Epoche in philosophy it is ‘suspension of judgement’ Eternità Jorge Luis Borges Extrude Quando UsaEstrusioni è attivato, i comandi di Rhino che creano solidi e superfici semplici useranno gli oggetti di estrusione quando possibile. Quando UsaEstrusioni è disattivato, Rhino utilizzerà oggetti superficie e polisuperficie. Fabbrica Rif Turbinefabrik AEG, P. Behrens, 1909 Facciata Elements of architecture, OMA. Project title WAVE 2019, Supervoid. The project consisted of a demolition of the facade concept of the Venice Pavilion of the biennale. The building encloses the space, acting as a barrier, the perfect ‘idiot’ building.

By overturning, knocking down or piercing the façade, the biennale would open up, reversing the painful situation behind it.

The intervention was articulated as the splitting of the façade into four points and the removal of the space now used for exhibitions, replaced by four elements exiting and communicating between the interior and exterior of the biennale. Project title WAVE 2020, L. Fuster. The project is built on the assumption that Venice lived as an underground city during the epidemic.

The project takes shape with the ‘fall of Christianity’, i.e. the demolition of the facade on the field, and the sinking of it, to create an underground space with a kind of pressure movement. Falso. Falso derivato the transformation of a word with a terminology that totally changes its meaning. “burro (butter) - burrone (gully)” muro in falso which is not built as a continuation of a similar vertical structure, but rests on a horizontal structure (beam or floor). Futuro rif Team X, Manifesto Doorn Frammento Rome that enters the search is the one worn out by ruin and neglect. It is that of Antiquities and Prisons. Fragments of monuments that are too large and cannot be reassembled. Fragments that remain fragments and do not seek a cathartic unity.

Rome is the image and essence together of complexity and palimpsests in which epochs and events are nothing but a register to establish the extent to which the modern devours the ancient in a frightening struggle for survival of the ‘elements’ of the Eternal City. Cage The Ship, caged wings, 2012 Genio Remo Bodei, Le forme del bello in riferimento a G. Moretti, il genio, Bologna, 1998. Gioco The Sims, a simulation video game, allows, with 3D drawing software, to build a house Gioco Constant Nieuwenhuys, New Babylon, 1959-1974 Griglia rif Superstudio, Monumento continuo Grattacielo Aldo Rossi, Franco Raggi interview for Modo, 1983 Habitat Team X, Manifesto Doorn Hotel Rif Shining, Stephen King, 1977 and Stanley Kubrick’s film of the same name, 1980. Hotel inspired by the Stanley Hotel, located in Estes Park, Colorado. Idea three different networks of neurons that must function in a particularly integrated manner, each of which performs a particular function in the creative process. The first, represented mainly by the posterior cingulate cortex, generates new ideas by fishing in memory and making mental simulations; the second, represented by the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, selects the best ideas and sends them to the next network; the third, represented by the left anterior insula, evaluates and processes the final idea. Ipertesto in computer science, a non-linear set of documents with information of various kinds (texts, images, music tracks, films), linked to each other by means of logical connections and cross-references (links) that allow the user to construct an autonomous reading path each time Isola Massimo Cacciari, l’Arcipelago Labirinto rif Labyrinth born from the collaboration between Fondazione Cini and Fundación Internacional Jorge Luis Borges, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his death. Logico Definition symbol in mathematical logic Linea rif Sverre Fehn, The poetry of the straight line Linea Parallels, Eugène Guillevic Materia Reference is made to dark matter, a hypothetical component of matter that, unlike known matter, would not emit electromagnetic radiation and is currently only detectable indirectly through its gravitational effects Metafora dal greco μεταφορά, da metaphérō, «io trasporto» Metropolis rif Metropolis, Fritz Lang, 1927 Monumento Aldo Rossi, l’Architettura della città, 1995 Monumento Louis Kahn, Monumentalità, 1944 Normale “A very ambiguous and confusing term: because it sometimes designates a fact, which can be scientifically ascertained, and sometimes a value attributed to this fact by the speaker, by 55

virtue of a judgement of appreciation he makes on its behalf. The shift from one direction to the other is frequent in philosophical discussions” André Lalande, Vocabulaire technique et critique de la philosophie, 1962. Occhio “The eye is the lamp of the body; so if your eye is pure, your whole body will be enlightened. But if your eye is spoiled, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great will be the darkness!” Mattew 6: 22-23 Ostacolo FW19 di Act N.1 proposes discordant and richly decorated looks, which on the whole give sensuality, strength and dynamism, given in particular by the arrangement of the mattresses, arranged along the catwalk. The models are forced to make movements that are unexpected, at times strange, but which allow a complete dynamic vision of the clothes.Panoptikon Jeremy Bentham, Panopticon ovvero la casa d’ispezione, edited by Michel Foucault and Michelle Pierrot, Venice, Marsilio, 1983 The concept of the design is to allow a single guardian to observe (opticon) all (pan) the subjects of a prison institution without allowing them to understand whether or not they are being controlled at that moment. The name also refers to the Argo Panoptes of Greek mythology: a giant with a hundred eyes who was therefore considered an excellent guardian.The idea of the panopticon, as a metaphor for invisible power, has inspired thinkers and philosophers such as Michel Foucault, Noam Chomsky, Zygmunt Bauman and the British writer George Orwell in his novel 1984 Panoptikon “The iconographic deterrence of the old is left intact, sparing the new the embarrassment of having to ignore or express the idea of incarceration, incompatible with its aspirations” OMA, Koepel Panopticon Prison, 1980 Parassita “The parasitic organism is distinct from the host both formally and spatially, but linked to it by a state of necessity (of soil, facilities, meaning, etc.). The experiments and realisations that adopt the parasitic relationship enter the urban design and areas of more recent expansion as a comment on the design found and as a criticism of the lack of public spaces and services in the succession of boundaries that sanction the privatisation of land. They represent an invitation to rethink the ‘capabilities’ of design and its relationship with the arts and sciences, but above all the necessary link between architecture and city design”. Domus, Parasite Architecture, 10 May 2010 Partecipazione Rif Architettura della partecipazione, Giancarlo De Carlo. De Carlo uses the weapon of participation, permeating the design process with the lives and demands of its future users, engaging on a deeper level and going beyond the conception of architecture as a merely creative fact. Architecture can be saved if it becomes an integral part of the cultural process of a community, if participation becomes the means by which society constructs its horizon of existence, its “space”. Politica Def 1: Science and technology, as theory and praxis, which has as its object the constitution, organisation, administration of the state and the direction of public life. If we consider the administration of the state, perhaps it is preferable, from experience, to answer absolutely no. Def 2: Practice in accordance with certain principles or directives in the exercise of an activity or decision-making power. If design is primarily taking a position, then yes, undoubtedly Progetto Rif Heidegger, Being and Time, 1927. The cure: “man does not come before his existence: he is thrown into it; he cannot go back to before the fact that he exists, he cannot be the cause of himself. But neither does being thrown precede man (it has the character of a cause), as something that simply happened to him: man is always projected forward in a project (he is not yet what he will be)’. In essence, man finds himself ineluctably able to be only what he is, because he does not precede his own existence by choosing this or that possibility, but ‘is free’ only to explicate his own existence as he has found it ‘by being thrown into the world’; existing as he has ‘already found himself’ to be, he is at the same time the foundation, the unique condition, of his own possibilities. man does not come before his existence: he is thrown into it; he cannot go back to before the fact that he is there, he cannot be the cause of himself. But neither does being thrown precede man (it has the character of a cause), as something that simply happened to him: man is always projected forward in a project (he is not yet what he will be). In essence, man finds himself ineluctably able to be only what he is, because he does not precede his own existence by choosing this or that possibility, but ‘is free’ only to explicate his own existence as he has found it by ‘being thrown into the world’; existing as he has ‘already found himself’ to be, he is simultaneously the foundation, the unique condition, of his own possibilities. Quota “flying at high altitude” and the one that allows a submerging submarine to keep its periscope operating Rifugio Gottfried Semper, Carpet and Decoration Theory Resistenza A. Gramsci, Odio gli indifferenti Rovina Rif Louis Kahn, Monumentality, 1944 Scheletro From gr. skeletós, der. di skéllō ‘drying’ Strada rif Le Corbusier, Urbanism utopias, 1922 Surrealismo Surrealist Manifesto, André Breton, 1924 Standard One of the most famous jazz standards in history, by Mercer-Kosma. Talento rif Greek unit of weight, varying in value according to place and time Trinità “In all these things that are to be done, the aim must be solidity, utility and beauty.” De Architectura, Vitruvio, 15 a.C. Tempo “I can say that I know that if nothing passed, there would be no past time, and if nothing came, there would be no future time, and if nothing was, there would be no present time. But as for the two times past and future, in what way are they, when the past, on the one hand, no longer is, and the future, on the other, still is not? As for the present, then, if it were always present, and did not pass into the past, it would no longer be time, but would, on the contrary, be eternity. If, consequently, the present, in order to be time, succeeds in so far as it passes into the past, in what way can we say that it is, if for it the true cause of being is only in so far as it no longer will be, so much so that, in fact, there is only one true reason for saying that time is, except in so far as it tends not to be?” Augustine, The Confessions, 1968 Tempio Massimo Cacciari, abitare-pensare, casabella, april 2014 Università From lat. universitas -atis ‘totality, universality’, der. di universus ‘universe’ Utile “It was a unanimous consensus who mixed the useful with the sweet’ Horatio, Ars poetica Utopia Il Nuovissimo Melzi, 1926 Utopia Superstudio, Opere, 19661978 Venezia Rif campaign slogan promoted by the LISC student collective at Ca’Foscari. Thanksgiving in Venice. It was, always has been and always will be the city so contemporary as to be out of time. Every nook and cranny is constructed, purely artificial and thoughtlessly human-scale. The most anthropocentric city in the world, the one that shows itself as a set of façades to those who visit it and swallows up those who choose it like a digestive system. Venice is alive, it breathes, but it does not move unless we abandon ourselves to its constitution. The water comes in and goes out when it pleases, it is not up to us to decide the tides. Venice is the city of those who choose to live the lagoon and the stone like an amphibian. I thank and reproach Venice for being the most beautiful city in the world. Virtual “Future facts of virtual madness now Seem always to be governed by this love we have For useless, twisting, our new technology Oh, now there’s no sound Because we all live underground” Virtual Insanity, Jamiroquai, 1996 XL Universal size for T-shirt XL Thanks to SMLXL, OMA, Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau. A modern encyclopaedia of architecture that has lifted spirits, ideas and debates. First published in 1995, it continues to be a graphic, conceptual and design reference. OMA is not only a great studio and Koolhaas an archistar: they are still fixed points for an architecture and urbanism that breaks free from the constraints and trivialisations we have inherited since the third generation of moderns. SMLXL is the bible of unconventional, sophisticated, and at times irreverent architecture and graphics.

(Credit for this is also due to its Dutch origin, yet nothing has ever turned out so well at Winy Mass). Zero Curious how ‘0’ is the perfect graphic representation of emptiness. It shows itself as a hole, as an absence within a circle, matter.