Monday, January 24, 2011

Nice Things To Say In A Baby Book



Salvatore D'Agostino

" Among other things, the only dynamic albafetizzante, in an otherwise worsening in recent years was fueled by the Internet that has fueled the inclusion of a vulnerable population that was slightly below the minimum threshold of access to the tools of reading and that has exceeded the stimuli found online . (Tullio De Mauro) a
On December 4, 2008, the magazine's website
Living
changed in blog, opening i suoi post/articoli ai commenti. A due anni dall'inaugurazione ne ho parlato con Fabrizio Gallanti - vicedirettore della rivista e curatore della sezione on-line - perdonate la deviazione verso Chiasso. Colpa mia.
Salvatore D'Agostino In uno dei primi post scrivevi: «Per chi non se ne fosse accorto Abitare è un blog, e siccome siamo blogger una delle cose che facciamo di più è guardare altri blog». A due anni dalla sua creazione, alcuni aspetti del blog che non mi convincono: the implementation of articles published in the journal with the use of fake photographs (below, above and / or in the middle); the failure to identify (through a feed) of the articles posted by different authors; the idea to treat the photographs as the background music of local essential corollary;
what I call syndrome mainstream or the opening of the magazine with contributions from readers with the headings: The biennial
the people (publications of the biennial 2010 photos and pictures sent in by readers), Mirrors (autopresentazione del proprio studio di architettura),
<26@abitare
(articoli e commenti degli under 26) o il tremolante videoblog
della passata Triennale affidato a Fabio Novembre;
un’impaginazione densa tipico dei portali Web che sembra dire: « benvenuto qui puoi trovare tutto quello che cerchi basta andare a zonzo, cliccando un po’, con la tua manina ». Perché vi è questo divario tra la rivista cartacea - dove in ogni pagina il testo e le immagini sono designed in a consistent manner - and spasmodic inclusivism the online version includes the apparent inconsistency between the text and images? Fabrizio Gallanti The use of a site is quite different from that of the paper. Our goal was to be deliberately inclusive and inconsistent, converting the site into a place of multiple plots. spasmodic inclusivism is exactly a description that fascinates us. Users are then navigating, getting lost, following a few threads running select one that best interests them and building a continuity in time, especially with some headings. The rapporto testo immagine, rispetto alla rivista, è purtroppo determinato dal software, wordpress, che non permette la stessa agilità di impaginazione della carta. Quando dicevamo che Abitare è un blog, volevamo sottolineare che lo scheletro che lo sostiene è quello del blog, ossia uno scorrimento cronologico, dove l'ordine è dato dal tempo, ma dove non esiste sostanziale differenziazione tra i contenuti. Il divario è voluto quindi, trattandosi di due mezzi di comunicazione comunque diversi.
In questa veste Abitare non rischia l’indistinto? Ovvero l’essere in rete senza nessuna forte specificità, confondendosi con il mainstream?
Esiste un desire for "relevance", ie to provide information to the public about what is happening now, at this time. This explains the accelerated flow of posts. Post, however, are the result of the sorting, filtering, not only internal debate to the editor. The specificity is given by the tone and choices, which also combine aerial disciplinary heterogeneous, not only those closest to architecture. The opening to other fields (visual arts, graphic design, film, etc ...) is peculiar to Italian magazines, and Residential: it's not magazines that provide information such as technical, but rather platforms that keep their readers aware scenarios are more extensive, which can be an inspiration for their work and their research. Soon it will be in a library book that celebrates 50 years of living: looking at all the selected articles, it appears this form of eclecticism caught, that does not harbor interests in architecture and languages \u200b\u200bclose and defined. If you follow the post of the site, I revealed the mix of topics and interests, some, perhaps mainstream, some niche, some discoveries, explore some curious, some references to other sites, other written especially for us. In short, the site is a reflection of the wider community that supports residential. It also allows the audience to build their own "menu", avoiding authoritarian imposition on our part. What is a blog for an architect? The application itself does not make much sense. It's like saying "What good is a software architect?". It depends on which blog, depends on which architect. In very general terms most general, if we say that a blog provides information to an architect is good to receive rich (but as a book, a movie, a journey, a conversation). The architecture magazines displayed a chronic inability to debate with each other ed'influire in policy-making in progress.
confining a registrare - rispettosamente - i grossi eventi.
Tralasciando argomenti poco glamour come:
ricostruzione di città o territorio distrutti da eventi ‘fisiologici’ naturali;  
ricostruzione di città e territorio quasi distrutti dal ‘popolo del cemento’ in poco meno di sessant’anni;   piano casa;
revisione della legge Merloni ovvero i concorsi;
 

the political use of architecture;
construction of the largest in Europe: the Messina Bridge; the construction of a myriad of 'centers business in rural infrastructure;
disqualification 'professional' of the architect;
emigration of Italian architects (not to be confused with the talent).
    • What is a magazine of architecture?
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  • Mi sembra una lista estremamente "italiana" nei suoi temi e nei suoi accenti. Ora le riviste italiane, tali non sono dalla fine del secondo dopoguerra. Si tratta di riviste internazionali pubblicate in Italia (da quando c'erano Ponti e Rogers). Per cui occuparsi dei dieci temi in basso non avrebbe senso, perché tradirebbe le aspettative e necessità di un pubblico che sta, anche, oltre i limiti nazionali. Questo ruolo, legato anche alla scelta della lingua, però mi pare che sia assolto e molto bene dal Giornale dell'Architettura
    • , che invece si occupa con frequenza dei temi che suggerisci.
  • Alcuni punti poi potrebbero avere declinazioni più "universali": 1, considering the tsunami, Katrina and Chile; 5, if you try to understand how to teach architecture in London, Los Angeles, Zurich, 6, if you look at the case of Medellin in Colombia , for example. Some issues seem to me very homegrown. Hence the exhortation, still valid, Alberto Arbasino: "We must take a trip to Chiasso and shake off our national provincialism." Even so, I often feel that we just complain and very little action is taken. What are the magazines? To build a thematic debate, presenting projects and ideas to an audience, or rather to a community. A to advance an inch even if the knowledge and information. It seems little, but it's already a lot. pick up the call and return from the trip to Chiasso. What are you proposing the Italian architecture in the international debate? The notion of Italian architecture in itself is empty. There was a phase of development on the city, the history and theory, which has had a significant impact in the late 70's, whose influence lasted until the late '80s. Since then, the very idea of \u200b\u200ba national architecture attribute is a category used questionable. Rem Koolhaas is Dutch in its expressions?
    • And Steven Holl?
  • At best it can be recognized as issues related to an Italian style, language and taste. But compared to issues of international development, there is nothing. Which is curious, given that in other disciplines, the contribution remains important as dance, music or political considerations.
The political debate? I think of all the political thinkers, or rather of political philosophy today: Paul Virno , Maurizio Lazzarato
,
Christian Marazzi (actually Ticino) Antonio Negri, Matteo Pasquinelli to
Uninomade . Many of these, in fact they are abroad. In any case, the critical reading and updating of the theories of Marxism in Italy produced continue to have an international impact.

So, if you allow us, we need a trip to Chiasso.



As a guide we use the guide to Gianfranco Bombaci

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about the recent meeting sponsored by the Swiss Institute entitled: What Ever Happened to Italian Architecture?
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"Reto Geiser, started the first day, dedicated to the past, with an introduction, whose basic assumption is indisputable: in the last century, individual figures like Rossi, Gregotti and Tafuri, and groups such as Superstudio and Archizoom, have built a culture of architecture in Italy, capable of assuming a position of prominence within the international debate. Subsequently, the sunset views of posters and has gradually brought out of the Italian architecture scene, putting aside by commercial forces and speculative. "
To be clear I add a reflection of your beloved POP Fabio Novembre:
    "Let's face it: the great masters were a frustrated group of success. They were all graduates in architecture, but were unable to build because after World War II, manufacturers were already speculators'
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  • Before souvenir photos therefore the development of concepts, often separate and apart from the aesthetic aspects. For example, the still strong echo of the thought of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown is due to their writings, rather than in their work. The same could be said of Rem Koolhaas and many others. In this sense the end of World War II until the late 70s, Italy has hosted an impressive concept to production issues, accents, interests, and not necessarily characterized by particularly exciting architecture. The case of the Tower Velasca, for example, seems symptomatic. A building of high quality, but still not great, it becomes important for the themes it touches, rather than its shape (think of the debate that triggers, with Reyner Banham in 1960 that takes a sample of the "retreat" Italian modern architecture). Thus, different shapes, often opposing positions (Giancarlo De Carlo and Aldo Rossi, for example) and trajectories mainly conceptual and abstract have been a constant cultural pivot at international level. I would say that is not only the Italian architecture to be out of the picture, but any form of thinking about architecture, not only by us but everywhere. So the lament Italian architecture, in fact conceals a nostalgia for a density that appears hopelessly exhausted. Moreover, the problem is, perhaps, that the rich cultural Italian architecture has also been a burden, preventing the development of an architecture less "thought" but done correctly (it is no coincidence that all children modernist masters, say a
    • Luigi Carlo Daneri
  • in Genoa, a Joseph Vaccaro in Bologna, Cosenza a Luigi Mario Asnago in Naples or Milan and Claudio Vender no longer been subject of study in schools of architecture for a long time). Now we are in, all without deep discourse on architecture.
  • In Italy, moreover, no interesting architecture, or even fashionable. At least somewhere else (think Spain, Chile, Croatia, Belgium, Korea, Japan), we can console leafing through magazines and visiting the works of architecture unveiled recently.
  • The frustration of the Italian architects after World War II, I would say that the sentence is just a simplification for a good conversation after dinner, where you have always joke ready.
    • "Fabrizio Gallanti reported debate on policy and how the relationship between architecture, urban planning and governance of the territory is a peculiarity of all Italian."
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Sack of Palermo the 1950-1970

apartment in Liberty Street [no joke toponymic] 4 rooms, 120 sqm on the 7th floor € 400,000




Milano 2 in this way: "SOME NOTES ON THE RISE: On March 31, 2007 was inaugurated one of the largest retail shopping centers in Europe, called" Roma Est "."



Second souvenir photos bothered to collect them). Other information, impressive, are those collected by John Caudo
, a professor at Roma Tre, the Italian property market.
Time: over the past decade, the volume of transactions of residential properties has increased from an average of 410.00 in the previous decade to buy about 700,000 in the last (including the decline of the last two years, after the crisis of 2008). In addition, the average size of Italian and professional studies' of about 1.2 people (including the owner) for study.


What can these figures mean?
Firstly the trend towards the house, not only as prima casa ma anche come investimento, ha depotenziato la domanda di progettazione per edilizia sociale e collettiva. Secondariamente, e a fronte di una evasione fiscale endemica, i dati indicano che la maggior parte del prodotto interno lordo e' reinvestita nell'edilizia privata, non solo nella vendita e acquisto ma anche nelle successive operazioni di trasformazione, che consistono spesso in ampliamenti e ristrutturazioni. Il che quindi implica una atomizzazione dei soggetti 'progettisti' che riescono a sopravvivere al di sopra di una linea di galleggiamento risibile, con piccoli progetti di intervento interno, pratiche comunali, arredamento. La mitologia della 'casa' (non a caso sempre presente nelle ultime vicende politiche nazionali - Balducci e tents to be agreed with the suppliers, the house of Monte Carlo Fini, Berlusconi's villas, mortgages extinct for Members who change for the majority) is complementary to the substantial lack of interest in space and public amenities (for which, among 'there are no other money). This neglect leads to a demand for architecture asphyxiated.

The complaint refers to the lack of competitions in Italy, points to the result of the fact that for decades the public sector does not perform public works steadily and with a considerable mass, museums, schools, kindergartens, hospitals, barracks, squares . Compared with France, Germany, Spain, the level of intervention is ridiculous enough varcare la soglia di una scuola elementare, probabilmente in un edificio dell'800 per disperarsi. È abbastanza ovvio che quando ci siano dei concorsi (riservati alle opere simbolicamente più importanti), questi siano spesso vinti da architetti stranieri, perché più esperti e allenati (e perché offrono poi maggiori garanzie di successiva realizzazione - lo studio italiano con dieci persone e i software piratati non promette nulla di buono). È abbastanza ovvio che sempre meno frequentemente gli studi italiani partecipino e vincano i concorsi all'estero (mentre agli italiani che si sono spostati in altri paesi, le cose non vanno male, anzi). Io penso che una moratoria delle facoltà di architettura per 5 anni, sarebbe excellent. We do not accept any students and graduates. At best you un'iperscuola of excellence, national, with 100 students per year and the best teachers around. A normal architecture of Pisa. Perhaps the Bocconi Luiss or could try. Close the option would allow the market to absorb the excess of graduates and give time to rethink the teaching of architecture, leaving much of the current teaching staff went on board, possibly providing some form of renewal. Moreover, the methods of selection of future teachers do not suggest anything positive on the horizon, since it attempts to incorporate those who already is more or less internal the system, the various precarious, researchers and contractors (often children and relatives, unfortunately, other ordinary members). Now this view of the precarious university is curious: it is a sense of guilt, very Catholic, as where someone has suffered in the past, should receive compensation. But there is no evidence that researchers and contractors would be in itself very good teachers. I'd like a system like the United States where all the teachers are under contract, with renewal related funding. But very well paid, not the current peanuts, which are demeaning to all (some contractors may teach for free, the cynical scoundrels and their institution).



Perhaps repeat the state exam every five years would be a good idea. In many countries to stay the orders entered, professionals must continue to be formed, accumulating credits (by participating in seminars, symposiums, training courses). A system of this type, remove dead branches, on a question of education that could revive the possibility, putting side by side across generations. Inject a bit 'of sap in a dead scenario. You may groped several things. But my feeling is that Mourinho is right: "

Italy is like Portugal, everyone is talking about the problems and no one does anything to solve .

"Yet, as a young architect active in the field, I can not identify with this scenario. Ideologies do not recognize in past has gone, I think I have the right, and perhaps even the duty, to study, with intellectual honesty, and work history, tradition and the theoretical work of our culture, to Rossi by Tafuri, by Branzi Gregotti to, without having to be accused of being neo-conservative or reactionary. Someone, in his time and his reasons, he "killed the fathers of our generation without worrying about raising children who, by himself, have cut their teeth in a world that has changed very rapidly and has become global. Italy houses at this time many professional companies able to compete fully with the international context, through projects, exhibitions and publishing initiatives. This condition, however, will run out soon, since thirty-five young European designers are beginning to realize major projects, while our remaining on the card. The current ruling elite and intellectual in the country has to bear this responsibility, taking a critical-theoretical discourse of continuity, culturally and politically capable of interpreting, supporting and guiding new generations of designers. Or step aside. Otherwise there will continue to obsessively humming the usual reassuring rhyme: "tre elefanti si dondolavano sopra il filo di una ragnatela…». (Gianfranco Bombaci) 6   Terza foto ricordo constantly participating in competitions abroad. Those who continue to complain of 'elites' and expect munificent gestures from other generations is mistaken, or perhaps it is complicit in the system. Basically I believe that Padoa Schioppa was not so far from the truth when he accused of laziness Italian boys and girls. Big babies, he said. I think that in any Western country (not even worth the trouble to speak of the emerging countries) households have spoiled their children so much, since the very early age. Which makes them incapable of any independent action. While in the U.S., for example as banal as obvious, Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook in 23 years (or 28 Andrew Mason creates Goupon) from us, a located on the Republic or the Courier, letters of fathers and mothers (ah, the Italian mothers) or who complain that their children should go to work abroad - and in that case the author of the letter was the rector

of Luiss, Pierluigi Celli (!) - or thirty years their daughter is still precarious. If one thinks is surreal. In Italy no ruling class has to perform and can take on anything, they understood the students who are demonstrating. When they begin to understand that they must also unseat their teachers, researchers, fathers and brothers in other words, maybe it will be a step forward (because these are also the ruling class). As it says Bombaci, someone has to step aside. Now I see by the 35 year-old and a 40-year old choral movement and united and coordinated to create some form of transformation and transition. Rather, they are all waiting for openings and opportunities, to creep into the folds of the systems in place. If you look coldly the current situation is so complex, intricate and intractable that a fall in his arms, and in practice, and surveys of Censis, the prevailing sentiment is that of disillusionment. In general, and so apocalyptic, I think the whole country is in decline, slowly and inexorably, an agony that never ends, a grandfather too long attached to the respirator. Perhaps only a real e proprio crollo potrebbe scuotere qualcosa e imprimere un cambio di costume, di idee, di attitudini. Basta guardare i dati dell'Economist sulla crescita internazionale, ogni settimana, per preoccuparsi. In un mondo che cambia, l'Italia non produce nulla che interessi nessuno, né alte tecnologie, né prodotti a basso prezzo. La nicchia della qualità e del lusso, applicata a prodotti a bassa complessità (formaggi, vestiti e sedie) è costantemente erosa dallo sviluppo di altre realtà (ogni volta che partono gli imprenditori italiani in Cina o India o Brasile, convinti di invadere i loro mercati, rientrano con le pive nel sacco, perché scoprono che in pochissimo tempo, laggiù, faranno meglio). 
architecture can not suffer the consequences of this condition of gradual irrelevance. And within the system seems to implode, because I do not think there are strong pressures for fundamental change: the individual and collective representations, I think college and professional, now more and more useless, trying to survive as long, ignoring problems and putting in the worst familistic mechanisms and patronage. Well, right now, I think that the scenario is quite black.
Given prevailing individualistic reading of the company (we are still in G.), at this point that each might be saved himself, so I think that one of the few options is a one-way ticket. Thanks for the trip. January 24, 2011
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__________________________________________ Notes: 1
Tullio De Mauro (ed. F. Erbano), The culture of the Italians, Laterza, 2010. 2
Gianfranco Bombaci, What Ever Happened to Italian architecture?, Domusweb, November 10, 2010. Link

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Held in Rome on 15-16 October 2010. Link
4 Interview with Fabio Novembre, Klata, No. 4, Autumn 2010. Link

5 Gianfranco Bombaci, op. cit.
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Gianfranco Bombaci, op. cit. Living has been online since 1996.

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"if we lack a clear cultural project and high profile, if we lack the explicit sharing of an approach to architecture, especially-if-we do not have time to develop a convincing proposal, because the present set looming next Biennale? I believe in all sincerity that be architects / Italian / middle-aged, is not significant enough to form a coalition the international community "... (Stefano Boeri, July 10, 2002)
So Boer said in the letter sent to Sudjic and all'Aid'a, the association founded by Casamonti, on invitation, by the latter, Living Lonely participate in the Venice Biennale in 2002. As if to say that the problem is not only ethical but also cultural. Casamonti in recent years has the market-oriented architecture through its magazines, today the Group Il Sole 24 ore, and through its network of lobby and support that has been cross-sectional and involved most of the directors of the architectural magazines, professors and deans of the faculties. Well the theme proposed by Mirta, but it is true that there has been treated by anyone, see Espresso (in the case of Florence) and Gomorrah in the intertwining business and political figures in the GRA-architecture and Rome. It is not just the relationship between public-private partnerships we need to consider the continued absence of a political project of the city, where politicians are increasingly flatten and the logic of the market and consumption.
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