International magazine of architecture and project design january/february 2019
International magazine of architecture and project design november/december 2018
Past, present and future in Italian architecture
Through a journey made up of pauses and fresh starts the magazine continues its narration on contemporary Italian architecture which, overcoming the impasse of the lack of systematicity, moves by juxtaposing
International magazine of architecture and project design september/october 2018
The urban dimension or the extraordinary beauty of the ordinary
A city is a uniform grouping of buildings in which human beings perform their daily activities, while monuments are structures devoted to special occasions or architectures of a
International magazine of architecture and project design july/august 2018
Architecture: the art of stimulating perceptive skills
Architecture, just as the design of an object of use, intentionally embrace our senses, even if such interaction is inevitable and intrinsic in a discipline, that of the project, aimed at
The event introduced by architect Laura Andreini and Sergio Risaliti, in collaboration with Area magazine, is included in the cycle of conferences "Paradigma. Il tavolo dell'architetto" at the Museo Novecento in Florence. In the fifth meeting the protagonist is the architect Mario Cucinella, curator of the Italian Pavilion at
International magazine of architecture and project design may/june 2018
Living in a complex system
The density, that is, the proximity among people but also among people and things as well as among houses, has suddenly become a positive and appreciated value of modernity, contravening the idea that
International magazine of architecture and project design march / april 2018
Architecture versus wine
There are events and circumstances of which architecture seems to feed more effectively than others, or rather there are human activities that require the art of building, in other words, the contribution of that discipline,
International magazine of architecture and project design january/february 2018
Hong Kong: a unique city
Each issue of Area, six, or rather seven per year if we consider the "plus" issue during the Salone del Mobile dedicated to design, is the subject of a long period of investigation
Architect Laura Andreini opened a series of conferences at the UEL School of Architecture in London in November, presenting and exposing the work of the studio and its concept of architecture. "Architecture is constantly confronted with many different landscapes, whether economic, cultural or social. These same landscapes define the
International magazine of architecture and project design september / october 2017
How to listen to architecture
In Italy, an entire generation of architects, and perhaps a large part of the following ones too, were brought up reading Bruno Zevi’s invitation to find out “Saper vedere l’architettura“ (How
at the Folies architecturales du 21e siècle competition - promoted by the city of Montpellier.
The special mention was conferred yesterday 15 March at MIPIM. Archea Associati's proposal brings together the components that characterise the Ovalie district: the tree, the tower and the door.
Ten years on, Cantina Antinori's project has won first place in the World's Best Vineyards 2022, the prestigious ranking of the most impressive wineries from around the world. The jury that decides the winner is made up of more than 500 wine connoisseurs, sommeliers and travel and tourism experts, who submit
On 11 April '24 at the Infoprogetto event "Edilizia sostenibile e design creativo: una visione futuristica" at the Rocco B. Commisso Viola Park sports centre, Laura Andreini presented two of Studio Archea's major projects: Viola Park and the National Stadium of Albania in Tirana.
The aim of the event
At the MAXXI in Rome, on 10 May, Laura Andreini took part in the "Forum rigenerazione e restauro: la valorizzazione del patrimonio architettonico e dei beni culturali", organised by Confrestauro and curated by Platform, with the aim of creating a dialogue between various professionals in the sector on their visions
At the Pistoia Nursery Campus, on 15 June 2024, architect Marco Casamonti gave a lectio magistralis as part of the programme, spread over three days, involving various world-famous architectural realities. The objective of this event, open to all, is to create a network of connections between the world of work and
At the Palazzo Bo in Padua, on 7 June, Marco Casamonti was a guest speaker at the conference "The life of man, the future of the planet: one health, the landscape and the '15-minute city'" and participated in the session with the review "How cities change after covid" and "
On the occasion of "Creatività per il domani", a project promoted by LABA - Libera Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze (Free Academy of Fine Arts in Florence), Casamonti took part in the series of meetings aimed at students, teachers, and professionals from the world of culture and the
Within the art of the project, every project is an interior or, more exactly, the drawing of a place that is always inside another, up to the end of the universe of which we know what it encloses, while we have no way of knowing what is outside it.
Miracle in Milan
A child follows a funeral procession into a city suspended between poverty and modernity, mud and marble, grief and hope. It’s the dramatic, moving opening scene of the movie “Miracle in Milan“ one of the most celebrated examples of Italian neorealist cinema. Through
International magazine of architecture and project design november/dicember 2021
Cultural identity and design
The first time I went to Vietnam after a few days spent observing the colonial architecture of Ho Chi Minh city and its new buildings, the result of a not very electrifying “
International magazine of architecture and project design september 2021
Living design
In recent decades we have been protagonists of a complete renewal of society; every social scheme built after World War II has been totally transformed as a result of complex factors that also include the concept
When I try to explain in a readily understandable way what I mean by the difference between a unilateral gesture and the value of an architectural project or design, I resort to a simple but, I think, effective parallel. A single column stands for nothing other than itself, and
On Saturday 13 July 2024, a work by Emilio Isgrò, produced in collaboration with Archea Associati, was inaugurated in Piazza Matteotti in Montale: a tribute to the fallen police and state servants, consisting of a sentence by General Carlo Emilio Dalla Chiesa: "Certain things are not done out of courage, they
Alfonso Femia signs the tenth appointment of the review Il table dell'architetto, the series of temporary exhibitions created in collaboration with the magazine AREA which features famous architects, collectives and architectural firms on the international contemporary scene. From 29 April to 5 October 2022, the internal loggia of the Museo Novecento will
On 28 April, for the cycle "Paradigma. Il tavolo dell'architetto", the ground floor loggia of the Museo Novecento in Florence will host the opening of GENDER GAP, curated by Laura Andreini, a gallery featuring the projects and maquettes of 20 international female architects: Carmen Andriani, Sandy Attia, Cristina Celestino, Izaskun Chinchilla,
We are pleased to announce that the video “Water is Another Matter”, about the project of the Ex-Magazzino Vini - Eataly Store in Trieste, was awarded the Bronze Medal at the Sound and Vision International Film & Technology Festival in New York. The short film, that narrates the relationship
From 20 April 2018, the Museo Novecento will periodically host "Paradigma - The architect's table", a series of meetings featuring famous architects, collectives and architectural studios from the contemporary panorama designed by Sergio Risaliti and curated by Laura Andreini.
During the most dramatic period of the health emergency that hit
The event curated by architect Laura Andreini is part of the cycle of conferences "Paradigma. Il tavolo dell'architetto", the periodic project organized in collaboration with the Museo Novecento of Florence, a series of events that celebrates famous architects of the international contemporary scene. In this seventh event, scheduled from
International magazine of architecture and project design may / june 2017
Public Nature
It is certainly not the first time that Area deals with landscapes. Although it tackles topics that refer to projects barely describable through the narrow field of observation of the photographic image, incapable of defining or
Between 20 October- 19 December 2013, Archea is exhibiting at the Biennial of Architecture and Contemporary Art in Shanghai, a show organized in a former industrial district of Shanghai, once for manufacturing ceramics.
The event strives to be an opportunity to keep up to date and dialogue on recent developments in
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