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Notes from creative journey: “The thinking behind design”

  I begin again to write after a long time of silence and after I have kept at a safe distance the world of writing. It’s not easy to return on one’s steps, especially if you are a visual creative who uses the writing for the necessary to explain the own projects.  It’s hard to explain to people who read you, the reasons which take you to open a publication on web, it’s hard to not think how you can make known the arguments each time you will discuss if you know these arguments are not common but there are few people interested them.  I think the first post must be a preface on what we would like write in the following posts. It must represent our imaginary line on which to pin down the topics we would like to talk about, a reference for all those times we lose sight the pourpose for which to write, a note to be read every time it’s missing the reasons to continue, an engagement to be revise to the need to reorganize own work in a new viewpoint and under new scenary.  I have always ass

Urban landscapes between staticism and dynamism

At present in architecture in Italy it’s necessary decision making that in the existing istitutions and clients quite missing.    In the new area of expansion of our cities in the twentieth century to resolve the crisis of accomodations post war and post worker immigration it’s arrived yet another quantity of low quality architectures leaving the usual unsolved puzzle of expansions.  In the current suburbs it’s evident the problem of urban renewal together the creation of service for citizen not still available.  The designers often prefer get caged in overcome discussions rather than deal with problems of real request of society or prefer don’t decide on development path deal for major questions rather than delude the ranks of supporters accumulated in the time.   In our society with age-old story, designers prefer to talk about troublesome accademic discussion as the identity of italian architecture rather than modern style.  This isn’t identity but staticism whether these discussion