https://youtu.be/Sbn4I8oLnis?si=9t29EjfqRTQmc3KF Trees communicate and move The time has come to fundamentally reconsider our relationship with nature. If you believe that trees don’t communicate or move, you’re mistaken. That’s what Italian...
Kengo Kuma and Leonor Antunes reinvent the space of a museum, the CAM Gulbenkian in Lisbon
Fabulous collections The Gulbenkian name is globally synonymous with fabulous collections. It first belonged to an Armenian businessman, Calouste being his first name (1869-1955), who managed at one time to obtain a 5% share of all oil...
Bijoy Jain in Paris: the extraordinary architect who creates sensations , spaces and sometimes buildings
https://youtu.be/NoGANqQNVvA?si=Kz_70c8Zc7W4YK3h Breath of an architect It is a true experience. This exhibition stirs in the visitor an unusual sensation of tranquillity and harmony. “Bijoy Jain. Studio Mumbai. Breath of an Architect” is on...
A tribute to architect of the future Richard Rogers, in one of his buildings, suspended in the air
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhJroTSJock&feature=youtu.be Grand history of architects The grand history of 20th-century architects is made of cross-pollinations and collaborations. Take Norman Foster (Pritzker Prize 1999). He was the...
Hans Ulrich Obrist: urgent confessions from a child of art
https://youtu.be/3rlfatblqWQ 1968 The story begins in 1968. The year that was defined by a generation who, across the world, proclaimed their desire for freedom. 1968 was also the year that marked the death of the French turned American artist,...
In Venice for the Biennale, the architecture constructs a little and deconstructs a lot: interviews
https://youtu.be/o547_HrrfJE Impactful buildings Architecture these days is facing two major strong and opposing trends. On the one hand it is expressed through its conquest of large-scale sites across the planet, through the construction of...
Inside the mind of Norman Foster at the Centre Pompidou
https://youtu.be/ViGaTcP8XPw Travel hopefully “To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.” This famous phrase from Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson can be perfectly applied to the new large-scale exhibition at the Centre...
La Maison de verre: the myth of one of the great landmarks of 20th-century architecture at auction
https://youtu.be/AT9mQcrSZRE A landmark of 20th-century architecture The Maison de Verre is nothing less than one of the great landmarks of 20th-century architecture. Located in Saint Germain des Près in the courtyard of an 18th-century...
Lacaton and Vassal: the 2021 Pritzker Prize winners in their own words
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOcPjIvN450 Ego Are they starchitects? On 16 March 2021 the famous Pritzker Prize was awarded to a French couple: Anne Lacaton (born in 1955) and Jean-Philippe Vassal (born in 1954). Partners in life and in...
Rem Koolhaas: the architect’s great cultural revolution fills the whole Guggenheim in New York…Finally
There was a very short window of opportunity to visit the Countryside , the future exhibition at the Guggenheim in New York last February, thanks to Covid. The show, which is more theoretical than aesthetic and is overseen by the Dutch...
Palazzo Butera: one of the most beautiful palaces in Sicily is all about Art and … immigration
City of migration Palermo is a fascinating city, and one that’s sparked a lot of conversation in recent years. Firstly, this is due to its current international relevance as it’s one of the major sites of migration from Africa to Italy, where its mayor Leoluca...
Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza has created a new frontier for art: the Ocean
https://youtu.be/XPCRNcp-bh4 Seal levels One of the barrage of threats to contemporary mankind is the threat of rising sea levels. Threat in Venice They say this will be such that by the end of the century it is due to trigger the...