history

In recent decades, museum architecture has undergone important transformations: from a niche object of cultural interest it has become a “mass” artistic phenomenon. Today a museum is a communication tool and, at the same time, a point of reference at the level of the urban landscape.

The conception of a living and liquid relationship with the ‘fragments of space’, which characterize the urban network, will be the cornerstone in the thinking of Perec and Matta-Clark who, through an essentially individualistic approach, touched upon active experimentation of a situationist nature.

A “smoking room for private apartments” designed by Dunand, with walls over three meters high in lacquered wood, lacquered metal and gilded wood installed between 1930 and 1936 in the Parisian apartment of Mademoiselle Colette Aboucaya.

A tour through the halls of Villa Necchi Campiglio, a historic residence in the heart of the city of Milan (part of the “Case Museo di Milano”) that combines luxury, architecture and art thanks to its numerous collections and the wonderful garden that surrounds it.

Brief excursus of the ancient history of Matera, told through the perspective of the architect Pietro Laureano and the director Pier Paolo Pasolini who have been able to grasp its magnificence through their works.

Dalisi’s design and experimental thinking is not confined within four walls, but has always been open to the context through laboratories and architectural experiences in the suburbs of Naples.

A journey through the ancient districts of Kyoto to discover the machiya: the typical traditional Japanese houses built in wood, with tatami floors and sliding doors.

A guide on how to experience the design works in Copenhagen, where every place in the capital continues to amaze its visitors.

An ancient urban layout survives in Sammichele consisting of vignali, modest rural houses in local stone that help us rediscover a simple life that we have set aside for a long time.

In 1953 Nivola published some illustrations of his vision of the “Pergola Village” which, sixty-eight later, comes to life in the streets of the town of Orani in Sardinia.