Category Archive for "Insight"

Bassikonou [or not?]

Being directly involved in a situation is a twofold circumstance: if from one side you are in the position to have experienced…

Accessible materials

These notes stem from the idea/opportunity for a workshop aimed at investigating the contribution of alternative building techniques as enhancement of potential…

Congrats

A few days ago, some good friends of ours, Milinda Pathiraja and Ganga Ratnayake of Robust Architecture Workshop, have been awarded the Silver Award at the 2015…

Profitable investments

From our specific point of observation the current, systematic genocide of migrants  and refugees [expressions often confused and confusing] has one cause…

Gaza situation at a glance_Chapter one: WATER AND SANITATION

Photo by The Guardian I arrived in Gaza 10 days ago on behalf of Handicap International, an International NGO working alongside people…

A Cat in Gaza

A photograph showing a cat is everywhere on the media. The cat is painted on what is left of a wall in…

Lesson from Mario Ridolfi

Mario Ridolfi, internationally less celebrated than collegues Libera or Moretti, has been the master of the generation of architects grown up immediately after…

The recycle of art/the art of recycle

The consumer fury applied to the building industry caused and causes devastating amount of waste, in all senses. The intrinsic unsustainability of…

Public toilets in contemporary architecture: coups de théâtre or real issues?

If you pay just a little attention to this topic surfing the internet, it becomes immediately evident that public toilets are a…

Camp planning and winterization systems in Afghanistan

  The refugee camp in Afghanistan [Khost] is at first sight a paradox; in reality a [further] demonstration of the intrinsic instability…

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