- Museums of resistance and counternarratives The recent explorations in Brazil and Mexico, carried within the theoretical framework proposed by the Rise-Horizon 2020 Cocreation partnership, provided us with a new opportunity to reflect on the role of creativity and culture in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. This theme is implicit in our decennial exploration of modern urban peripheries, starting from the collaboration with the Havana Biennial and […]
- Rio de Janeiro – Denied City Museu da Maré Watch out! Danger! Get away! The word favela, like so many others, has more than one meaning. Favela, originally, is the name of a tree native to the northeastern caatingas. Covered with thorns, its contact with the skin can cause blisters and painful inflammations. Watch out! Danger! Get away! During the war […]
- Athens- Hellinikon International Airport Employed before by the Luftwaffe and then by the US army, it became with Aristotele Onassis, owner of the Olympic Airways, the first airport in Greece moving 11 millions of passengers a year. Luxury cabin service, porcelain and fine crystal glasses, stylish uniforms designed by Coco Chanel (1966-1968) and Pierre Cardin (1969-1971) leaving an indelible mark on […]
- The future has designed us In Belgrade to prepare the Power and Architecture exhibition, we had the pleasure to be joined by ogino:knauss’ founder member, dj and sound producer Miki Semascus. The exploration of the spatial context was naturally complemented by an investigation of the soundscape that finally took the form of a playlist of great Serbian/ Yugoslav / Balkan […]
- Architecture in Russia before, during and after Stalin In London for “The Center Cannot Hold” conference, we had the opportunity to meet Vladimir Paperny, author of Architecture in the Age of Stalin, and to revive in a conversation with him our interest on the Russian avant-garde and the fate of modernist urbanism under and after Stalin. Here you find some of his answers regarding: the […]
- The Barbican In London for the opening of the Power and Architecture season at Calvert 22, we grant ourselves the time to pay tribute to one of the most iconic brutalist realisations of last century. The Barbican is the noblest example of the periphery at the center typology. In the very heart of the City of London, a residential unit hosting more […]
- Berlin Mehringplatz Few places in Berlin are more emblematic than Mehringplatz of the concept of “periphery at the center”. Situated in a very central location of the city, only few hundred meters from the foundational nucleus of the city in the Fischerinsel, it is at the crossroads of two main axes of the city, the north- south […]
- Yugoslavia in between In December 2015 we had the opportunity to record a conversation with the Serbian architecture historian Vladimir Kulic, whose writings on Yugoslav spatial production, and in particular the book “Modernism in Between”, have been an important source of inspiration for our researches on Belgrade. We publish here three long excerpts of this interview, in a […]
- Narkomfin narratives We are honoured to reblog here the essay by Vladimir Paperny originally published in the book O’NFM_6: Narkomfin, edited by Danilo Udovicki-Selb, published by Ernst Wasmuth Verlag Tübingen, 2015, given the kind permission of author, editor and publisher. Apart from being flattered by our film Dom Novogo Byta quoted in it as a source, the piece […]
- Organiziranje, priručnik za delegate Yugoslav third way to socialism provided an important model for heterodox marxist approaches looking for a “socialism without a state”. Henri Lefevbre was among those significantly impressed and inspired by the Yugoslav experience, and the notion of autogestion as expressed in particular by French and Italian movements in the post 68 scenario is strongly influenced by Yugoslav saoumopravljanje.