Getting to know Venice in person - following the teacher of one of the most ‘basic’ subjects studied during the first year of Venetian faculty of Architecture (Elements of architecture and relief of monuments) – walking along the calli and inside the houses, has been a fundamental experience in my (...)

If we ask Venetians “what is the city you want?” Many people report issues regarding the residence/liveableness/possibility of living in Venice. If this one is the most sensible issue for who wants to live in Venice, an issue raising high social tensions and linked to other issues such as job and (...)

Paraphrasing Simmel, […] the connection between all elements constituting a modern city has to be based on the project of an urban landscape that should not be originated by the chance redevelopment of existing landscapes; these situations, indeed, are regulated by technical rules that are often (...)

In Venice, since the 1980’s, the conspicuous arrival of two archetypical figures of immigration in Italy has been registered: “vu cumprà” (men selling small paraphernalia on the streets in order to get by, usually coming from Sub-Saharan Africa) and “badanti” (Care attendants, people who take care of (...)

Designed by Mario Botta, one of today’s most acclaimed architects, the new congress centre included within the perimeter of the old Querini Stampalia Palace served as a pretext for a public reflection on Venice’s destiny on the occasion of its inauguration. Since the Sixties (“Il problema di (...)