100 years from the birth of Vico Magistretti, Fondazione Magistretti along with the Italian Cultural Institute present and exhibition dedicated to the acclaimed Italian designer and architect, whose groundbreaking work, conducted throughout his highly prolific sixty-year career, left a profound mark both on his native Milano as well as on the perception of Italian design both at home and abroad.
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Art & CultureThe idea of integrating architecture with nature has always been in the mind of architects and landscape designers. Throughout our evolutionary history we tried to combine these two concepts together. We have reached a moment in history where it is no longer necessary to sacrifice one for the other. Stefano Boeri is the first architect who had the opportunity to build a residential tower covered in trees, his “Bosco Verticale” (vertical forest).
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Just when you think there is nothing new under the old Italian sun, comes along a book like "Dream of Venice Architecture," whose photographs of Venice by Riccardo De Cal can only be described as sublime.
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For the upcoming March 2 initiative aimed at promoting an important sector of Italian creativity, the Italian Cultural Institutes of New York and Los Angeles are hosting world-famous architects to mark the occasion.
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Matteo Renzi named Renzo Piano chief advisor to his Casa Italia program, a long-term project for natural disaster risk prevention.
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Learning something new about the historical devotion to the Madonna Nera del Tindari in Manhattan’s East Village.
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On April 10, the Nation Museum of 21st Century Arts (MAXXI) located in Rome, revealed exciting things to come this year. The first Italian museum dedicated to contemporary art opened in 2010 and hopes that with some new changes, more people will be inclined to visit.
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Italians architects continue to be world leaders in design. Renzo Piano, 77, is the creator of no less than 21 projects for museums all over the world; only the most recent is his redesign for the once stodgy Harvard Art Museum in Boston. Now Stefano Boeri, 58, has just won the $62,000 International Highrise Award for his “Bosco Verticale” (Vertical Woodland) twin high rise-towers of 111 and 78 floors respectively in Milan.
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In our third installment with the icon of Italian design talks about good design that everyone can afford by adhering to a few criteria that he has developed over the span of his career
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Giorgio Villa is a talented Italian architect who came to New York to follow his passion. Where is he now? Working for one of the most famous American architects in the international scene: Richard Meier.