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Stefano Mirtis

facebook wall

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timeline archive:

a personal collectionof curiosities

Stefano Mirtis

facebook wall

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Stefanos facebook timeline 27/52 2012

Rive d'Arcano

Gianugo Polesello, Villa C.M.

Gianugo Polesello is one of the most interesting

(and most difficult to understand) Italian XXth

Century architects.

This villa is one of his best works. Here some moreimages: http://www.flickriver.com/.../fot...

/sets/72157603507047023/

Unfortunately, it is not easy to find materials

(especially on-line) on him and his work. We willhave to go visit this house.

Thanks to Adelaide Testafor the link.
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Kyiv

The Raft of the Medusa

"They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in

seeking worlds."

(Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)

http://en.wikipedia.

org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusahttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Kyiv/116620501733934?ref=stream

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U10

Your Twitter Stories in a

Book

Here a very nice project, taking full shape.

Looking forward to see next steps

http://www.tweet-book.it/
http://www.tweet-book.it/https://www.facebook.com/udieci?ref=stream

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Two Artists I Like...

There was this birthday party. And I was lucky

enough to sit between two of the Italian artists Ilike the most, two very simpatico chaps.

I was so happy, I wanted to take a picture to

celebrate this nice event. To the left you can see

Simeone Crispino (aka as one half ofVedovamazzei), to the right is Enrico De Paris.

Life can be sweet (and Italian artists dress in

uniform).

More about Vedovamazzei at: http:

//vedovamazzei.com/w/

More about Enrico De Parisat: http://www.

enricotdeparis.net/
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@bghella Party

The other day, it was Barbara Ghella's birthday.

Ms. Puri organized a grand dinner in the beautiful

piazza del Carmine. Lots of guests, lots of drinks,

lots of instagrammers, lots of music, lots of lots...

@home piazza del carmine.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/home-piazza-del-carmine/144367202320209?ref=stream

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Angelo Mangiarotti

Baranzate. Leggiti al riguardo il racconto di Davide

(Vargas) nei Racconti di Architettura, Pironti.

Angelo Mangiarotti died yesterday in Milan.

As we can read (as headline of his website):

"Happiness comes from correctness".

http://www.studiomangiarotti.com/home.php?

lang=it&tipo=&id=

In the image above, the Mater Misericordiae

church in Baranzate (Angelo Mangiarotti, Bruno

Morassutti - with Aldo Favini for the structures),

1956/1958.

More images at: http://www.facebook.

com/media/set/...

1921/2012, Baranzate
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The Toaster Project

One of the nice things of my trip to the Akademie

Schloss Solitude, was to meet Thomas Thwaites,the author of the well-know "Toaster Project".

Very nice project, very nice lad. Now busy into his

new project (to build the house of the future, if I

understood correctly).

Here are the links you need:

The Toaster Project page: http://www.

thomasthwaites.com/the-toaster-project/

The book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Toast...

/dp/1568989970/ref=sr_1_1...
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Brindisi

A Regasification Plant and a

New Landscape

A very nice project by Alessandro Scandurra

(2009/2010).

Finally, the whole thing (the industrial bit and the

new landscape bit) arrived to a stop and was never

done. But it could be that finally we will see it

built.

Who knows?

More images at: http://www.scandurrastudio.

com/works.htm

(click on: Parco delle Energie, Brindisi).
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Palazzolo Acreide

Museo dell'Informatica

funzionante (Museum of

Functioning Computer

Science)

Here, one of the multiple activities where

Gabriele Asbesto Molesto Zaverio is the main

character.

A fantastic museum between Catania and Siracusa.

http://museo.freaknet.org/

(the link is in Italian, but you should find an

automatic translator because it is worth)
http://museo.freaknet.org/https://www.facebook.com/pages/Palazzolo-Acreide/112769432070736?ref=stream

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Palazzolo Acreide

Gabriele "Asbesto Molesto"

Zaverio, The sandbender

He lives in a dammuso in the heart of Sicily.

He does all kind of different things. But the thing

he likes the most is to build computer in wood.

He is the founder of Radio Cybernet (the first

italian streaming-only internet radio), the

FreakNet MediaLab in Catania (first free public

Unix lab where people can have a shell account

and use internet, also the first hacklab in Italy),

and the Poetry HackLab in Palazzolo Acreide.

He is also a filmmaker and a musician. He made

some short and long films many years ago, and

also Ihemade very weird and strange music.

Last but not least, he recently wrote a book about

Haiku, Koan, Zen stories and other things.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Palazzolo-Acreide/112769432070736?ref=stream

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New York, NY, United States

D-Crit: #platform

A new collaboratively produced publication has

been devised by architecture and design writerMimi Zeiger, designer Neil Donnelly, and students

ofthe recent SVA Design Criticism Department's

(D-Crit) Design Writing and ResearchSummer

Intensive.

Keep reading the article on Domus magazine: http:

//www.domusweb.it/en/news/d-crit-platform/

Very nice idea, indeed!

Also, thanx to Lucy Giuliano for the link!

Here you have link #1: http://freaknet.

org/asbesto/

Here you have link #2: http://zaverio.org/
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Catania

FreakNet MediaLab

This FreakNet MediaLab is another very special

place.

It's a community, it's a research center, is a place

where a lot of curious people are busy doing allkind of projects.

http://www.freaknet.org

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreakNet

For instance, it is the place where it was

developed the Netsukuku peer-to-peer routing

system.

http://netsukuku.freaknet.org/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netsukuku

Thanx to Antonio Scarponifor the link.
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Istituto Marchiondi

Brutalism for Kids

It is a masterpiece of Italian architecture from the

1957.

It was a juvenile detention center, but it was

designed and built with a totally new vision. Fluidspace, open environments. For those times it was

a revolution (it would be even more today).

Currently abandoned, waiting for a restoration.

Very special, indeed.

Here some images of the building: http://www.

flickr.com/photos/ingridbd/4648074009/

Thanx to Andrea Balestrerofor the link.
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Vietri sul Mare

Paolo Soleri's Factory
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vietri-sul-Mare/108572722500022?ref=stream

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Firenze,italy

Leonardo Ricci's House

"It would perhaps be best if everybody could build

their own house and if children could be taught

to lay bricks in the same way as they learn to

speak."

(Leonardo Ricci)

Read this very nice article and you'll get a lot of

interesting thoughts (and images): http://www.

domusweb.it/.../leonardo-ricci-fluid-spaces/

Thanks to Adelaide Testa for the link.
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Emilia and Photographies

Once we are at Villaggio Artigiano Ovest in

Modena, we shouldn't miss to meet WilliamGuerrieri.

He is a photographer and he did a very interesting

work on the Village:

http://www.comune.modena.it/.../att...

/villaggiogiardino.htm

Apart from that, he knows a lot about

contemporary landscapes, photography, EmiliaRomagna

Here above, an image from: "Oggi nessuno pu

dirsi neutrale" series (1998).
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MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Boetti goes to New York.

Here above: Alighiero Boetti. Autoritratto (Self-

portrait). 1993.

Link to Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan: http://www.

moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1238

Very interesting to read in the website that: "The

exhibition is made possible by the generous

support of two anonymous donors".

Very Boetti, indeed. Not one anonymous donor.

No. Two.

A & B

Some of the works on show: http://www.moma.

org/m/tours/EN/tours/320.iphone_ajax
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Catania Via Plebiscito

Horsemeat (on the Street)

One of the nice features of Catania are the

trattoria on the street where you are served

delicious horse-meat all night long. They started

as "macelleria" (butcher), they they started to

cook and serve meat on the spot, next they added

a table outside, then some more tables

Finally, you go there from late afternoon till

morning, and there are various streets filled with

tables, food, people, smoke and all the rest.

The head as an electric resistance inside,

henceforth it it always hot. So he needs to keep

pouring water to refresh it. Once the water hits

the head, a lot of smoke (steam) is produced.

One of the most fantastic works by Alighiero

Boetti. Not by chance it is a self-portrait...
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Trebisacce

Felice Gualtieri's Orchard

Felice Gualtieri is a very fine designer. He does a

lot of stuff here and there. But one very special

thing is his orchard.

Bravibravi!

Here the link to some more images: http://www.

facebook.com/media/set/

Official link of the exhibition at MUMOK: http:

//www.mqw.at/en/program/detail/?

event_id=7073

And here some more: http://sof.mqw.at/...

/15/die-nacht-der-fliegenden-polkadots/

I love Apparatus 22 work.
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Bergamo

Fantasie Macabre(s)

Paolo Vincenzo Bonomini, an Italian artist who

decorated many civic and religious buildings and is

best known for his "Fantasie Macabres," a series of

scenes depicting living skeletons (see above),

which was commissioned by a parish in Bergamo,his hometown.

He produced 6 paintings as part of the series,

many of them featuring recognizable caricatures

of well-known townsfolk; another (guess which?)serves as a skeletal self-portrait.

He shared some images with us and here we are.

Once the GranTour is in Calabria, a stop to

Trebisacce is quite given

Here a link to one of his nicest projects: http:

//www.criticalgarden.com/wpcg2/?p=18
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Pietraperzia

Boomboom Architecture

"Student journeys which were important to me

were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw

these buildings, and that is where you're able to

grasp what things mean."

(Ben Nicholson)
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pietraperzia/112666625412628?ref=stream

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Acquaviva Collecroce

Six Fountains and a (Mute)

Church

The GranTouristas project now enters a new

phase. Not only we are listing and describing all

the most interesting place to see in Italy in the

year 2012. Also, we are marking down who are the

people to meet.

For instance, here we are on the balcony of

Cristina Senatorehouse. She is waiting for us to

show us her works and to explain us some more

about this curious place on top of Appenine

mountains

Thanx Cristina.
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Foligno

Maurizio Cancelli, the

Shaman

In the small village of Cancelli (near Foligno),

there is a man called Maurizio Cancelli (easy to

remember). He is a shaman, he is an artist, an

educator and lots of other things.

Andrea Balestrerogave us the link. A very special

place to go to meet some very special people.

Every summer they have workshops and all kind of

activities to join. Here is the link: http://www.

viaindustriae.it/

Here another link (in Italian): http://www.flickr.

com/photos/buferanera/68...

The image above is related to Manufatto in situ 6,

workshop by Raqs Media Collective. Curated by

Emanuele De Donno, design by Mal Veisse.

Installation design by VIAINDUSTRIAE.
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Palo Alto, CA, United States

Udacity

From their website:

"We believe university-level education can be both

high quality and low cost. Using the economics of

the Internet, we've connected some of thegreatest teachers to hundreds of thousands of

students all over the world."

Here the link: http://www.udacity.com/

Thanks to Gioia Guerzonifor the link...
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Catania

Benedictine Monastery of San

Nicola l'Arena

It is an impressive complex, the second biggest

monastery in the world. The construction of the

actual architecture started in 1558 and it was

finished (with a project by Giancarlo De Carlo) in

2004. I've spent half of a day wondering around

and I have seen about 1/4 of what I was supposed

to see.

Extremely impressive, indeed!

Here some of the images I took there: http:

//www.facebook.com/media/set/

Here some more on Wikipedia (Italian version):

http://it.wikipedia.org/...

/Monastero_di_San_Nicol%C3%B2

Founding a monastery is a continuous process of

sawing to build your design and trying to dispose
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of the sawdust, while you're always being forced

to reconstruct. You have to give it your all and it's

never done."

(Saint Benedict)

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