Lachlan Turczan’s installation – ‘Lucida’ – transforms light into matter, crafting spaces where the intangible becomes tangible, and perception shapes reality. MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE, Milano Design Week 2025 Making the Invisible Visible: installation by the American artist Lachlan Turczan in collaboration with the Google design team, Milano Design Week 2025, 7-13 April, Milano, IT. What is made visible in…
We hope to return to the fundamental material nature of what we do… Architecture is essentially all the immaterial processes of society solidified in physical form. BJARKE INGELS, Materialist Manifesto for Domus 2025 Introduction Different interpretations are possible after the quotation above, made by the talented Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, on the occasion of the presentation of his ‘materialist manifesto’,…
What, then, do we mean with the word ‘place’? Obviously, we mean something more than abstract location. We mean a totality made up of concrete things having material substance, shape, texture, and colour. Together these things determine an ‘environmental character’ which is the essence of place. In general, a place is given as such a character or ‘atmosphere.’ A place…
This article offers a critical response to the conventional interpretation of architecture, rooted in the second half of the nineteenth century, which takes space as the discipline’s primary interpretive key.[1] This long-standing view often overlooks a fundamental fact: for any space to exist—whether architectural, sociocultural, or even pseudo-physical—place must already be on the stage. As I argue at RSaP, that…
By the term ‘spatiophilia’, I present the result of the photographic survey I have been conducting for a couple of years now on how people perceive and use the concepts of space and place with communicative intent in the streets of Milano, Italy. The present epoch will perhaps be above all the epoch of space. MICHEL FOUCAULT, Of Other Spaces…