A bright cloud at Arsenale

Construction workshop of a luminous bamboo structure Article by Emilio Antoniol, published on OFFICINA* 21 | April – June 2018 For years, the design studio Architetture Precarie, based in Castello, Venice, deals with installations, workshops and temporary installations defined as “rural”. In fact, the attention to the use of natural …

The theatre of usefull

How to install an important without wasting resources Interview with Rural Studio by Alessandro Zorzetto, published on domus  on October 26th 2016 Art, in its numerous forms, is often seen as an activator of circumstance, a catalyser of motions, passions, ideas and actions. On a local level, it may help to spontaneously and …

Towards a precarious architecture

by Alessandro Zorzetto, published in the volume P.I.G.S., edited by Escuela Moderna / Ateneo Libertario, Milieu Edizioni, Milan, 2016, pp. 68-77 The other day, in a moment of overflowi, I thought it might be a solution to temporarily dust off the Epicurean lathe biosasii to find a moment of serene …

Architecture and degrowth: the alternative becomes reality

DISCOVERING CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE IN THE SOUTH OF THE UNITED STATES by Alessandro Zorzetto and Francesca Modolo “I decided I had enough. I closed the office, bought a motorcycle, and went into the desert to work with the people on their ideas and dreams” Nader Khalili, 2005 The idea of a …

Parasite Blues

published in AR Architetti Regione n. 47, March 2011, pp. 24-31 Interview to Alessandro Zorzetto∗, by Giovanna Astolfo∗ The programme is always changing faster than the buildings themselves; parasitic architecture fits into this discord by making up for the natural resistance of the built environment. In a European reality that …

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