New Urban Village in Christchurch

Whakaaturanga Kāinga Nohoanga (The new urban village project) is an international competition to design and build a new place for living in Christchurch's Central City.

Alessandro Gottardo shouts out loud

Alessandro Gottardo was born in Pordenone in 1977. He studied in Venice and in Milan and he won numerous awards, particularly in the United States. Though his young age, he has already found a place in the history of visual communications. Among the others he worked for: Among the others he worked for: United Airlines, Volkswagen, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Esquire, Newsweek, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Le Monde, The Economist, Guardian, Random House, Penguin Books.

Low Cost Design Exhibition

Low Cost Design is a touring art exhibition with more than five hundred pieces and structures. These objects are related to the change in the use of manufactures or parts of the territory, through the aware actions of people, from all over the world. Pieces and structures, born to solve a specific task, are transformed into other problem solvers: the merit belongs to all of us, spontaneously creative artists. 

POP ART DESIGN

Pop Art is widely regarded as the most significant artistic movement since 1945. Reflecting on the cult of celebrity, commodity fetishism and media reproduction that permeated everyday life in the postwar era, Pop Art continues to shape our society’s cultural self-understanding to this day. A central characteristic of Pop Art was the dialogue between design and art, which is now being explored in “Pop Art Design” at the Vitra Design Museum as the first-ever comprehensive exhibition on the topic. 

FRAME MOOOI AWARD

Frame and Moooi are both leaders in the design industry; glossy pages of Frame magazine focus on cutting-edge interiors, while Moooi strives to create spectacular furnishings and lighting. Combining the interests of both organizations, the Frame Moooi Award was launched to target interior designers and architects who custom created a lamp or furnishing for a specific interior. There’s just one condition: these must be products that can lead a life outside the interior for which they were designed.

Odile Decq - Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

Martedì 23 ottobre, presso l'auditorium della Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, si terrà la conferenza organizzata da alessiostudio all'interno del ciclo "d'ARCHITETTURA - esempi di qualità della stagione 2012/2013".

Matteo Pericoli: the King of cityscape

Pericoli’s drawing is poetry: at once monumental and graceful.