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A Collection of Italian Board Games (Mostly 19th to 20th Century)

August 26, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 5 Comments

Kindly offered by the artist and architect Maurizio Cilli through his facebook account and mostly based upon the Game of the Goose. This collection … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media Tagged With: dont do this at work, illustrations, italians, past futures, politics, psychogeographies, satire, social, world weird web

Ugo La Pietra – Per Oggi Basta (“That’s it for today”) and Other Videos

May 23, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Ugo La Pietra, artist and architect, beginned in the 60's his activity of research and experimentation (through performances, drawings, photography, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, Art, italians, politics, psychogeographies, social, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

Ugo La Pietra, La Casa Telematica, 1971

November 22, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Dpr-barcelona Flickr sets are already worth visiting, but check out this collection about Ugo La Pietra's La Casa Telematica. (and if you're in Paris … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, electronic arts, illustrations, industrial design, information graphics, italians, literature, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

La città capitalista, by Giovanni Brino

October 30, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

An ambitious title for a 1978 obscure yet brilliantly illustrated book by italian scholar studying urban planning in UCLA Giovanni Brino. Just … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, industrial design, italians, literature, past futures, politics, urban chronicles

150 years of technological evolution from Italy

October 27, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Vittorio Marchis, teacher of History of Technology and History of material culture, is the author of a book that will be published next Nov 2nd, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: italians, past futures, Technology, visions, world weird web

Vestirsi è facile / Dressing is easy, Archizoom on Casabella 1973

August 22, 2011 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 3 Comments

Looking among my dad's old numbers of Casabella, I've found lots of interesting and not-very-known articles by 70's Italian radical architects. We'll … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture Tagged With: Architecture, form of form, illustrations, italians, past futures, visions

Superstudio, Italian Radical Architects

March 2, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

Superstudio was an architecture firm, founded in 1966 in Florence, Italy by Adolfo Natalini and Cristiano Toraldo di Francia. Superstudio was one of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, italians, past futures, Radicals

Steve Albini on “Fake Italian”

July 27, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Steve Albini explains "Fake Italian" and the many different ways to use the language. This interview was filmed for the upcoming documentary on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: italians, people, Sounds, world weird web

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