Sant’Anna dei Palafrenieri (Roma) – Architetto: Jacopo Barozzi, detto il Vignola La chiesa, a pianta ovale, la prima del genere nel panorama architettonico romano del Cinquecento, fu edificata su disegno di Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola intorno al 1570. Essa fu realizzata dall’Arciconfraternita dei Palafrenieri (Sediari pontifici) del papa, istituita da Urbano VI nel 1378. La chiesa fu…
“Vi sono già zone della mia vita simili alle sale spoglie d’un palazzo troppo vasto, che un proprietario decaduto rinuncia a occupare per intero.” (M. Yourcenar, Memorie di Adriano)
via fotografiamagazine.com “It’s hard to believe anyone could live in an alienating, depersonalising environment such as the skyscrapers you see in these terrific pictures by German photographer Nick Frank. And yet, hundreds of thousands of people do: details you notice at a closer look (mainly the clothes left hanging out to dry) reveal these are not the empty…
(text and photos via formagramma.com). In 2011, a young man reached out to us about the possibility of designing a house for his mother, a person of few belongings, who lived in a house with severe structural and sanitary problems. Ms. Dalva has lived for decades in Vila Matilde, an outlying neighborhood in São Paulo,…
“I decided I would become a tourist in my own city- I wanted to see the London that I ignored, to explore the landmarks and the quirky history. I started researching for interesting facts and began thinking about how I could photograph the sites in an original way. My first idea was using a cut-out…
“My career started when I was a child and I built my first sandcastle on the beach in Genoa, where I grew up. Making things has always been a pleasure for me – happy hands, happy mind – and making sandcastles was my training in fantasy. Now, as an architect constructing buildings like the Shard,…
