New article in Engramma - La tradizione classica nella memoria occidentale

It was a pleasure and a privilege to receive the invitation to participate in a special issue of Engramma magazine on Toy Architecture.

I took the opportunity to finally tidy up the many ideas, concepts and content that I had developed over the last 12 years that I taught the Architectural Toys course at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto.

Number 213 of June 2024, on top of that, has a group of authors of the highest quality, all around a theme that has gained space and robustness over the last few years until reaching a worthy epistemological status.

The article is written in Italian, but being online it is easily translatable into several languages.

Enjoy the reading!

https://www.engramma.it/eOS/index.php?id_articolo=5556

Architectural toys - first semester 2023-2024

This year I condensed even more the theoretical part of the course. It's true, over time and with so many repetitions, the result is to be increasingly synthetic and focus the course on the most important and pertinent things.

Sometimes fewer things in more time is more effective than a barrage of information that is of little use to students.

The result was more careful, more complex and more interesting work. The students themselves felt the difference and, once again, enjoyed the course.

Arte en Juego - Diálogos de apolo Y Dionisio | Siglo XIX-XXI

On the 24th, 25th and 26th of January I was in Barcelona at the invitation of my dear friend Oriol Vaz from the University of Barcelona. The challenge was irrefutable: to talk about the relationship between art and play at the Picasso Museum in the company of people like Juan Bordes, Michel Manson or even Alfons Torelló and Lurdes Crirlot. 

And it was what I expected it to be: wonderful. Everyone spoked different languages (Catalan, Spanish, English, French, Italian, Portuguese) but they all talked about the same thing. Like friends who meet after a long time and always resume the conversation at the same point, with the same enthusiasm. All in a magical place where we feel like guests of the great Picasso.

The seeds were planted for many future projects, including a book, an exhibition, and much more... stay tuned!