Designed by Alvar and Aino Aalto in 1929, the Sanatorium of Paimio, Finland, is widely regarded as the first example of modern architecture applied to healthcare. Sanatorium is a Latin word commonly ...

Daniel Libeskind is one of the most culturally multifaceted contemporary architects. Though the general public knows him mostly for his Jewish Museum in Berlin and the (unfortunately unbuilt) design ...

Il Padiglione Zero, situato all’ingresso ovest del sito espositivo, introduce ai temi che stanno alla base di Expo 2015: la storia del rapporto fra l’umanità e il pianeta, le trasformazioni del ...

These days, Italy is not particularly renowned for its consumer electronics products; yet, there was a time, in the ’60s, when an Italian company was reputed to be the “European response” to American ...

Differently from other more “conceptual” ones, the exhibition in the Japanese pavilion at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale is quite traditional in its layout and clearly focused on built ...

The early Fifties were a truly unique period in the history of automotive design. Europe was eager to leave the tragedy of the Second World War behind and to celebrate, also through new individual ...

Entitled ‘The Laboratory of the Future’, the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale has caused much controversy. Many defined it as “an architecture biennial without architecture” and deplored an excessive ...

If you wonder what most people intended a “futuristic” computer to look like in the late ’70s, this little-known Dutch PC can give you an answer: it had to be something you could expect to see in the ...

The Pavilion of Lithuania has been awarded the Golden Lion for the best national participation at the 58th Venice Art Biennale. Combining art installation and theatrical performance and set at the ...

While approaching the Tate Modern after crossing the Thames by the Millenium Bridge, a visitor can hardly imagine what is currently happening behind the glorious former Bankside Power Station which is ...

The Allmannajuvet Zinc Mine Museum is an industrial archaeology museum – sited in the municipality of Sauda, southern Norway – designed by renowned Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. Part of the Norwegian ...

Recently, at an exhibition in Milan, I had the rare occasion to see a restored version of the famous Maison Bulle (The Bubble House) designed by French architect Jean-Benjamin Maneval in the early ...