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Sicilian Incompletion (or Unfinished?)
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Article by Giacomo di Girolamo, journalist.
There is a new generation of journalists, artists, architects, researchers in Italy.
Born between the ‘70 and ‘80 they received from their parents a Country with one of the most high public debt in the world, a blocked social system in which doesn’t exist generational replacement and a landscape and a territory destroyed by little and big abuses.
In Italy for example there are 395 unfinished public buildings: swimming poolS, barracks, schools, monuments under construction since the mists of time and never completed due to the most different reasons.
The artists’s collective Alterazioni Video has tried to create a map of this Italy of the “Incompletion”.
A dot for every unfinished building on the geographical map of our boot. Sicily deserves a special attention. In Sicily the “Incompletion”, became an ordinary element of the landscape. There is not a village in the island without its nice unfinished building in reinforced concrete.
In the past fifty years Sicily produced more than 160 unfinished buildings.
Specially in Giarre, a little city on the volcano Etna’s slopes, close to Catania, there are 12 unfinished buildings. Every building has its own history: some of them have been abandoned before the end of the works due to the bankruptcy of the construction company; others have still building-sites ongoing since many years ago.
“We could do a truistic path” thought Alterazioni Video. And they did it. The project that aim to do of Giarre the “archaeologic park of the Sicilian Incompletion” will be presented during the Festival of the Incompletion that will have place in Giarre from the 2nd to the 5th of July. Three days in which artists, architects, journalists, will dialogue about the incompletions with workshops, debates and installations. |
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Lord Richard Rogers
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Lord Richard Rogers One of the most influential British architects of our time, Richard Rogers noted for his modernist and functionalist designs. He was born in Florence in 1933 and attended the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, before graduating from Yale School of Architecture in 1962.
At Yale he met fellow student Norman Foster they set up architectural practice as Team 4. In 1967 the practice split up, and Rogers joined Renzo Piano. |
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Stardust
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Article by Serena Del Puglia
Graphic design by Serena Del Puglia, Francesco Ducato
Perhaps the solution lies beyond the clouds: “Starwars” there where heavy industry combines with high technology, pure war. Or if not, there is always the simple production of the effect itself, the ephemeral, the “state of the art” to make clouds.
Yago Conde, Architecture of the indeterminacy, 1994
Stardust* team - February 2010
Carla Athayde
Francesco Ducato
Achilles Cosmopolitan’s
Serena Del Puglia
Contacts: www.stardustudio.com
www.facebook.com/stardustudio
e-mail: info@stardustudio.com |
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BIOOCTANIC
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Design: UPI-2M
The 3-d renders are made by studio FREYA.
ISSUE
We already are the witnesses to some facts, which are occurring in our time:
1. Some states are giving more subsidies for crop-production which are essential to bio-fuel production, than they are subsidizing farming, crop-production and growing edible plants.
There are many appeals from United Nations which are pointing out the problem of food shortages and food production for poor countries.
In addition, the EU is also conditioning their members to use 5-10% of bio-fuel in transportation.
So, what is really happening really happening is that more and more of agricultural areas are used for crop-production for bio-fuels instead of using those areas to grow - food.
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