Tag Paolo Schianchi

11-02-2014

Alexander von Vegesack – founder of Domaine de Boisbuchet

The object communicates, it is an image, and architects, designers and artists are venturing into this new creative frontier. Alexander von Vegesack takes a closer look at the issue from his personal point of view as art collector.

07-02-2014

Floornature: social media meets architecture and overturns the rules

Here is an abstract of a lengthy interview conducted for the cowinning communications portal on November 14 2013. An informal chat in which we discussed our identity, which we now wish to share with our readers, because we believe that the more we know about each other, the better we will get along.

21-11-2013

Meeting at Parsons with the founder of Vitra Design Museum

On Thursday, November 21st, the School of Constructed Environments (SCE) of Parsons The New School for Design will host Alexander von Vegesack, founder of the famous Vitra Design Museum.

04-10-2013

Paolo Schianchi, The image is an object

Visual marketing is now a university discipline in Italy too, thanks to an in-depth text on the subject by Paolo Schianchi, entitled “L'immagine è un oggetto. Fondamenti di visual marketing con storytelling” (“The image is an object: The basics of visual marketing with storytelling”). An architect, designer and teacher, Schianchi approaches the issues in three different ways: the story; the essay; the photographic image. An additional level of reflection is the one that is not contemplated by the author, but by the reader, through the references and images the text calls up in the reader.

22-05-2013

Panzeri: family home in Canton Ticino

In the plan for this family home in Sorengo, near Lugano, Ticino architect Attilio Panzeri expresses the results of the studies begun by great 20th masters such as Louis Kahn and Le Corbusier which lead to a concept of architecture as reading the landscape. Structural materials such as concrete and glass submit to the decoration of wood and colour, while light reveals the geometry that regulates the forms of contemporary architecture.

26-04-2013

Artplay: a centre of architecture, art and design in Moscow.

A disused pressure gauge factory is turning into the new cultural hub of creative Moscow.

11-12-2012

Next Landmark Tour

The Order of Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects and Conservation Workers of the Province of Parma hosted the first event on the Next Landmark Tour celebrating the contest held by Floornature, the architecture and design culture portal, presented as a sneak preview at an event held during the Biennale in Venice.