The exhibition Unfinished in the Spanish Pavilion at the 15th Architecture Biennale focuses on a large number of uncompleted and/or abandoned buildings in Spain, a consequence of the frantic expansion ...

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 ...

2015 has been an exciting year for Milan; along with the World’s Fair, two major cultural venues were inaugurated this year in the city: the Mudec – Museum of Cultures and, in May, the new Fondazione ...

The necropolis “Banditaccia” in Cerveteri, near Rome, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the world’s largest Etruscan archaeological site. History and general description The necropolis is located ...

The oldest public museums opened in Italy during the Renaissance. The Capitoline Museum and the Vatican Museums are perhaps the first institutions that we could call “museums”, although they were not ...

Like that at the Giardini, also the core exhibition in the Corderie of the Arsenale opens with a large introductory installation, conceived by Venice Architecture Biennale director Alejandro Aravena, ...

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 ...

Winner of the Golden Lion for the best national participation at the 57th Venice Biennale of Art, the installation on view in the Pavilion of Germany has been created by artist Anne Imhof (b, 1978) ...

The Ospedale degli Innocenti (Hospital of the Innocents) is a former orphanage whose nucleus was built between 1419 and 1427 after a design by Filippo Brunelleschi. Brunelleschi’s building comprises ...

A Helsinki sta succedendo un fatto a dir poco strano, nello stesso luogo, con le stesse forme e intenti, a distanza di tempo si palesano le vestigia di un edificio museale mai nato ...

The presence of China at the EXPO 2015 Milan is one of the most interesting. The theme of China’s participation in the EXPO: “Land of Hope” is expressed in a pavilion where urban space and landscape ...

Reporting from the front, the core exhibition of the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale curated by Alejandro Aravena, Director of this year’s edition, is divided into two parts, respectively located at ...