A blog for an architect is clearly evident from the stasis of these pages. As I have written many times* * * *, a blog for an architect is an extension of the drafting table, a place to jot down ideas, reflect on those of others, and initiate dialogues with other architects, writers, photographers, artists, and commentators. Being a blog without an editorial team, the frequency of articles/posts depends on the author's available time, both physical and mental.
Wilfing Architettura was also created with the intent to explore the change in architectural writing from paper to digital. I have questioned the protagonists of this period not to 'taxonomize' or 'almanac,' nor to 'prove a thesis' on a process, but to layer history by telling it as it happened. The silence of Wilfing Architettura in recent years was caused by the physical move from Leonforte, a small town in the province of Enna, to an almost metropolitan city like Milan. Recreating an architectural studio and settling in was not simple, but now that I have 'a room of my own,' I can make my drafting table public again.
So, where were we?
After almost eight years, resuming these pages means reconnecting with another world, as the blog now seems like computer archaeology, at least in the way it was used in its most active years.
In the new world of disintermediated writing, numerous platforms have emerged that have transformed the web communications landscape:
These platforms have greatly expanded the possibilities for 'free voices' on the web. In line with the spirit of Wilfing Architettura, we will explore who among the new media is doing 'avant-garde' (as Emanuele Piccardo would say), without neglecting those who are using AI among the useful tools of their drafting table.
Regarding the theme of avant-garde and early 20th-century web writings, during the 'temporary suspension of the world' of the Covid period, Emanuele Piccardo recalled the years of the webzines and his attempt to offer an alternative to mainstream press, through a live Facebook broadcast*.
- the theme of the memory of web writings for the historian of the future, given the frailty of the life of platforms that are born and die and the graveyard of links that no longer lead anywhere. Since if a paper magazine, even in a single copy, can be consulted forever, a webzine, if for some reason the platform no longer exists or the subscription is not paid, loses all its contents and its memory forever.
- the absence of political debate on architecture, where one passively witnesses top-down political decisions that compromise the very essence of architecture:
- direct awarding of public contracts for amounts under €150,000, in practice, gives discretion to the politician to award the project on certain segments of our area without going through idea competitions, perpetuating the usual Italian habit of favoring political friends;
- although attempts have been made to simplify the process of competitions, these are difficult to encourage as they should be. We believe that, with 7,896 municipalities in Italy, there should be at least 15,000 active competitions every semester, but this does not happen;
- entrusting a theme like the energy requalification of our building heritage to the incentive of bonuses and not to the project idea of an entire nation;
- Renzo Piano's G124 suburbs mending remains an authorial project and not a national political action;
- the extraordinary actions of the PNNR often lack a real project idea and are always based on the 'infrastructure' theme rather than a generic approach to the system of countries and cities;
- the umpteenth announcement regarding the construction of the bridge over the Strait, based on an engineering work conceived 40 years ago by the now-deceased English engineer William Brown (September 16, 1928 – London, March 16, 2005), could become a symbol of the Mediterranean and not just of Italy, where architectural design is evaded;
- tenders are structured so that architectural design can also be entrusted to non-architects, as highlighted by a recent post by Diego Terna on his Facebook page, "Who designs the public space of Milan? Engineers*", through a comment I emphasized that engineers are more suited for this type of requests, while architects, trained from university to be 'stars', tend to scatter in numerous studios of individual architects unable to create a cohesive system; Who designs the public space of Milan? ENGINEERS.
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