Architecture | Modernist
Milan | Pisacco Bistrot
An impressive recent addition to the mainstream drinking and dining scene in style capital Milan is Pisacco, gastro-bistrot in Via Solferino, on the edge of one of the coolest areas of the new Milanese movida in the northern reaches of Brera. Put ... More
Vietri sul Mare | Design Pottery
Vietri sul Mare is the easternmost pearl of the breathtaking Amalfi Coast, just west of Salerno. It's also the happiest possible hunting ground for anyone who's into ceramics. They've been throwing pots here since the 1600s. Industrial production still abounds, while the old part ... More
Turin | Comunicarch Tours
A cutting-edge studio specializing in architectural communication, Comunicarch now does contemporary architecture tours in and around Turin. They're intended for architecture professionals, students and enthusiasts, and come in English, French and German as well as Italian. Architects Cristiana Chiorino and Laura Milan, who founded Comunicarch ... More
Lecce | Baroque Weekend
The hidden courtyards and secret gardens of some of Lecce's most splendid historic houses are to open their hefty doors again this year for Cortili Aperti. On Sunday June 10, the singular Baroque style on display in Lecce can be seen from ... More
Rome | Open House
Coming soon, Open House Roma, in its very first edition and boasting an unstinting programme of architectural wonders open to the public for free guided visits, as well as architecture tours and related events, on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 May 2012. Open ... More
Rome | Architecture Walks
Elena Morgante is prodigiously qualified to offer guided architecture walks around the Eternal City, so some of us are very fortunate that that's precisely what she's doing these days. She's earned a couple of Italian university degrees in the history of ... More
Brenta Canal | Villa Spotting
For an agreeably different way of getting to Venice - or away from it when you've had enough - how about a cruise? We're not talking about one of those gargantuan liners that regularly dwarf the Palazzo Ducale and throw ... More
Venice | The Old Olivetti Shop
In 1956 the National Olivetti Prize for architecture was awarded to Carlo Scarpa. Adriano Olivetti promptly capped this with a commission to design an Olivetti showroom in the heart of Venice. And Scarpa, who by this time enjoyed international renown, was indicted ... More
Bologna | Toy Story
Some of Bologna's most charming shops are to be found in the bustling quarter around Via Oberdan, once part of a Jewish ghetto. Hoffmann is one such. The shop itself was designed by the great Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa, at the ... More
Bagheria | Monstrous Stuff
A little way off the beaten track to Palermo lies the town of Bagheria, with little to recommend it but for the superb and eccentric Villa Palagonia. A country house built for Don Ferdinando Gravina Crujllas, Prince of Palagonia, no ... More
Rome | Garbatella
For a surprising alternative to Romeing around the crowded city centre, head out to the Garbatella, a residential quarter built on the southern outskirts of the city in the 1920s and '30s. Part of a plan to link Rome to the sea at ... More
Turin | Feeling Nervi
Pier Luigi Nervi is one of the most highly acclaimed twentieth-century Italian architects. His extraordinary modernist buildings and plastic use of reinforced concrete made his work a landmark for XXC architecture in Italy and around the globe. So verstatile was he, ... More
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