
Stone: Origins and Future in Architecture
On June 12 and 13, 2025, IUAV University of Venice will host "Stone is…," an international forum entirely dedicated to natural stone. Organized by PNA, this event aims to thoroughly explore the material's enduring value and sustainability, featuring insights from internationally renowned speakers.
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The spread of humans on Earth recalls the invasion of a powerful bacterium that has proliferated on the planet’s crust. Just as bacteria contaminate and are equally contaminated, humans are subjected to a continual transfer of information, knowledge, hypotheses and convictions. This is particularly evident in the creative professions and especially in architecture, where ideas originate, mature and perish in a constant flurry of hybridisations.










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Among the published projects: British studio Caruso St John Architects has adopted a contemporary style to reinterpret the essence of the Swiss chalet’s traditional iconography; a combined shop and gallery, Issey Miyake’s new space is a hybrid that blends old and new, modern demands and the tradition of machiya; A institution devoted to contemporary Russian art has commissioned the Renzo Piano Building Workshop to convert a two-hectare urban site in Moscow into a cultural centre; the Hill of Hermes, a wing-shaped garden by Attilio Stocchi, is a project with mythological and astronomical allusions that restores to Milan the green spaces of the renewed Palazzo Citterio, the last phase of the Grande Brera project.
Among the many colums: “Institution” analyses if an art institution can suggest alternatives to both gentrification and a country’s focus on financial assets; “Meteorology” focuses on light, which, once abstract and inorganic, has gained biological and medical implications, prompting a rethink of its design by architects and urban planners. This month’s Rassegna is about Cladding Materials.
Image on top: illustration by The Blue Chemist

How many forms can an idea take? Fantin has the answer
One material, metal; thirty-five colors; and endless possible configurations for modern, versatile, and functional furniture: design according to Fantin.
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