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The opinions and views contained Marianna Ascolese Claudia Tamburro Cover Image in this publication are not necessarily those of the 74 Dragon Mountain Pavilion. The construction of an artificial landscape - Marianna Ascolese Federico Deo India Ingrid Paoletti Courtesy of Jonathan Leijonhufvud publishers. Readers are advised to seek specialist [email protected] Japan Matteo Belfiore Architectural Photography advice before acting on information contained in this Il Padiglione della Montagna del Drago. La costruzione di un paesaggio artificiale publication, which is provided for general use and Kuwait Sikander Khan may not be appropriate for the reader’s particular [architecture & plan] Pompeii towards the future among care, conservation and discoveries. An interview with Massimo Osanna - Andrea Pane Editorial Board Morocco Laurence Bassières All the articles in this issue have been peer circumstances. The ownership of trademarks is ap 82 Paola Ascione New Zealand Alberto Calderoni reviewed by the Scientific Committee acknowledged. No part of this publication or any part Pompei verso il futuro tra cure, restauri e scoperte. Un’intervista con Massimo Osanna of the contents thereof may be reproduced, stored in Francesca Capano Palestine Cristina Bronzino and the Editorial Board retrieval system or transmitted in any form with - out the Maria Vittoria Capitanucci Portugal Teresa Ferreira permission of the publishers in writing. 90 Museum Proem: the new Antiquarium of Pompeii - Luana Toniolo, Federico Calabrese Anna Cornaro Spain Federico Calabrese Proemio museale: il nuovo Antiquarium di Pompei Paolo Giardiello Camilla Mileto Serkan Gunay Fernando Vegas [experiences] ex 100 Style. Interview with Brian Johnson and Wael Al-Masri - Cristiano Luchetti Achraf Ibrahim Turkey Serkan Gunay Stile. Intervista a Brian Johnson e Wael Al-Masri Massimo Imparato UK Pietro Belli Ferruccio Izzo Michele Pasca di Magliano [academia] a 120 Fortifying the past via Coalescence: past and future coming together - Nour Rouhana Laura Lieto USA Randall Mason Cristiano Luchetti Linda Nubani Coalescenza come fortificazione dell’antico: il passato incontra il futuro Giovanni Menna [materials & interiors] A retreat in balance between tradition and modernity: the Hishiya hotel in Fukuchiyama - Daria Verde Linda Nubani mi 128 Ivan Parati Un rifugio in equilibrio tra tradizione e modernità: l’Hishiya hotel di Fukuchiyama Gennaro Postiglione Titti Rinaldi [smart food] sf 136 Something has changed - Ferdinando Polverino De Laureto Saud Sharaf Qualcosa è cambiato [in memoriam] im 138 Enzo Mari and Lea Vergine, intellectuals without doubts - Maria Vittoria Capitanucci Enzo Mari e Lea Vergine, intellettuali senza remore 21 im [in memoriam] legs rather than her speech in one of her one of her fundamental writings in A beautiful choral exhibition Enzo Mari curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist – by Hans first conferences. terms of theme and impact on future Ulrich Olbrist with Francesca Giacomelli, scheduled in the spaces of the Milan Maria Vittoria Capitanucci Once again it will be her, in line with the generations, as well as Attraverso l’Arte. Triennale (until the 18th of April, 2021), well before the death of the well-known great wave of international feminism, Pratica politica. Pagare il ‘68 (Arcana, designer – pays homage to his 60 years of research. Among the incursions, in who will choose as a field of research 1976) e Arte programmata e cinetica addition to the reconstruction of the scenographic installation for the African Voodoo the most uncomfortable performing 1953-1963. L’ultima avanguardia exhibition at the Parisian Fondation Cartier, there are reinterpretations of his work art, to which she will give a substantial (Mazzotta publisher, 1983). by some contemporary artists – such as the talented Adrian Paci – and designers, Enzo Mari and Lea Vergine, introductory and critical contribution. She will then conclude with two intense with the introductory space of Nanda Vigo. Finally, a podcast of testimonies, curated Dall’Informale alla Body Art. Dieci voci reflections in La vita, forse l’arte (Archinto, by the English critic Alice Rawsthorn, completes this anthological exhibition that dell’Arte Contemporanea: 1960/1970 2014) and L’arte non è faccenda di travels along the double path of narration and rereading. intellectuals without doubts © photo courtesy of Dezeen (Forma Publishing Group, 1976) remains persone perbene (Rizzoli, 2016). Compasso d’Oro awards, the first in 1967 What really strikes about these two © photo courtesy of Danese Milano © photo courtesy of Fondazione la Triennale di Milano and the last in 2011, without ever ceasing intellectuals – distant and independent in to experiment since his debut as an the peculiarity of their fields and interests, artist in the 1950s with the magnificent as well as in the externalization and creations of Programmed Art. expression of their own research – is that She, on the other hand – the narrator there was a substantial fil rouge between of an artistic culture outside the chorus them, that is a common ideological – will be remembered for her acute and position and a shared avant-garde anticipatory contributions dedicated to attitude, critical and resistant towards the the female presence in art and, more predominant cultural line, even if outside generally, for her fascination for the the establishment. intense performance art (Il corpo come It is Mari himself who claims that «the linguaggio. Body art e storie simili, designer cannot fail to have his own Prearo publisher, 1974 and L’altra metà ideology of the world. If he does not have dell’avanguardia. 1910-1940, Mazzotta