by Sergio Los Originally published June 15, 2019 on Biourbanistica Many Italians are desperate. They leave Italy, thinking that it sucks. They do not want to have children in this country. Although they are born here, they come to hate it. This contributes to a difficult demographic crisis, abandoning it to a rather worrying extent (quantity […] read more
by Sergio Los Lecture from the first international conference of the National Institute of Bioarchitecture (Istituto Nazionale di Bioarchitettura – INBAR) and the University of Parma, “Architecture as Common Good: Recovering Urban Quality and Well-being” in Parma, Italy, May 3–4, 2018. Originally published in the Journal of Biourbanism Volume VII, 2/2018 1. SYMBOLIC COMMUNICATION IS […] read more
by Stefano Serafini Originally published November 15, 2017 in the Journal of Biourbanism Volume V Issue 1&2/2016 One cannot reduce biourbanism to design techniques, a tool, or a style. Biourbanism aims at a deep understanding of culture and nature as a whole, which allows for designing accordingly. It is about the human intentionality of […] read more
Editor’s Note: The Silence of Design by Stefano Serafini Editor in Chief, International Society of Biourbanism, Italy I. Marx and Engels were among the first to denounce the ugliness of the modern city. The notes by Engels on London as an expanded capitalistic plant that breaks human relations speak for the urban absence of beauty […] read more