On Saturday April 25, at the Palazzina Reale of Santa Maria Novella railway station in Florence, Marco Brizzi curated a forum titled "Towards a Center for Architecture", a conversation with Andrea Aleardi, Fabrizio Arrigoni, Vaia Balekis, Valerio Barberis, Pino Brugellis, Fabio Cavallucci, Leonardo Chiesi, Michele Dantini, Paolo Pinarelli, Angelika Stepken, Gianpiero Venturini.

How can we describe a city in transformation today? How can we describe architecture by highlighting, in the eyes of citizens and architects, the deep reasons for a project to exist and its needs, in a world so rapidly changing? How can these necessities deal with the historical city, in Florence especially, in order to accommodate emerging needs and visions?

On Wednesday April 15 Marco Brizzi, Image director, will be at the Pecci Center for Contemporary Arts in Prato, Italy for a conversation with Philippe Rahm, part of the event series titled "CAMBIAMENTI / CHANGES", aimed at exploring the social, political and economic revolutions the world is facing today, small or big as they may be.

How much does climate influence design and the architectural language? Has climate change altered our habits? Is it affecting architecture and redesigning our dwellings? What role do new technologies play in redefining space on the basis of primary biological needs? And, following the principles of meteorological architecture, we should probably ask ourselves "What's the architecture for tomorrow?" Philippe Rahm will offer his original outlook on architecture and on the impact that climate change has on the transformation of our cities.

On Tuesday February 17, Marco Brizzi, Image director, will be at the Pecci Center for Contemporary Arts in Prato, Italy for a conversation with Yung Ho Chang, part of the event series titled "CAMBIAMENTI / CHANGES", aimed at exploring the social, political and economic revolutions the world is facing today, small or big as they may be.

Yung Ho Chang, founder of China's first private architecture firm (FCJZ Atelier Feichang Jianzhu in Beijing) and former Head of the Department of Architecture at MIT, will talk about the delicate balance that exists between tradition and innovation in contemporary architecture. His lecture is titles "The Lost City. The Architect Between Tradition and Innovation".

BLANKPAGE Architects recently completed an elegant beach house, perched along the ruggedly picturesque coastline in Lebanon, that offers exceptional views of the Mediterranean Sea. A pleasant seaside haven for a family of four that monopolizes on the beautifully warm Lebanese weather, inviting light in while maintaining privacy and security. In a city like Beirut, where urban chaos and changes are substantial, and where designers are constantly searching for a definition of a cultural identity, the architects at BLANKPAGE have been able to distill a language of their own, one that is capable to learn many lessons from history and to reinvent itself according to time, context and given conditions.

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