Massimiliano Fuksas.My real obsession is landscapes, like Ayers Rock Ayers Rock Rock outcrop, southwestern Northern Territory, Australia. Called Uluru by the Australian Aborigines and located in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, it is 1,100 ft (335 m) high and may be the world's largest monolith. , the red mountain in Australia, the atolls in Polynesia, enormous dunes that form and dissolve A Web site design technique borrowed from the film and video industry in which the transition between two Web pages is represented visually by one page fading into another. Also known as a "soft cut," the result is achieved in the HTML coding of the images to gradual pre-determined in the deserts, Icebergs. I have always been fascinated by the beauty of the absence of form, the imperfection im·per·fec·tion n. 1. The quality or condition of being imperfect. 2. Something imperfect; a defect or flaw. See Synonyms at blemish. imperfection Noun 1. of beauty. I have always asked myself how it is possible to create a form of architecture with no shape and with no geometrical or complex dimensions. I believe that artists, even the worst ones, are better than architects, because artists always start from a vision; architects never speak about it, they always speak about a project. I became an architect because my mother was afraid I would become an artist and, to her way of thinking, artists were people who never had any money. My dream is that everyone can have ideas, passions and feelings. What is the point in struggling to earn more and more, to gain more power? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Trade fair as landscape The design of the New Milan Trade Fair chooses to make the longitudinal lon·gi·tu·di·nal adj. Running in the direction of the long axis of the body or any of its parts. connection axis its main generator; a spine which gives structure to the entire complex. This space, the 'central axis', is the place of activities, the centre of information, and the place of crossing. These concepts are developed through the positioning of a series of buildings alongside the main axis, with connections at ground level, and at footbridge level, 6.5m above. The buildings host various functions: restaurants, meeting rooms, office spaces, and reception areas that connect with the exhibition halls. The pathway stretches between two areas, between the east and west entrances that provide the main accesses to the Trade Fair. The buildings along the central axis are suspended above diversely treated landscaped areas: water, green areas and concrete, with the flanking flanking method of restraint in calves. The animal is thrown by the operator reaching across the animal's back, grasping the loose flank and lifting it off its feet. stainless-steel and glass facades of the exhibition halls, become the scenography sce·nog·ra·phy n. The art of representing objects in perspective, especially as applied in the design and painting of theatrical scenery. sce·nog . Above the whole of this space extends the vast roof-an undulating lightweight structure like a veil; a veil, with a surface area exceeding 46 000sqm, and over 1300m in length. MASSIMILIANO FUKSAS Massimiliano Fuksas is an Italian architect, born in Rome in 1944. He received his degree in Architecture from the La Sapienza University in 1969 in Rome, where he opened his first office. Subsequent offices were opened in Paris (1989) and Vienna (1993). , MASSIMILIANO FUKSAS ARCHITETTO [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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