[First Published on April 2018, see on LinkedIn>>] One of my preferred quote is by George Bernard Shaw: “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place“. I don’t know whether the Author developed such conviction attending a design coordination meeting or in a different circumstance. However, that quote well describe…

[First published on July 2019, see on LinkedIn>>] Once upon a time the architect. This is the substance of Rab Bennetts’ article on AJ last year about novation. I can’t agree more on considering delivery as an essential part of design and the habit of splitting the process in two parts (design and delivery, where the first goes…

[First Published on November 2017, see on LinkedIn>>] I was told by a high-level professional manager working world-wide that, generally speaking, UK management is considered one of the worst in the world. I can just testify about the construction industry since I have around 20 years of experience in the field. Let’s start by saying…

[First Published on March 2017, see on LinkedIn>>] Since the Government decided to implement BIM in public works, architects and construction companies started taking BIM more seriously in UK: cutting the cost of about 20% is not a negligible goal. Focusing on that target, big firms began bringing BIM, whatever the project – public or…

[First published on March 2018, See on LinkedIn>>] 01 Who does benefit from process efficiency? The introduction to the  Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) guidance note about “Managing the design delivery” recaps the essence of any enterprise: optimisation of resources (energy, time, money) to achieve the best result as possible (quality, profits). The article by David Light “BIM…

[first published on September 2018, >>https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/bim-unveiled-clients-guide-carlo-bughi/ ] The advantages of BIM are not so clear to many professionals in the field so, no wonder if clients (private and developers) can’t understand how BIM is beneficial for their investment in the building industry. It is probably a legacy from the time I was teaching at the…

If I say “S 0560-G30Y”, the majority of you would think I come from Mars. Those of you that are thinking about a green apple probably are colour experts and are confident with the Natural Colour System (NCS). Actually, that odd formula is a perfect ID for a certain kind of green (G) with a pinch (30)…

Recently, preparing for an interview, I was thinking about my experience in landscape architecture. Landscape architecture’s definition admits multiple meanings, floating between designing the landscape and designing into the landscape. I come from a country, Italy, where it’s very hard not to face the landscape approaching a project: if it is not the natural landscape, it’s the historical one…

1. Colour and inclusivity | Colour design in architecture is too often neglected. This contribute is not focused on investigating the reasons of this situation, but is evident that colour is still considered as a factor playing in the realm of aesthetic choices. In 1996 Frank H. Mahnke shown why such an approach is a mistake…

  The coming of BIM (Building Information Modelling) was expected like a mystical event. It’s since 1999 that BIM is discussed in the US. As revealed in a number of studies and research performed by many universities, even Italian ones, in Italy, as well as in Europe, designers, builders, manufacturers and customers are patiently waiting…

Attending a talk given by Richard Sennett last Monday evening, I was thinking about possible recipes to obtain a contemporary Agora. Definitely, is not a matter for planning or design, I think. Sennett proposes a distinction between two kind of public spaces: the Agora is a place where many things happen synchronically and it’s opposed to that public…

Recently, a discussion about architects love of white  has started in a LinkedIn group I follow. Karen Haller proposed that issue. She’s colour consultant working also with architects, so she asks why architects love so much white, in interior design especially. Igor Asselbergs, participating from Netherlands, proposes an interesting historical reconstruction. Renaissance, he suggest, was…

Colour is a part of design. Representation is not the final goal, but it’s a tool. Representation, design and colour are strongly linked. As for our experience, managing colour in all its representational opportunities, requires a multidisciplinary approach and therefore we invite students to adopt such an attitude. To achieve this goal, the Department of…

The following are few considerations arisen during the last Asia Design Forum meeting, at the Architectural Association. The topic was Design and Geography. Architecture and geography should be strictly connected to space, but speakers talked mostly about time. Christopher Lee mentioned Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh project as a perfect matching between traditional Indian features, rooted in…

Course of Representation Techniques. Students’ works: designed physical models. Year 2011. The goals of the ‘physical modelling’ seminar, described by Francesco Viroli in his article, can be framed within the wider scope of Architecture Technical Representation 2’s course. In my opinion, representing architecture doesn’t only mean to reproduce shapes and volumes in a different scale ,as…

Course of Representation Techniques. Students’ works: a digital magazine of architecture. Year 2013. The course’s aim was to introduce the students to the basic concept in designing a digital journal. They have made BIM models of existing building, realising rendering,sketches, and critical comments and than they have collected works in a Journal, using a shared layout.

Course of Representation Techniques. Students’ works: a printed journal of architecture. Year 2013. The course’s aim was to introduce the students to the basic concept in designing a printed magazine. They have made BIM models of existing building, realising rendering, sketches, and critical comments and than they have collected works in a magazine, using a…

Course of Representation Techniques: Student’s work, year 2012.

Some example of my students’ work at the Department of Architecture, University of Ferrara. Training consists in to propose a several of version of the same space making quickly a render (two hours max). Results achieved just after one lesson supported by video tutorials.

Learning colour at the Department of Architecture, University of Ferrara. Workshop managed with Gianni Cagnazzo.  

Print and screen colour management. Workshop in collaboration with EPSON Italia, at Restauro 2013. With Gaetano Biraghi e Nicola Simonato

Workshop about colour, with Gianni Cagnazzo, University of Ferrara, Year 2011 Imagine Who, What, How, When and Where. Then, design colour! 110 student’s workshop at Ferrara, Depart,ment of Architecture.

Speaker and Trainer at Colour Lab: Materia Colore Luce | Material Colour Light – Wellness spaces. Conference and workshop

“Il progetto del colore, vademecum operativo per la gestione cromatica delle superfici architettoniche”, edited by Marcello Balzani, Maggioli, 2011 Rappresentare il colore [Representing the Colour. About colour simulation in architectonical rendering] La simulazione del colore. I fattori ed i parametri nella simulazione virtuale [Colour simulation. Factors and parameters in the virtual simulation] Il progetto degli…

[Paesaggio Urbano |Urban Design, #5-6.2012, Maggioli Editore ] The coming of BIM (Building Information Modelling) was expected like a mystical event. It’s since 1999 that BIM is discussed in the US. As revealed in a number of studies and research performed by many universities, even Italian ones, in Italy, as well as in Europe, designers,…