Sunday Ponti Church

It was summer of 1979, we were driving in my dad's khaki green Mercedes in southern Italy to catch the boat back to Greece after a trans-europe not so express, the car stereo was probably playing "I will Survive" or "No More Tears" and we thought everybody was a mafioso.

Suddenly I saw this building off the autostrada, and it was just the most exciting thing I had seen. My parents said : "It looks like a church", and I thought "It looks fabulous".Later in life I realized that this was Gio Ponti's Cathedral in Taranto, and today browsing through some books I found it again.

Next to it in the book (a vintage A+U) was another great church by Ponti, slightly less published, the San Franscesco in Milan.

I've always been obsessed by Ponti's polygon window phase, like in the De Bijenkorf which I blogged ages ago

some of the pics from this Ponti link

Recently in some magazines (and books)

Obviously working too much is bad for your blog, today I'm sick and had to skip university so this is my pathetic attempt to keep posting, though I promise I will resume soon
Spanish arch mag arq./a had a nice article though as usual I cant read it
The DAMDI publishing came out with this book on furniture and all things "body"

they featured Soft Ruin which hasn't been published much, if at all
PlayGround, a collaboration with Eleni Kostika, an installation that survived only 1 night before being torn to pieces... this was supposed to be a surveilled public sculpture project etc etc
and a pretty extensive publication of the Blue Wave project and all it's extensions



check out Bodyscape for nice projects by Juergen Mayer H, Julien De Smedt and many moreoh and here's a couple of months of my Velvet column,

Printing Buildings

Models being printed with ZCorps' great zPrinter450, courtesy the nice people at PV Engineering and 3dprinters.gr/

Last Night in Athens

It was the second round of ReMap KM openings. I got there late just in time for Amie Dickes' weird and wonderful performance at lovely Javier Perez
which ended in tears and destruction and smiles



on the second floor of Javier you can see sexy Marcus Knupp paintings
in the back an outdoor AVAF mural
later on we went to Amateur Polish disco with Agustin Perez Rubio and Tolo (with great Konstantin Grcic studying his Polish beer in the background)
"How do I look" Javier with Angelo
but then everybpdy was too busy having fun to take photos

Random London

was in London this weekend, it was grey and sunny and funny and boring
all at the same time, as usual.

We went to see the "Seduced" show at the great Barbican center, which,
apart from the Mapplethorpe pics, was not so great

the columns outside were somehow sexier

nice oversized lounge somewhere in the huge barbican

then over at Frieze art fair they had a sculpture part with a great Marc Bijl piece
courtesy of lovely Breeder
and some nice Jose Pedro Croft (looks like do-it-yourself Dan Graham but cooler)

fabulous Tobias Rehberger furniture
(I hate the word fabulous but how else to describe?)



great John Armleder wallpaper
funny Jennifer Bronstein at the totally anarchic Gavin Brown Enterprise where you could buy original artworks for 10 pounds and eat Gavin Brownies (the other galleries were a little freaked out)

great great great piece but I dont remember the name of the artist
Angelo looking Red and Bluenice staircase at the ICAbye bye funny "airplane in the sky" lounge-pillow

White Night Lecture

Here's the short lecture I gave, over and over, during the Nuit Blanche in Paris (even though I was in bed in Athens)