So, still packing, but I have a really cool article for anyone interested about what would happen if (Italian, no less) children were creating cities. This makes me think of Pooh Bear because in architecture school I had an ass of a prof who took notice of me reading The Te of Piglet & thought it would be fun to analyse our class into Pooh characters. He was so fricken pompous. I know, "Isn't that a prerequisite for becoming an architect?" No, I actually know many that are fairly relatable, but onto the story.
"Once upon a time, there was a construction cooperative in the small north Italian town of Correggio, not far from the larger cities of Modena and Parma. It specialised in building houses. One day, back in 1990, its members made a decision that would radically change the way they worked.
Coriandoline: winner of the Peggy Guggenheim Prize for the most innovative project in 2001 and the World Habitat Awards in 2002
Taking on the new name, Andria - inspired by an ideal city in Italo Calvino's novel, Invisible Cities - they transformed it from a cooperative for abitazioni (habitations) into a cooperative for abitanti (inhabitants). One of Andria's founding architects, Luciano Pantaleoni, says this was something of a revolution, "We had to learn to listen to the service-users, in other words, families".
Taking their logic one step further, Andria decided that, since families comprise both adults and children, to be a true cooperative for inhabitants, they would have to listen to children as well as adults. And that's how the idea to build Coriandoline was born."
If I've peaked your interest enough to read the story, it is here:
Oh, & the ass-prof? Yeah, he completely pegged me as Rabbit.
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