Come sono cambiate l’architettura e l’urbanistica dopo l’11 settembre.
Not so long ago, architects were obsessed with the notion that globalism, the Internet and sophisticated new building technologies were opening the way for a more fluid, transparent landscape in which walls would simply begin to melt away.
(…Now…) Like their 13th- to 15th-century counterparts, contemporary architects are being enlisted to create not only major civic landmarks but lines of civic defense, with aesthetically pleasing features like elegantly sculpted barriers around public plazas or decorative cladding for bulky protective concrete walls. This vision may seem closer in spirit to da Vinci’s drawings of angular fortifications or Michelangelo’s designs for organically shaped bastions than to a post-cold-war-era of high-tech surveillance.
E’ passato un anno dall’avvio della campagna (Red) di Bono. Gap, Motorola, American Express, Apple e altri si sono messi a vendere cose con il marchio rosso per raccogliere fondi contro Aids e altre malattie in Africa. Eppure questa campagna, nonostante la sovraesposizione e l’utilizzo di testimonial strafamosi, ha reso pochissimo: 