Michele Calzavara

Oct 29, 2024 | abitare.it | Giuseppe Santonocito |Leonardo Lella |Mario Piazza |Michele Calzavara

The new issue of Abitare is on newsstands from tomorrow 30 October.

Jun 25, 2024 | abitare.it | Sara Banti |Matteo Poli |Michele Calzavara |Paolo Lavazzari

The new issue of Abitare is on the newsstands from tomorrow Wednesday 26 June. Highlights include the monumental former grain store facing onto the port of Kristiansand, Norway, turned into a museum for modern and contemporary Nordic art by Mestres Wåge; the furnishings and interiors of Greek studio Objects of Common Interest, a celebration of dialogue; the renovation of the Hermitage Hotel on Lake Lucerne, a complex operation still underway by Swiss studio Herzog & de Meuron.

Apr 9, 2024 | abitare.it | Michele Calzavara

‘We used to spend entire mornings measuring the Piazza Leonardo da Vinci. […] Now it would happen that because the spring measurements were taking place with a certain laziness, and for a thousand other reasons which were not figured into the probabilities of inexactness, our triangulations often failed to close.

Apr 13, 2023 | abitare.it | Michele Calzavara

A Constructivist-influenced abstract sculptor. That’s how James Wines described himself before leaping over the bounds of art studios and galleries, and down from their pedestals, before exiting in short from the special places assigned to art in order to take it elsewhere. He was in good company – with Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Smithson, Vito Acconci, Michael Heizer, to mention just a few – in that neighbourhood of SoHo in New York where he opened his studio in 1960.