House on the Roof / De Amicis Architetti. Architects: De Amicis Architetti Location: Via Petrarca, Milan, Italy Project Area: 500 sqm Project Year: 2008-2010 Photographs: Stefano Gusmeroli, Eugenia Silvestri Instead of a plain and uncritical enforcement of the regulation in force, this project, a roof recovery for housing purposes, represents a real, direct and conscious occasion to realize a small urban architecture. The new building develops on the one hand the theme of the house on the roof, on the other hand the completion one. From a typological and formal point of view, the new volume keeps a relative autonomy in respect to the characteristics of the building below.
However the new architecture assumes, as starting point, the distinctive decorations and materials of the original construction period. In particular, the chromatic choice, the walls and roof covering define the research of a new type of continuity and familiarity with regard to the past, though keeping a strictly contemporary language. THE SECOND COMING — A MANIFESTO By David Gelernter. Stewart Brand, David Ditzel, John C. Dvorak, Freeman Dyson, George Dyson, Douglas Rushkoff, Rod Brooks, Lee Smolin, Jaron Lanier, David Farber, Danny Hillis, Vinod Kholsa, John McCarthy on "The Second Coming - A Manifesto" by David Gelernter Marc Hauser, Milford Wolpoff, V.S.
Ramachandran, and Nicholas Humphrey on V.S. Ramachandran's "Mirror Neurons and imitation learning as the driving force behind "the great leap forward" in human evolution" Responses to "The Second Coming - A Manifesto" by David Gelernter Stewart Brand: The sequence is clear. David Ditzel: Gelernter is ahead of us all in peering through the fog that we call the future of technology. John C. Feeman Dyson: I suspect that he has a one-sided view of computing.
George Dyson: Let us hope that Gelernter's prophecies continue to be fulfilled. Rod Brooks: David Gelernter is no doubt right on about the coming revolution, but as with all revolutions it is hard to predict the details of how it will play out. The sequence is clear. TREND HUNTER TV - You hunt the trends. We put them on TV. TED: Ideas worth spreading.