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Three themes.
A space to think.
Articles, videos and lectures: a space for deeper reflection, open to sources, images and discussion.
Editorial · Manifesto
The thread connecting everything
The perspective from which this website views Vitruvius, Gaudí and artificial intelligence as parts of the same story.
Thematic notebook
Vitruvius
De architectura, the Basilica of Fano and the long journey connecting sources, the city, models and excavation.
Vitruvius and water
Water, light, the body and shared life: Vitruvius’s thought offers a cultural perspective on the future of the Carignano baths.
Vitruvius and circular wisdom
From founding a city to artificial intelligence: Vitruvius’s circular wisdom invites us to bring knowledge, experience and responsibility into dialogue.
The sense of measure: my lecture on Vitruvius at Passaggi
The full recording of my keynote lecture at Passaggi Festival: a journey from Vitruvius to the present through architecture, cities and civilisation.
The Basilica of Fano: thirty years of research, a discovery that changes history
From the first three-dimensional model to the 2026 excavations: the journey that returned the Basilica described by Vitruvius to the centre of international debate.
An international ideas competition for the centre of the world
Before deciding what to build or demolish, Fano needs the best possible visions for the Basilica area.
How was an encyclopaedia written in 30 BC?
Papyrus scrolls, ink, tablets and memory: the material undertaking behind Vitruvius’ ten books.
Thematic notebook
Gaudí
Nature, materials, structure and authenticity: reading the work beyond its image and its myth.
TWO COLUMNS, TWO WORLDS: WHERE MY GAUDÍ BEGINS
From Colònia Güell to the Sagrada Família building site: the comparison that has guided my research into material, structure and nature since 1989.
THE WASHERWOMAN OF PARK GÜELL: FROM GAUDÍ TO VITRUVIUS, FROM STONE TO THE DIGNITY OF LABOUR
A woman carrying laundry on her head becomes a column. Her gesture opens a path between Barcelona’s washerwomen, Vitruvius’s caryatids and my reading of Gaudí.
GAUDÍ AND THE HUMAN PLACE IN NATURE
Amid industrial transformation, Gaudí seeks an architecture that can reconnect people with material, light and the living world. A question I still feel is our own.
When stone becomes nature
For Gaudí, nature is not an image to imitate: it is a law that becomes structure, materials and space.
Thematic notebook
AI & Heritage
Opinions and articles on artificial intelligence, responsibility, heritage, education and the future.
Living with artificial intelligence: culture, knowledge and responsibility
From Vitruvius and Leonardo to Maindh_Lab: trust, verification and human responsibility in the age of artificial intelligence.
HUMANITY AT THE CENTRE, BUT NOT ALONE
Artificial intelligence, faith and the possibility of a new humanism. An open reflection on the dialogue between humans and machines.
From digital twins to embodied intelligence
Digital heritage ceases to be a passive copy when it can perceive, reason, act and learn through interaction.
Artificial intelligence does not remove responsibility
Speed, generation and automation are useful only when accompanied by sources, verification and human responsibility.