Stefano Boeri

Saskia Sassen

Sanford Kwinter

Bart Lootsma

Yorgos Simeoforidis

Nadia Tazi

Daniela Fabricius

Mckenzie Wark

Francois Chaslin

Jean Attali

Harvard Project on the City

Muliplicity

Moulier Boutang

Reinhold Grether

Celine Rozenblat

Mutations

Rem Koolhaas

Hans Ulrich Obrist

multiplicity Milano

Francine Fort

L'anticittà

Antonio Negri

Michael Hardt

Akeel Bilgrami

Robert Misik

Upendra Baxi

Iain Chambers

Isolde Charim

Carlos Basualdo

Homi Bhabha

Marta Calsina

Gerald Eibegger

Elsa LUpez

Rudolf Scholten

Zhiyuan Cui

Documenta 11_Platform1

Democracy Unrealized

Stefano Mirti

Lucia Tozzi

la mobilitazione dell'intelligenza collettiva ; 48 progetti per Torino [; World Design Capital, Torino 2008]

Geodesign

Green Obsession traces the long path that architect Stefano Boeri and his studio - Stefano Boeri Architetti - have followed in the last fifteen years of practice, aiming at the redefinition of the relationship between city and nature. The book follows a discursive thread, alternating dialogues and scientific essays by some of the main protagonists who have contributed to widening the perspective on this subject, helping to raise awareness while protecting the world and its biodiversity. Cities have contributed for centuries to the promotion of some of humanity's greatest ideas, we must now urgently include them as among the principal players in the environmental debate and at the forefront of any policy tackling and countering - possibly reversing - climate change. Nevertheless, even today one of the most significant technologies capable of absorbing CO2 and restoring our environment is photosynthesis. Planting trees, in addition to protecting existing natural areas and biodiversity, together with de-carbonization, renewable energies, digitalization, smart mobility and the circular economy could be the set of strategies necessary to tackle climate change. Today the effects of the Anthropocene age are ever more visible, changing our environment and affecting every species that lives within it. Green Obsession offers a path to be taken, a hard but still necessary paradigm shift - even for architecture and urbanism - that aims to give a voice to this much needed ecological transition. This book aims to unveil the processes and the complexity involved in the search for a new kind of urbanism, while raising questions and opening old wounds related to the relationship between the human species and Nature and finally putting these fragments together to create a portrait of our era. We need to conceive cities as new green catalysts. Now more than ever, it is essential to act together as separate individuals and professionals, joining the cause as members of the global community with a shared environmental strategy. We all have to open the era of a new alliance between Nature and City. With Contributions from Emanuele Coccia, Jane Goodall, Paul Hawken, Cecil Konijnendijk, David Miller, Harini Nagendra, Giuseppe Sala and Giorgio Vacchiano.

Trees Towards Cities, Humans Towards Forests

Green Obsession

Gabriele Basilico

The research represented in this book, conducted in 1996 by Gabriele Basilico (photographs) and Stefano Boeri (text), studies the haphazard, significant changes that have taken place over the last twenty years in the Italian landscape. It is not so much the large buildings, the new districts or new infrastructures that have changed the face of the land. It is rather the multitude of solitary, agglomerated buildings, such as the single-family homes, storehouses, shopping centers, office buildings, sheds, and workshops. They are modest constructions, often incongruously clustered one next to the other, scattered incoherently across the landscape, and they give expression to small fragments of our society and economy: families, small businesses, distributors, stores, clubs, depots.

Cross Sections of a Country

Italy

Stefano Boeri

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