On Artribune, a website dedicated to contemporary art and culture, Ludovico Pratesi interviews Stefano Boeri about the references underlying the philosophy behind the work of Stefano Boeri Architetti, with a look at the challenges that architecture is likely to face in the future.
With references to the XXIII Triennale Unknown Unknows, to the art of Fluxus and to the Villa Méditerranée, Boeri Studio’s project for the city of Marseilles, “open towards the sea with a one-metre cantilevered living space, which houses the sea inside”, the article ranges over the various experiences that have contributed to Stefano Boeri’s work, to his “obsession”: “it can be a form, or a person, or simply a way of resting on the ground, of responding to gravity or the sun, of sheltering from the wind or indulging it, of protecting oneself or exposing oneself to the currents of the world. Obsession, if cultivated, is the strength of a life’.
To read the full article: https://www.artribune.com/progettazione/architettura/2023/01/futuro-antico-intervista-stefano-boeri/