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Contemporaryartist.eu : Marco Casagrande

Finland Architecture News - Aug 17, 2009 - 14:06   6056 views

Casagrande is continuing the research line of the Bergen School of Architecture`s theory open formand focusing in the recent research on thethird generation city and urban acupuncture, in which post industrial cities are treated as energy organism in order to find design solutions for environmentally sustainable urban development and landscape urbanism. In urban design theories links with architect Ti-Nan Chi `s micro urbanism, arhitect Vilen Künnapu`s energy center architecture and Helsinki University of Technology`s local knowledge. According to Casagrande the best human living condition is an organic and openly transforming combination of a simultaneous ruin and a construction site. City must be a compost.    
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