E’ qui l’Oktoberfest?

May 18, 2006

Oggi sono arrivata bella tranquilla in studio (senza aver mangiato) e che ti trovo sul pianerottolo sotto di noi? Tredici casse di birra. Boh, mi dico, dovranno festeggiare qualcosa… avranno molto caldo… ci sarà stata un’offerta all’esselunga…
Non faccio nemmeno in tempo a farmi aprire la porta, che dall’appartamento in questione inizia un festoso e festante vociare, suoni di boccali che brindano, stompare (perdonate il neologismo) di pesanti piedi ed altre simili amenità. Mentre scrivo, stanno intonando raccapriccianti cori a più voci. Ma si può lavorare, in queste condizioni? Offrissero un giro di birra al palazzo, almeno…

architecture, engineering and construction

BIM and Facility Management, with a little help from LEGO and AI

There is a question we often forget to ask, and it became the centrepiece of a three-hour workshop I delivered last week at Politecnico di Milano as part of a BIM Management master’s programme. When an information model is delivered to the client,how do we

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books and literature

Osamu Dazai’s The Student and Other Stories

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books and literature

Carson McCuller’s The Ballad of the Sad Cafè

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