9th National Conference – buildingSMART Italia

April 15, 2026

April 16th marks my first collaboration with buildingSMART Italia. We’ve been working in the same sector for ages, and yet we never crossed paths.

I’m not fond of everyone that’s been invited to speak but I am proud of my co-host, the brilliant engineer Silvia Gioja, and my guest will be a local entrepreneur who’ll speak about the difficulties of finding professionals that are as skilled as the market requires, and of the challenges of integrating infrastructural know-how and the technical capabilities needed for information modelling, everything in a speech titled BIMposter? which really makes me laugh.

I’ll also have the pleasure of bestowing an excellence award to some former colleagues, which is always nice. It’s happening in Rome.

architecture, engineering and construction

The Answer’s in Your Model (and yet, it might be wrong)

A few weeks ago, in one of those happy convergences of life, I was reading an Italian essay on Italo Calvino and artificial intelligence (I wrote about it here), and there’s a very interesting set of passages that have to do with our contemporary obsession

September 16, 2026 9:00 am

movies and tv

The End of Oak Street

By the life of me, I don’t understand how’s possible that this movie was ever cleared for production. The concept is simple, and shamefully Stephen King-esque: a portion of a small suburban town gets teleported into a not particularly well-defined “age of dinosaurs,” and the

September 14, 2026 9:00 am

books and literature

Susanna Clarke’s The Ladies of Grace Adieau

I had forgotten how much I was bored by Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, but I trust I’ll like other stuff by the same author and, before tackling Piranesi, I decided to finally approach this one. Not remembering these are spin-off stories from Jonathan

September 13, 2026 9:00 am