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.

books and literature

Isaac Asimov’s Living Space and Other Stories

By the life of me, I will never understand how these are collected.The book contains some delightful short stories plus a slightly longer one (Profession), mostly all of them revolving around the rise of Multivac, the first supercomputer built by humanity which in turn takes

August 2, 2026 9:00 am

Summertime

Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Architect

Same poet, different book. Rilke, the Bohemian poet and playwright, already made an appearance in the original list, so I’m well aware that bringing him back on day two of a sequel about not repeating myself is a strange way to start. But the Duino

August 2, 2026 6:00 am

books and literature

The Thursday Murder Club

I wanted to read this series after seeing the delightful movie on Netflix, which would have been worth it if only for the stellar cast. After I started, I couldn’t possibly stop. I think I read the whole thing in a month. Here’s what I

August 1, 2026 9:00 am