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

Byung-Chul Han’s “Saving Beauty”

Saving Beauty (La Salvezza del Bello in Italian) is a short philosophical book (original German title: Schönheit retten) by cultural theorist Byung‑Chul Han, and it focuses on a critique of contemporary, consumerist notions of beauty, delving of course with the impact of digital technologies on

July 18, 2026 9:00 am

architecture, engineering and construction

The Saturday Nobody Asked For

Introduction: the question from LinkedIn A friend of mine posted recently about an engineer on their team who had, without being asked, put in an enormous amount of work over a weekend. The post asked a good question: once you’ve seen someone operate at that

July 17, 2026 9:00 am

architecture, engineering and construction

The Digital Ghosts

In Letters to Milena, Franz Kafka tries to name a specific distortion he believes is introduced by mediated communication, such as letters, then (already, in 1922) telecoms. Kafka writes this after a long, anguished correspondence in which he repeatedly doubts what writing letters is doing to him and

July 15, 2026 9:00 am