Last Thursday, July 2nd 2026, I was invited to give a speech at the Order of Architects in Como, as the kick-off of a new initiative around technology and innovation. It was my pleasure to talk to a numerous group of on-line practicioners and a few courageous in-person attendants braving the heat: we talked about creativity, what it means to be an architect, and how to pick the tools that act as amplifiers to one own’s strengths as a practicioner.
Bibliographic references include:
- Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (2016);
- Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (2025);
- Byung-Chul Han, Saving Beauty (2015);
- Byng-Chul Han, In the Swarm: Digital Prospects (2013);
- Grant Wiggins & Jay McTighe, Understanding By Design (1998);
- Rudolf Arnheim, The Dynamics of Architectural Form (1977);
- Margaret Boden, AI: Its Nature and Future (2016);
- Chuck Eastman et al., BIM Handbook: A Guide to Building Information Modeling for Owners, Managers, Designers, Engineers and Contractors (2008);
- Edoardo Fregonese PhD, Una filosofia del progetto: Indagine sull’architettura in pratica e sulla produzione di effetti materiali (PhD Thesis, Doctoral Program in Architecture. History and Project, 2020);
- Asterios Agkathidis, Generative Design: Form-finding Techniques in Architecture (2016);
- Gilbert Simondon, On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (1958);
- Matteo Pasquinelli, The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence (2023);
- Edgar Morin, Introduction to the complex thought (1990).
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