"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

BIM days 2026

On 21 and 22 May, I will be in Bolzano with IDM Südtirol-Alto Adige as part of their BIMdays, first with a speech entitled “Beyond the project: the BIM that does not die on site” (I open the dances at 9.15 on Thursday) and then with a workshop on data flow and value chain, from the brief to the delivery of the project. There may be LEGO bricks.

The full program is here.

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

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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

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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

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