Abitare 541 SPECIAL EXPO MILAN

The new issue of Abitare will be on the newsstands from 16 January in a special version devoted to the Milan Expo: over 100 pages of exclusive content describing and analysing in depth the ideas, the designs and the construction sites of the biggest international event of 2015 through the voices of the people involved and the eyes of some exceptional narrators. The issue is completed with an ample section inspired by the ephemeral nature of the architecture of Universal Expositions and devoted to the finest prefabricated buildings of the moment.

Abitare 541 content

Notes from the Construction Site
by Gianni Biondillo, photo Daniele Mascolo
Guided tour of the site of Expo to capture the spirit of the event

The Exception to the Rule 
by Silvia Botti, illustration Roberto Ricci
From the theme to the geopolitics, the Ambrosian Rite in its Expo version

Microcosm in Ferment
by Aldo Bonomi, photo Luigi Filetici
Italian Pavilion represents the power of the country’s regions

The Force of an Idea
by Chiara Maranzana
The form of the Expo site is a product of the radical and innovative approach of the original plan

Special coverage
by Chiara Maranzana
For once a tensile structure provides environmental quality for an urban path

A Global Laboratory of Sustainable Ideas
by Luca Molinari
Not supposed to amaze. The structures of Expo interpret a concrete theme

Villages of Good Nutrition
by Sara Banti
Expo 2015 Milan’s inventive display system consists of clusters, the product of the ideas of 129 students 

The Great Green Laboratory
by Claudio Bertorelli

A Long Story of Land, Water and Economics
by Pietro Lembi
There are profound ties between Milan and agriculture, which make it a rural city

City in Suspence
by Marco Sammicheli
Between fears and expectations, the Milan that is getting ready for the Expo does not seem to want to take any risks

Light Living
by Alessandra Zanelli

Houses of desires
by Mia Pizzi
Prefabricated buildings offer an extraordinary level of flexibility

An Italian System
by Lina Bonardi