Università di Genova (UNIGE). Dipartimento Architettura e Design (DAD). PhD Program in Architecture and Design (ADD).
Fabio is an architect and PhD Candidate in Architectural and Urban Design at the University of Genoa, Department Architecture and Design (dAD). His research focuses on the spatial and ideological implications of large-scale commercial infrastructures, with particular attention to the supermarket as a paradigmatic device of late modernity.
Articles
Two Terminals, Two Theories
Hiroshi Hara’s Discrete City and Rem Koolhaas’s Bigness represent two contrasting paradigms of mega-scale architecture, exemplified by Kyoto Station (1997) and the unbuilt Zeebrugge Terminal (1989). In S, M, L, XL, Koolhaas (1995) claims that “beyond a certain scale, architecture…