Aristide Antonas

By Luca Galofaro, Libria, 2014.

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It is very difficult for me to write a text about Aristide Antonas that can follow a straight line; I could have been eased with the tools provided by the network, creating a hypertext with many links, redirecting to his website, his blog, his Flickr page, to his projects posted on some of the most important web magazines, to his many open dialogs with critics and colleagues. Even if it has been pretty difficult translating all this expressive complexity into a book, now I can say I found it very useful; following all these tracks I was able to find many common ideas and projects that brought me back to various investigations carried out with my office. In a way, I found myself lying on a couch for a psychoanalytic session dealing also with my work as a designer. This is very important for my writing: an exercise I need to understand how architecture can be a metaphor and a tool for political, social and economic change within our contemporary world. 

The idea was to put together a few housing projects, “always conceived as a flatten experience related to a concept of interface where living is projected to a bare experience of self in an invisible – un-existing reality. The dwelling projects give different answers to the same question: where is dwelling driven nowadays?