| Cesare Maria Casati was born in Milan in 1936.Together with his son Matteo he owns Studio D.A. in Milan, a cabinet of industrial design and architecture.Since he was a student he had the opportunity of working together with Gio Ponti at very important projects and then, when he started his own professional activity, he had the chance of co-operating with him at the realisation of works as the Quartiere Tessera in Milan, the headquarters of Editoriale Domus, the Hotel Parco dei Principi in Sorrento and the urbanisation plan of Capo delle Perle at Isola dÅfElba. | | |
| This work is a design concept, and a type of un-built architecture. The birdcage is a very interesting theme for me. It is therefore necessary to understand, firstly, 'what is the bird cage?'. Architecture is for mankind, and the birdcage is for birds, and this is due to the fact that architecture is sometimes possessed of the same meaning as the birdcage. What I have developed is not architecture as an object, but architecture which changes in form with the location of its construction. This is the panorama of the location, and its field of view. This is a natural transformation, and in other words, how best to understand nature. The reason being that architecture was originally simply to put artifacts in nature. This work was developed from an experiment in which the image was removed with virtual methodology. In other words, a very provocative experiment of transformation of physical objet into moral objet. In practice, using telescopes and mirrors to depict the surrounding environment, and to eliminate it. In other words, the method of a new architecture eliminating the external image of conventional architecture. A complex concept in which an image is manipulated virtually, while imagining a world of images in another dimension, and creating emotion and sentiment. The mission of architecture was, originally, to protect mankind from nature in the form of wind and rain, as well as to nurture emotion and sentiment, or in other words, to nurture a feeling of happiness and comfort in people. | |
