Riccardo Dalisi, born in Potenza on May 1, 1931, until 2007 held the chair of Architectural Design at the Faculty of Architecture of the Federico II University of Naples.
At the same faculty he was director of the School of Specialization in Industrial Design. In the seventies, together with Ettore Sottsass, Alessandro Mendini, Andrea Branzi and others, he was among the founders of Global Tools, a counter-school of architecture and design that brought together the groups and people who in Italy covered the most advanced area of so-called “radical architecture” around the magazines “Casabella” and “Spazio e società”.
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Animated coffee pots
Riccardo Dalisi received the Compasso d’Oro Award for research on the Neapolitan coffee maker in 1981. The coffee makers of the first series were exhibited at the MoMA in New York and, from there, they arrived in various European and American museums. Over the years there have been numerous series: coffee makers, knights, warriors, archers, samurai up to Totocchio (a character halfway between Totò and Pinocchio) that have formed the “Opera buffa of design”…
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Geometria generativa
Let’s start from the square, let’s get it down from its ideality, from its absolute (only mental), let’s visualize a “perfect”, very thin drawing … let’s see it immersed in a “pulsating reality” …
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Compasso
The idea of the compass lends itself to a dynamic decoration that immediately appears interesting, a harbinger of developments. A harmoniously conceived composition, cut in two, opening and closing it produces profound dynamism and curiosity…
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Esagono
It is said that those who manage to come up with something “new” capable of projecting themselves into the future are creative in their field. In a way he creates the future, he helps to determine it. This is enough to grasp the social potential that exists in this term. Creativity is essential for present life, for the happiness of individuals and for the entire community…
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Manipulating chaos
The fruitful impression, mixed with fear, is that we are retracing a path of disorder with a guiding sense that is sometimes incoherent, studded with particular attention and curiosity for the unexpected shapes of the residues that can be metallic or paper or any other material…
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Metodo-non metodo
What to do arises from the encounter, from the freshness of the emotional contact, if we want emotional, from the impetus that the encounter in a certain sense requires. “I know that I do not know”. I don’t know what the momentum will be allowed. All this is by no means improvised, on the contrary, it is extremely “prepared” because one’s imaginative possibilities, one’s experience, one’s status are alerted…
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Volto geometrico
In front of me are two elderly gardeners who are scrambling to rake the cut grass, the bodies with disharmonious proportions, the wrinkles, the sharp shadows that sculpt in different and changing ways, the gestures, the hat and the colorful overalls of one of the two, the checkered shirt, the rakes; it's all a multiple game, ruffled with signs, shapes, colors, shadows...
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