The Bruna Charriot: Death and Rebirth
Matera is a primordial city that speaks to us of forgotten dimensions, its beauty cannot be understood without also understanding its spirit. Everything is connected. The archaic sacredness is [...]
Meeting with His Royal Highness Carlo, the Prince of Wales
On the occasion of the G7 of Culture held in Florence on 30 – 31 March, Pietro Laureano meets Carlo His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales in the company of Michael Carrington, a member of [...]
Interview with Pietro Laureano Stone Gardens of Matera, a capital for all the south
Alien world, city of origins, antediluvian monster, ecosystem, mirror of the “starry sky”, city plagued by plague, national shame, architectural utopia. One, none and one hundred [...]
The cave landscape code revealed in Matera by 50 world experts
The conference was organized, from 21-23 November 2013, on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the inscription of the “City of Stones” in the UNESCO World Heritage List and [...]
RADIO 3 SCIENCE – Matera, water town
An ecosystem made of stone, light and water, which has been able to guarantee water resources over a centuries in an arid territory. Old solutions that still have much to teach today, as Pietro [...]
Bill Gates finances the smart toilet
The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation launches a $ 500,000 tender to redesign the toilets. In a world situation of water shortages and with over three hundred thousand deaths a day due to lack of [...]
Pietro Laureano at TG1 PEOPLE of 4 October 2011
Pietro Laureano, architect and urban planner, is Unesco’s consultant for arid areas, Islamic civilization and endangered ecosystems. He lived eight years in the Sahara working on the [...]
LA STAMPA – Appeal to the oases that are dying
Taken from: La STAMPA of 05/07/2011 Appeal to the oases that are dying In Africa as in the East have been the cradle and vehicle of civilization. Today deserts are likely to swallow them. The [...]
