909 exhibitors in 176,000 square metres. The top appointment, the Lectio Magistralis by Eduardo Souto de Moura,

The opening events on Tuesday 25 with the economic convention and the international press conference.

The 2012 edition of Cersaie, the International Salon of Ceramics for Architecture and Bathroom Furnishings, kicks off in Bologna's trade fair centre from 25 to 29 September. This year, its thirtieth edition, the world's key event for the distribution system, interior designers, architects and installers is sold out, despite the international economic crisis.

The trade fair, promoted by Confindustria Ceramica in collaboration with BolognaFiere and organised by Edi.Cer., occupies an exhibition space covering 176,000 square metres. 909 exhibitors are on show, and for the first time more than 30% are foreigners, from 32 different countries, representing all five continents.

They include 474 manufacturers of tiles (the majority of exhibitors, 52.1%), 292 bathroom furnishings (32.1%) and, in smaller percentages, businesses supplying raw materials, laying equipment, publishing and services.

During the 2011 edition, the five-day event saw 113,165 accesses, with 81,552 visitors including 24,907 foreigners from 147 different countries.

Opening the 2012 edition of Cersaie, on Tuesday 25 September, is the economic convention “Ripartire dal Made in Italy” ("Starting again from Made in Italy"), presented in collaboration with The European House -Studio Ambrosetti, scheduled for 11.00 at the Europauditorium in the Palazzo dei Congressi. Taking partin the event, opened by the Chairman of BolognaFiere Duccio Campagnoli and the Chairman of the Emilia-Romagna Region Vasco Errani, will be the Italy’s Civil Service Minister Filippo Patroni Griffi, the Chairmanof Confindustria Giorgio Squinzi and the Chairman of Confindustria Ceramica Franco Manfredini. Thediscussion, also with the participation of Irene Tinagli, professor of Business Economics at the Carlos IIIUniversity in Madrid, will be chaired by the Director of Class CNBC Italia Andrea Cabrini.

Again on Tuesday 25 there is another of the Salon's key appointments, the International press conference Ceramics of Italy, held at 6.30 pm in the Galleria dell’Architettura – Gallery 25-26. This event will behosting the Chairman of Confindustria Ceramica Franco Manfredini, the Vice Chairman Alessandro Scopetti, Chairman of Promotional Activities and Trade Fairs Vittorio Borelli, the Director of ICE-AgenziaRoberto Luongo, councillor for Production Activities of the Emilia-Romagna Region Gian Carlo Muzzarelli and the Director of Confindustria Ceramica Armando Cafiero. At the end of the conference the Ceramics of Italy Journalism Awards will be giving prizes to members of the international press, and the exhibitions onshow at the Architecture Gallery will be inaugurated.

And this year too there is a rich and varied calendar of events in the Costruire, abitare, pensare (Building, Dwelling, Thinking) cultural programme organised within Cersaie, including appointments with important

international names in architecture and design. This begins on Tuesday 25 with the unusual couple Bruce Sterling and Cini Boeri, two masters respectively of science fiction literature and Italian design: the father ofcyberpunk and the ambassadress of Made in Italy will be discussing matters in the Galleria dell’Architetturafrom 2.00 pm. The following day, Wednesday 26, at 10.00 am, again in the Architecture Gallery, the

appointment is with the lightness and experimentation of Shigeru Ban, the Japanese architect famous for his living solutions adopted following natural disasters. Not to be missed in the afternoon, from 3.00 pm in the same location, the “Poetic Engineering” event with Alberto Meda and his essential design.

We have spoken with Emi Boix, Manager of the Emac, which is a leading company in profiles and trims for wall and floor tiles.

Emac presented his last innovations in Cersaie 2012, the event turned one more year into the point of indispensable meeting for professionals of the ceramic sector, and we could know the last bets of the manufacturers. One of the innovations is the range made by Francis Montesinos, it is a question of a collection of decorative profiles for stairs that it tries to embellish the auction of a very simple and discreet way in the own stairs. Later Emi Boix presented us the stair nosing profile with photoluminiscent strip, ideal for public areas with heavy foot traffic.

The business manager of Levantine, Javier Guardiola close to the rest of the equipment of export; explains us which is his bet in the Italian fair Cersaie 2012. One of the principal aims of Levantine during the last months and during the fair, it is to continue defending the position of our brand, as the company with more experience on the market, in the manufacture, sale and installation of porcelanico of thin thickness. One of the new series treats itself about a white marble on a support of 5 mm.

The second innovation is a product with an effect of mike metallic texture, which remembers us a fabric, called Cosmos, that it serves as decorative complement done on three base colors, with ended in silver and gold, undoubtedly a product of the mas elaborated inside the lineas of thin thickness presented in Italy.

In the fair of Cersaie 2012 we had the opportunity to speak with Juan Vilanova, Comercial Manager of Boing, who presents us his new products with characteristics such as for example originality, flexibility and their material can addapt any color.

Between them we stand out the flexible washbasin with booths and the orbital model, a washbasin with laundry bag to save space in little bathrooms.

The Export Manager of Samo, Giovanni Orlani, shows us some products presented in the fair Cersaie 2012, between them the collection Dolce Vita which has made with classical lines and patterns that recall the past eras with sobriety, it combines Italian style with precious details, obsolete forms, floral screen prints.

Another showed product is more modern with other characteristics destined for anything, to say also it is very resistant and very easy to clean. This is a very functional and practice product that does not exclude elegance and aesthetics.

Enzo Valentini, Export Manager of the group Geromin, shows us some products presented in the fair Cersaie 2012 and he also presents the Industrial Group located in north of Italy close to Venice and dedicated to reproducing compact furniture pieces for kitchen and bathrooms.

The Italgraniti Group was established by merging two ceramic manutacturers (Impronta and Itangraniti), respectivily present on the market since 1975 and 1994, both companies already had a strongly consolidated image in the sector.

We have spoken with Enrico Bolcioni, Area Manager of Italgraniti Group, about the new collections presented in the Fair of Cersaie 2012.

Intermatex is a spanish company placed in Vilarreal, which is dedicated to manufacture, sell and promote a selection of ceramic materials like skirtings, mouldings, borders, etc. as well as handmade terracota flor.

Hugo Beltrán of Intermatex presents the new collection in Cersaie, the Artist Collection with six different colors and using materials as glass, stone, metalics finished..

The Palace of Versailles, in association with Google, has created the Gallery of the History of the Palace. This gallery has been realized by the study Projectiles and his walls are re-dressed in engraved panels of the tecno-surface DuPont ™ Corian®.

The project raises an interior landscape that breaks with that of the palace, always giving continuity to the principal aesthetic and geometric characteristics.

The interior landscape is defined by a system of arrangement in three superposed stratum. The base stratum explains the history and protects the works, the stratum of in way supports the works and the top stratum controls the light

The rehabilitation of the ENSAM (National Top School of Arts and Trades) is an example of architecture in harmony with a historical building since it is Cluny's Abbey. The architect responsible for the rehabilitation, Bernard Desmoulin, has chosen structures of aluminium KAWNEER to achieve a contemporary space that joins perfectly with the existing buildings

Aqua-Sense Graff presents a new sensory experience, a shower system inspired by the sense and luxury that one experiences in the SPA.

Electronic system with ceiling shower head, waterfall wall, wall waterfall and rain shower head, wall mounted RGB LED waterfall and rain shower head!

You can create a very intense precipitation central effect resembles an actual waterfall, the RGB LED changes color, giving diffuse chromatic lines to produce a calming effect in the bathroom environment. The system is controlled by a touch screen with a simple and intuitive interface to control the functions of water, changes color, music and videos.

On October 20 and 21 it was celebrated in the theatre Piccolo Arsenale of Venice, Archives and Exhibitions, the first conference on archives organised by la Biennale di Venezia – ASAC (Historical Archives of Contemporary Arts) in the context of the 13^th International Architecture Exhibition with the collaboration of Direzione Regionale per i Beni Culturali e Paesaggistici del Veneto – Soprintendenza Archivistica per il Veneto.

"You can't hold an exhibition, even one dedicated to the avant-garde, without having recourse to the archives," says Paolo Baratta. "For some time now, the present and the contemporary have been viewed in the light of previous experiences or of history. The conference Archives and Exhibitions, promoted by la Biennale di Venezia – ASAC, more than a technical conference, is therefore aimed at launching an indispensable instrument for cultural organisation, and will be repeated every year at each Art and Architecture Exhibition. La Biennale is thus enriched by a further, ongoing research project."

The conference began with a reflection on the use of archives in the 13^th International Architecture Exhibition, curated by David Chipperfield. The theme of the Exhibition has led the participants to reflect on themes concerning "continuity, context, and memory, and towards shared expectations." The participants were encouraged by the curator to demonstrate the importance of influence and of the continuity of cultural endeavour, to illustrate "common ideas that form the basis of an architectural culture." Many of the architects invited by Chipperfield, in creating their original proposals and installations, have drawn from material from architectural archives.

La Biennale dedicated two days to debate, divided into 5 sessions that include institutional interventions in the morning and two roundtable discussions in the afternoon.

The last session devoted to defining a future work program, which provides for seminar meetings devoted to specific aspects of the preservation and use of the archives of the twentieth century and contemporary age.

The company Regia, founded in 1988, with the development and marketing of complete collections characterized by a fresh, experimental, high-quality design, presents his new products, BIG WASHBASIN and BATIK LIGHT, the first one of them, large above counter washbasin made in lacquered LivingTec®, Tecnoglass and trasparent Vetroghiaccio® in Regia’s color palette, the second, designed by Bruna Rapisarda, is the modular version of the famous Batik, which has been in Regia’s catalogue for now 4 years. Now, with the introduction of many different sizes, Batik can be installed in any space. The starting point of Batik light, was the unique lines of the original version, Batik, in which the top, made of resin or glass, runs along the whole length of the furniture, drawing lines which are concave and convex making the series particularly interesting.

In the photography we can see the model Batik light.

The company Nemo Cassina lighting division has been present on the European market, in the Americas and in the Near and Far East through a carefully selected network of distributors and retailers.The presence of NEMO at this year's Design Village represents a key move for the repositioning and strengthening of the brand's identity. A development that demonstrates Nemo's ability to offer contemporary solutions distinguished by an immediately recognizable and original language.

The versatility of NEMO’s comprehensive catalogue is well represented by the space exclusively dedicated to the brand at the Design Village, and it is reaffirmed in the Cassina area with the newest lamps accompanying the furnishings designed by Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand. Between other offers the company shows products such as "In the wind" designed by Arihiro Miyake, it´s a lamp,whose very name conveys the essence of versatile expressiveness, an evocative object rich in aesthetic and technological content. "Carmencita" designed by Hikaru Mori, winner of the WALLPAPER Best Domestic Design Award for Best Lamp 2012. Carmencita combines craftsmanship and quality. The lamp's twin diffusers are upholstered with Others products presented for example are "Potence Pivotante" designed by Charlotte Perriand (year 1938), "Applique de Marselille", designed by Le Corbusier (year 1954), "Tru", designed by Roberto Paoli and "Nuvola", designed by Mario Bellini,  pioneered the modern trend in illuminating objects made of plastic. With great insight and creativity he designed NUVOLA, a floating mass of light that is capable of shedding light effectively yet unobtrusively. Designed in 1974 for the launch campaign of Pianeta Ufficio – the office furniture system by Mario Bellini for Marcatrè – the lamp has been revisited in terms of size and is now produced on an industrial scale by Nemo.This last product we it can see in the photography of the news.

Last two weeks to visit the Biennale Architettura 2012, the event has reached 100.000 "Likes" on Facebook and 100.000 Followers on Twitter.

This year the Architecture has been once again agreat success of public and has been defined – among others – by the British newspaper The Guardian "the largest party and showcase of architecture in the world"

It is an opportunity to remenber the figures of the Architecture Biennale 2012:

• 69 projects made by architects, photographers, artists, critics and scholars. Many have responded to the invitation of the Director with original proposals and installations expressly created for this Biennale, involving other colleagues with whom they share a Common Ground in their projects. There is a total of 119 participants.
• 55 National Participations exhibited, as usual, in the Pavilions at the Giardini, at the Arsenale and in the city of Venice.
• Four nations participating for the first time: Angola, the Republic of Kosovo, Kuwait  and Peru.
• Argentina exhibiting for the first time in its own pavilion in the newly renovated space of the Sale d’Armi at the Arsenale.
• 18 Collateral Events presented by national and international organizations holding their exhibitions and initiatives in various locations around the city.
• 71 Universities that have joined the project Biennale Sessions, of which 28 Italian and 43 foreign.

On Saturday November 24^th visitors may participate in the "Great closing meeting" to be held in the afternoon and featuring panel discussions to review the aims of the exhibition and the reactions to Common Ground.

On 16 November, Samo welcomed a group of students from the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Trento, who were there to take part in the “Trento Marketing Challenge", a competition among work groups on marketing themes linked to foreign markets, in particular the Russian market.

Samo, recognised as the leading Group in the bathroom furnishings sector and open to frequent experiences in synergy with the world of academia, was pleased to join the "Trento Marketing Challenge" project of the prestigious University’s Department of Economics and Management. The themes developed will be assessed at the end of the competition by Samo’s Marketing Management team and by the teaching staff of the University of Trento; the best two groups will have the opportunity to take part in the final stage of the Eurasian Economics Youth Forum, to be held in May 2013 at the Ural State University of Economics of Yekaterinburg (Russia), and to present their project.

Designed by Felipe Campolino, ECObitat is a modular and transportable housing system which is to provide housing in case of emergency or simply to cover the needs of a not static way of life. Realized with sustainable materials of production and with a design of walls and green modular ceilings. For his construción is used standard OSB sheets, a steel frame make up the structure while SIP panels are used for the walls and floor to defina the rooms and provide support and insulation.

ARCHITECT@WORK was in Belgium (Liège & Kortrijk), The Netherlands (Rotterdam), France (Paris & Lyon), Germany (Düsseldorf, Stuttgart & Berlin) and Switzerland (Zürich),

Now comes with a new event ARCHITECT@WORK in the United Kingdom, will take place on 30^th and 31^st January 2013 in Earls Court, London.

This is a different event in the field of construction because its exclusive character and its focus on innovation. Manufacturers and distributors are responsible for presenting the news, to ensure that it is meaningful innovations, all submissions are first submitted to the approval of a committee of architects and interior architects.

It’s an event the whole year including short seminars on topical subjects with fellow architects willing to share their experience with visitors. Throughout the event can find samples of new materials in the exhibition area of materials.

Addition this event is presented with a new layout designed by Creative Fo(u)r, renowned group of architects. The traditional aisles have been redesigned into lounge areas and visitors are led along a route though uniform modular stands.

BAU 2013 takes place from January 14 to 19, 2013 at Messe München exhibition center. Once again the event is expected to attract around 2,000 exhibitors from more than 40 countries and approximately 240,000 visitors from all over the world. On show at BAU on 180,000 square meters of exhibition space will be architectural solutions, materials and systems for commercial and residential construction and for interior fit-out, for both new-build and renovation and modernization purposes. Every two years this event brings together market leaders from the sector to participate in a unique international display of competence spanning all the construction trades. BAU is also the world´s largest trade fair for architects and construction engineers, attracting around 50,000 design professionals. The exhibits at the fair are organized according to building material and also product and theme areas. Key topics for the future of the industry, such as sustainability and building for life, play an important role in all sections of the exhibition. The program includes high-caliber forums with experts from all over the world, round off this industry showcase. These forums are included under different sections, such as "The Future of Buliding", "Architect and Industry in Dialog", "DETAIL research-Building the future" and "From vision to Reality".