Inventario 17 - Everything is a Project

The brick is one of the first attempts to understand the earth, the most "materic" among the four elements of our planet, enclosing it in a rational, reproducible and stable form, initially ductile and then static. A brick that precisely for this reason is an object of vernacular, mystical, alchemical power, which crystallizing in a compact and Cartesian matrix possesses the warm, anarchic soul of nature transformed into artefact. Crafted by genealogy, industrial in practice, the brick seems to be the perfect interpretation of the "anonymous" design postulated by Bruno Munari, an exemplary object to which the master could have assigned his "Compasso d'Oro for unknown creators."