THE STAR SYSTEM'S PACK OF CARDS

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OMA Rem Koolhaas
Toyo Ito
Zaha Hadid
MVRDV
Massimiliano Fuksas
Renzo Piano
Norman Foster
Peter Eisenman
Frank Gehry
Steven Holl
Jean Nouvel
Herzog & de Meuron
Alvaro Siza
.....
...

These and some other names stand out in very large letters on magazine
covers, most of all the glossy ones; magazines that turned to be a
kind of investment in a world where the number of copies decrease day
after day and the costs, in spite of the contribution of the
advertisers, remain very expensive.[...] The problem is that if you
look in the Italian magazines you get the impression that just what we
call "the star system's pack of cards" really exists. Just the old
same pack of cards that they shuffle and reshuffle to present month
after month a different combination trying to satisfy readers and
advertisers. [...]

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by Gianluigi D'Angelo
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[Douglas Hughes]

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> OMA Rem Koolhaas
> Toyo Ito
> Zaha Hadid
> MVRDV
> Massimiliano Fuksas
> Renzo Piano
> Norman Foster
> Peter Eisenman
> Frank Gehry
> Steven Holl
> Jean Nouvel

> Herzog & de Meuron

> Alvaro Siza
> .....
> ...
> These and some other names stand out in very large letters on magazine
> covers, most of all the glossy ones; magazines that turned to be a
> kind of investment in a world where the number of copies decrease day
> after day and the costs, in spite of the contribution of the
> advertisers, remain very expensive.[...] The problem is that if you
> look in the Italian magazines you get the impression that just what we

> call "the star system's pack of cards" really exists. Just the old