To the collective imagination, the architect is one of the "creative" crafts of excellence, together with fellow designers and artists. The product of his intellectual work surrounds us. Interior and exterior architecture is shaping the space where  we live, setting up and transforming our homes, cities and landscapes, answering to human needs and desires, to have a place to live, to seek refuge or to meet others, to work, to have fun, to study. 

In architecture, the quality of the final production depends on the dialogue of numerous subjects: the designer, the client, the producer, the funders , the commission of testing, the suppliers of materials and services, etc. To this intricate operational complexity we add inspirational focus, curiosity and the eye that investigates reality and nature. All of this is encompassed by the most daring designers.

Museum Holon – Rod Arad Architects, Foto credits Yael Pincus

Regarding the creative process, we asked the architect from Bari, Giancarlo Porti, who told us about his relationship with the project and the architecture. "At the base of everything there is education to the  beauty. The beauty is around us, just look for it. In general, apparently "simple" things are the most beautiful, precisely because essential, designing without frills and tinsel is the hardest thing to do. "

During the creative act, the architect takes into account a series of relationships between function, destination, construction and usability of the work. The research for beauty is understood as an experiential component: making use of the space, objects and installations the use of the spaces, objects and installations pleaseant  functional for the user. 

Architect Giancarlo Porti confirms: "In the field of design, interior design, interior architecture or gardens, this education, this research is indispensable in order to design and implement something that is valid and harmonious. I said “design" and not "create" because the architect does not create anything.  Everything starts from the reasoning, from an idea that at first is transferred to the sheet with a sketch (through a process that comes from the brain/ the mind, through the hand ,  and pencil) and then in order to be developed and to obtain an optimal solution, we might do many steps and checks up”.

According to the Architect Porti, every line that we draw on the sheet must always have its own justification, otherwise it makes no sense. Achille Castiglioni often repeated that, to be a designer, you need an innate curiosity and this is a must, because only by carefully observing what surrounds us we can understand certain mechanisms and find inspiration. This could come from a painting by Braque or Veronese, by an artistic floor by Carlo Scarpa, by a boat from the Venetian lagoon or by the dress of Harlequin.

Considering himself a "craftsman architect" for the exclusive use of the pencil for designing, the interior and exterior architect, Giancarlo Porti reveals that "It is not easy to understand when to stop in the planning a space, because the temptation to move forward, to study other hypothesis, other hidden solutions, is always present. Calibrating everything, eliminating the superfluous, designing harmonious relationships well, I think is the basis for a good job. This is what commits me every day of my life... ”