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New York

The elusive certainty

A collection book, with text by Thomas Allocca and evocative photographs by Camilla Francesca Filograna. All the photographs were taken without any aid of drones, from real positions, on the ground and at the top of the skyscrapers. An extraordinary journey through the architecture of the most elusive metropoly in the world. The power of words and images, when together they allow to overpass the limits of an amazing story, such as the one of New York, that just with words could be limited to the imagination of the story teller, and just with images it could be limited to the interpretation of the reader.

June 2018

ISBN 9791220033732

24 x 24 cm  _  80 pages

English text

$ 100

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Krunatun

Corleto Monforte in the Longobard Early Middle Ages  |  Corleto Monforte nell'Alto Medioevo Longobardo

The first historical and non-invasive archaeological research of its kind, aimed at the reconstruction of the early medieval history and architecture of Corleto Monforte, seat of a Longobard County. The town of Corleto Monforte is located in the heart of the National Park of Cilento, Vallo di Diano and Monti Alburni (UNESCO Site since 1998). The research is part of the MWA project, aimed at creating the Krunatun Medieval Museum with full-scale reconstructions.

4 December 2024

ISBN 9791221079937

24 x 24 cm  _  80 pages

English and Italian text

$ 240

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Dragons on the Roof

Wooden Architecture of the Norse World

under writing

Shorts | Poems

Luxury

Luxury. The timeless elegance of the essential.

by Thomas Allocca _ March 2017

Sacred Architecture

Sacred architecture is not just the one of gods, but any building where the elusive becomes a perceivable sublime.

by Thomas Allocca _ April 2017

Whispering to Nature

Just two are the kind of architecture I like to distinguish. The noicy one, and the one that whispers. Sustainibility and unsustainability of architecture should be considered, first of all, according to its capability of whispering to Nature.

by Thomas Allocca _ June 2017

Ancestral Harmony

Quality and beauty are not a matter of money, but of sacred sense for ancestral harmony.

by Thomas Allocca _ April 2018

Earthquakes

Only bad-built houses kill people. Earthquakes can only invite the good ones to dance.

by Thomas Allocca _ December 2018

Where Our Awareness Borns

There is a place in our life, in everyone's life, where for the first time, or more than any other time, we experience the awareness of who we really are and what we were born for. This place is always associated to a forest or a wooden house.

by Thomas Allocca _ March 2019

Architecture of Silence

The truth is never told in a loud voice. It doesn't need to shout. How beautiful and true is the architecture when it tells of silence.

by Thomas Allocca _ March 2020

Creativity

When my creativity has no more solutions, I go out in the woods, and it is there that I find them.

by Thomas Allocca _ October 2021

Sense of Limit

Anything deprives architecture of the sense of limit, it deprives us of the sacred beauty of the ancestral harmony. Skyscrapers do it more than anything else.

by Thomas Allocca _ October 2023

Beauty of the Essential

Whatever religion and god we feel to belong to, what makes our lives sacred is the way we take care of the timeless beauty of the essential, of the sacred archetypes, protecting them from the human ego that tends towards the unnecessary. The more architecture is built on the unessential, the less it tells of our divine origin, but ego.

Sustainable Abuses

Until sustainability will just define the acceptable limits of our abuse on Nature, architecture will continue to produce sustainable abuses with concrete and plastics, considering wood as an alternative, not the solution.

by Thomas Allocca _ September 2024

Daring the Limits

There is no change from just desire. There is no flight in just dreaming to go higher. There is no noble life in just telling of peace, without acting, without being knights of beauty, shields of coherence, rune stones on which to carve stories of honor. Sometimes it's easy, like singing in a choir, almost impossible when we need to turn water into fire. But we come from gods, we were made for miracles. Without any threshold between ours and their spirits, all we need is just dare, dare beyond, beyond our human limits. And so architecture should be, daring human limits for telling noble stories of honor, of sacred beauty, of gods, not of ego and merchants, but knights.

by Thomas Allocca _ July 2025