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Architecture and philosophy have engaged with one other, directly, marginally, or just simply implicitly, in the works and discourse of academics, practitioners, and critics, most evidently in architectural modernism, postmodernism, and most intensively in ...
The journeys throughout Europe for attesting the state of contemporary architecture brought the great passionate promoter of the Modern Movement, Sigfried Giedion, also to Stockholm. One month after the opening of the 1930 Stockholm exhibition, generally c ...
Relating the megastructure to the issue of the Commons is a useful exercise to understand the success and the disappearance of what Peter Reyner Banham called the “dinosaurs of the Modern Movement”. All these large-scale constructions suffered the same fat ...
Reproduction can be perceived in two opposite ways from the urban planning point of view, both as a driving force and as a braking weight. Driving force because urban phenomena are precisely produced by re-producing, and especially by reproducing the funda ...
The concept of New Brutalism has been the victim of a series of misunderstandings, myths and aporias.
The initial intentions, devoid of any principle or dogma, have passed from hand to hand. The original definitionâif only one can be identifiedâhas be ...
Company towns are cities founded during the Industrial Revolution by single enterprises operating as employers and landlords, enforcers of security, promoters of social harmony, and providers of services and goods for workers to enhance the living and heal ...
This presentation argues that strategical activity and discourse of the Marshall Plan indoctrinated ‘democracy, cooperation and freedom’ and instrumentalized this discourse in union-founded workers’ housing cooperatives as a means of setting the bottom-up ...
The ongoing ecological crisis is reframing the common binary opposition between architecture and nature and provoking us to ask what kinds of buildings we collectively want to create for the ecosystems that we inhabit. The environment is not a neutral back ...
« Mon grand-père a Alzheimer ». « Tu as perdu ton téléphone ? Cherche-le dans le frigo ». « Tu as oublié ? Alors tu as Alzheimer ! » Nous entendons souvent parler de démence, mais rarement lorsqu’il s’agit de personnes jeunes, diagnostiquées avant l’âge de ...
In this article, we consider the role of landscape as support for an alternative urban mobility scheme and how architecture can help foster a transition towards a low-carbon system. From that point of departure, we trace the genealogical origins of the ter ...
